Wow, the dude you ripped on had a very common opinion on Newt Gingrich and his baggage. How did you travel down your little ignorant road to THAT comment?
Newt has a trophy case full of conservative achievements that 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.
He fought behind the scenes throughout the ‘80s to keep the Republican party platform conservative, anti-tax and anti-communist.
He 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 power remains one of the top reasons the party has tried to sabotage his presidential campaign.
He forced Clinton to pass balanced budgets and welfare reform.
His stewardship over the government’s purse strings coincided with a national economic boom.
He came one vote away from passing a balanced budget amendment that would have prevented the entire fiscal crisis we’re in now.
He sent the 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.
While they were doing that, Romney was denouncing Ronald Reagan’s record, refusing to sign onto Newt’s Contract with America, and losing elections badly.
But the DNC-GOP-e talking point ventriloquists don’t want to talk about all that.