Santorum’s success only illustrates what an unelectable candidate Mitt truly was.
The establishment loves mitt, hates newt.
Are you old enough to know what he did while in Congress?
Newt has a trophy case full of conservative achievements that Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney couldn’t even dream about.
Newt took back the House as the public face of the Republican party in 1994 after 40 years out of power. That came with enough momentum to keep them in power for 12 years.
Newt fought behind the scenes throughout the ‘80s against people like Bob Dole, who he called the “tax collector for the welfare state,” to keep the Republican party platform conservative, anti-tax and anti-communist.
Newt stood up to Bush Sr.’s pledge to raise taxes, publically denouncing his plan and drawing the ire of the party elites. The desire to punish him for this courageous act of speaking conservative truth to Republican power remains one of the top reasons the party has tried to sabotage his presidential campaign.
Newt forced Clinton to pass balanced budgets and welfare reform. He paid down the national debt rather than add to it.
Newt’s stewardship over the government’s purse strings coincided with a national economic boom.
Newt came one vote away from passing a balanced budget amendment that would have prevented the entire fiscal crisis we’re in now.
Newt sent partial-birth abortion bans to Clinton which were vetoed, but laid the groundwork for them to be passed under Bush.
Newt along with Reagan are the two great conservative leaders of the last 30 years. They didn’t just talk on TV or the radio, they got concrete results and made things happen, facing up to all of the spiteful and hateful scrutiny that comes from the opposition when you take bold stands like that.
Newt is a man who stood for the same conservative principles for decades and has the record to back it up.