[Sudetenland]

You must mean this record:

1. Led the "Republican Revolution" that put Republicans in control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
   
   
2. Came up with the Contract for America and met the promise that every single provision would see a vote on the floor. Not all of it was enacted, but that was never the promise.
   
   
3. First balanced budget in decades then balanced the budget for four consecutive years.
   
   
4. Forced Clinton to accept tax cuts including the largest capital gains tax-cut in history.
   
   
5. Forced Clinton to accept the huge restructuring of Welfare turning it into "Workfare."
   
   
6. Got the Congressional Accountability Act passed that required Congress to abide by the same laws as private businesses.
   
   You mean that "sordid history where conservatism is concerned?" You mean the fact that of all the candidates, Newt is the ONLY one who has actually accomplished what the others keep claiming they want to do? [Perry and Huntsman have accomplished some of it on a state level]
   
   Yeah, that's really "sordid"--if you are a liberal. /rolleyes

[xzins]

Excellent post, Mein Herr.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Thank you Sud. The attacks on this site against Romney makes it seem as if he had never done anything remotely conservative. These facts need repeating often.

[RIRed]

Very well said. Some people just want a candidate who will repeatedly zing the President. Not that that’s a bad thing, but the goal must be to elect someone capable of accomplishing our policy objectives. No one can deny Newt’s accomplishments as Speaker.

I say that as an undecided who will ultimately vote for the anti-Romney.

[SoConPubbie]

You must mean this record:

No, I meant everything you left out:

1. Individual Mandate.
2. Global Warming
3. TARP
4. Cap-n-Trade
5. “The Era of Reagan is Over!”
6. Scozzafazza
7. Limited Amnesty
8. Voted to create Department of Education
9. Voted for 1986 Amnesty
10. Called Ryan’s plan “Right-Wing Social Engineering”

These are not the actions of a conservative, but the actions of a professional politician.

These are not the actions of a conservative leader who actually believes in the conservative message and the issues involved including a limited federal government, but the actions of a calculating, finger-in-the-wind, politician.

If Newt is the answer, we’re in trouble.