[tacticalogic]

Newt wrote a platform and shamed republicans into supporting it. It was enormously successful politically. Republicans threw Newt and his platform into the garbage. Americans threw Republicans into the garbage.

He might have shamed Republicans into supporting it. To the degree that it was republican, republicans would have supported it regardless of what Newt said.

[DManA]

I was speaking of the Contract with America. I bet not 1 in 10 Republican senators and representatives heve ever read the "official" platform.