From the Washington Post:

Ed Gillespie is one of the heroes of the 2010 election cycle. He built American Crossroads and American Crossroads-GPS, which raised more than $60 million to help fuel Tuesday’s GOP takeover of the House, and aggressively supported Tea Party-backed Republicans in tight Senate races ($7.3 million to support Ken Buck in Colorado, $3.9 million to support Marco Rubio in Florida, $3.1 million to support Rand Paul in Kentucky, $5 million to support Sharron Angle in Nevada, and $1.3 million to support Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania). And the Republican State Leadership Committee Gillespie established was integral to the GOP’s historic 682-seat gain in state legislatures across the country that secured Republican control of 19 chambers and counting.

So it was unfortunate to see Sarah Palin (whom I greatly admire) criticize Ed this morning as “out of touch” because he said in a Fox News interview on Election Day that a new GOP House would “try to repeal those parts of the health-care reform bill, the Obamacare, that have caused premiums to go up and have shifted people out of their insurance they like into a public plan.” On his website, David Frum stoked the fire, declaring that “Gillespie has been warning against trying to repeal the Democratic health reform outright” and said this was a sign that after having “refrained from direct confrontation with Tea Party radicalism” Gillespie “may be getting ready to rumble.”

All of this is dead wrong.

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