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Contrast this with Newt, who as recent as a few months ago agreed with the odious big-government, unconstitutional Obamneycare edict to force everyone to buy health insurance. Does that sound like someone with small government principles to you?

Your comment is incomplete. This is exactly what Gingrich said:

I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay- — help pay for health care. I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond....snip...
In, in the first place, Obama basically is trying to replace the entire insurance system, creating state exchanges, building a Washington-based model, creating a federal system.

Two things about what Gingrich believes:

1. People shouldn't get a free ride that enables them to walk up to a hospital, get care, and walk away leaving the bill to everyone else.

2. States (not the fed) should require everyone to have health insurance or to post a bond, so that people can't just leave their hospital bill to everyone else.

Both of those principles are conservative: (a) you pay for yourself and (b) those requirements should come from your state.

I don't believe that people should be able to walk away from their legitimate bills. That fact does not mean that I support ObamaCare.

Why should your state be allowed to require you to post bond or have insurance: because most hospitals operate with state aid accounting for some of their funding.

So, if you're going to use my gas pump in your car, you're going to have a valid credit card that's verified before that pump begins to pump gas. Makes perfect sense to me.