Were you watching back then, or are you simply a product of second-hand liberal brainwashing?
Gingrich terrified the left.
As much as Palin.
They did the same thing then; Gingrich was the pilot project, of destroying a conservative. Republicans scurried away like cockroaches, and Clinton was left unopposed.
Liberals learned from that, the GOP can be rolled.
Gingrich was my Rep. Of course I was watching. Bill Clinton ran circles around him.