The Left is really giving him the Richard Nixon treatment. Nixon was a strong anti-communist in the 1940s and 1950s. He was an important part in the Alger Hiss case. The Left never forgot that. In the end, the Left used a third-rate burglary to bring Nixon down. They had to treat Watergate as the worst crime ever committed against humanity, but in the end Nixon resigned and the Left was happy.
Gingrich is the guy who gave Bill Clinton the most trouble. The Left has never forgotten that. They will work tirelessly to bring him down. Taxes? Bills at Tiffany's? Whether these are important or not does not matter to the Left. They will use any tool they can find to destroy Gingrich.
They do the same to Palin, of course (because of Trig) but their attacks against her have a harder time sticking because she doesn't make the mistakes that Gingrich does.
“The Left is really giving him the Richard Nixon treatment.”
I agree. Used to be a BIG Mr Newt fan, emphasis on used to be. Richard Nixon could have discovered a cure for cancer, adopted every orphan in the world and opened a shelter for baby chick and ducks and the MSM would have still treated him like Adolph Hitler. I see the same thing happening with Gingrich.
Not only he accomplished his Contract With America - had House vote on all 10 items in the Contract and passed 6 of them into law, including welfare reform, and set the budget "compromise" that eventually led to the short-lived budget surplus (for which Clinton with the media's help took credit), but when the threatened "old guard" in the Senate combined with the jealous and inexperienced "young turks" in the House to question his leadership, he had the courage (rare in politicians of either party) to step aside, leave Congress and get his personal life together (finalize divorce and remarry) and put his political principles into practice in private life.
Seems that he has (quietly) done more for conservative causes since he left Congress than the Congress under the "compassionate conservative" - his successor Dennis Hastert and President Bush - even when they had overwhelming legislative majority, which he didn't have.
See the excerpt and the link to the WSJ article Gingrich's Secret Weapon: Newt Inc. in
Jackie Gingrich Cushman : Setting the Record Straight (about my dad's first marriage) - FR, 2011 May 15
Direct link to WSJ article: Gingrich's Secret Weapon: Newt Inc. - WSJ, by Neil King Jr. and Patrick O'Connor, 2011 May 09