There was far MORE, in the GOP wins of '94, than just the CONTRACT WITH AMERICA. You, obviously, will fall for a smooth talker, no matter WHAT is being " sold " and the devil take the high road. Consequently, with blinkers still firmly in place, you tune out/ignore everything else, which doesn't validate your own position. Shame on you.
Clinton and the Dems, which you either don't recall, didn't pay attention to at the time, refuse to even talk about, because it completely undoes your narrow position, had done so much to anger the populace, by the election of '94, that they, of course, took up the GOPers and the CONTRACT WITH AMERICA helped too, but was not, NOT , the sole, only, one reason that the GOPers won big in that election.
And, whilst we're at it, why don't you just admit that you're a fringer, don't 't like the GOP, and are debating from your own, dreary, little agenda, without being factual, temperate, cogent, and unemotional.
As to not liking the GOP, I've been there. I was a city committee chairman for the GOP in a city of 100,000 people. I've seen how the "system" works (or more accurately does NOT work). My bet is that the "backroom deals" you think you know about, I have actually participated in. I'm not some unlearned, inexperienced know-nothing.
As to having "blinders" on, I would submit that continuing to support a party or its candidates for no other reason than they are slightly better than the other choices is a long-term recipe for disaster. You can't win if you play the game by their rules, np. And you are most definitely losing. Look at where the GOP has gone since Reagan left office and then say with a straight face that it is a "conservative" bunch.