Has anyone asked why Newt is hated by other members?
Could it be as Speaker he did not tolerate deviation from the course as set in the Contract With America?
What did the House Republicans do after they pushed Newt out the door? Did they get more conservative or did they go on a spending spree?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort for a balaned budget and won?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort to reform an entitlement and won?
Who is the only candidate who led the effort to enact term limits and won in the House?
You can tell me Newt is mean, you can tell me Newt said X or Y or Z, but I will go by Newt’s RECORD as an elected member of the House.
Ding~! Ding~! Ding~! I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER~!
He supports BIG government with his BIG ideas
He supports mandated health reform
He believes in global warming
He supports planned parenthood funding
He used his position to consult and advise big government programs.
He is an adulterer, not once but three times
I am still looking for a conservative candidate. Right now Newt is the only clown on the bus that at least talks a good game. When the circus starts again in January 2013 it's just a matter of who the new Ring Leader will be at this point. They are all Beltway Insiders looking to make their fortunes bigger.
I just plagiarized your response.
I copied and forwarded it to everyone on my email acct. list.
I'm ready for someone who will take action, and based on his record, Newt is a proven leader.
That is a very good post, Erik! Thanks!
You know, that's a durn good point.
We hear two things against Newt all the time:
1) He was so horrible he had to be relieved of command in the House by the "good Republicans," and
2) He's just another "establishment, political insider" that the GOP "leadership" is trying to select for us.
Yet, has anyone else noticed how fundamentally in discord these two theses really are?
Let's see, Newt is an insider - but he was undercut and removed from his leadership position by political insiders like Dick Armey in the House. Republicans in the House who then went on the basically reverse the conservative course of the Republican Congress by jumping on board with new "entitlement" programs and "reaching across the aisle" to the Democrats more and more often and extensively.
When Newt was there, the GOP held the course. When Newt was gone, they quickly folded back into the Party of Socialism Lite.
It sounds to me like Newt was actually removed from his House leadership position because he was getting in the way of the go-along-to-get-along mentality of the GIOP establishment.