Tell me, did the party become more, or way less conservative after Newt’s departure? Newt delivered a republican congress for the first time in forty years. Many of the same republicans that kicked him to the curb delivered the congress & the presidency to the dems just years later. Who has the better track record? Newt, or the ones that kicked him out?
Spot. On.
Gingrich was the one, the left perfected the politics of personal destruction upon.
Gingrich was the one, the GOP perfected ... running in abject terror away from, precisely when he (and America) needed them most, upon.
Gingrich is the moment, RINO’s happened.
Weeniehood is not a winning strategy.
Newt's track record as a conservative since he left office, in part:
* Taking millions from Fannie and Freddie
* Supporting massive boondoggles related to ethanol subsidies and tax credits
* Pushing an individual mandate in health care, including through his for-profit Center for Health Transformation that has Big Pharma and huge health insurers pay very large "membership fees" for access to Gingrich
* Calling Paul Ryan's plan "right-wing social engineering"
* * OPPOSING efforts in 2005 to strengthen regulation of Fannie and Freddie -- one of the key failures that led to the housing crisis and the economic crash
* As a former Professor of Environmental Studies and one of the first to push global warming legislation in the 1980's, still supporting man-made global warming junk science in 2009
* Going on an Education Tour with Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan to support Obama's education policies
* And, in office, buying off Clinton's veto on welfare reform with billions and billions in NEW entitlement spending, such as federally funded childcare and new Medicain eligibility.
Is that the record of a strong conservative? No, it's not. And that's just a partial list.
So let's dispense with that issue and talk about whether Gingrich will be the least bit accountable to conservatives once elected.