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.
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“.........The crowd was appreciative of the man who will likely court their votes this fall, but the NRA faithful became far more animated for Gingrich. With his characteristic flourish for sweeping and historical ideas, the former House speaker laid out a guideline for an international gun-rights movement that the NRA’s Cox called “the Gingrich Doctrine.”
“The right to bear arms comes from our creator, not our government,” Gingrich said. The NRA “has been too timid” in promoting its agenda beyond American borders. The Bill of Rights was not written only for Americans, he said. “It is a universal document.”
“A Gingrich presidency will submit to the UN a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right to every person on the planet.” Every world citizen, he said, “deserves the right to defend themselves from those who exploit, imprison, or kill them.” For his latest big idea, Gingrich earned a standing ovation from the crowd of roughly 5,000.
“We don’t need to go across the planet trying to impose American values, but we do need to go across the planet spreading human values,” Gingrich said. “The Second Amendment is a right for all mankind.”
Many establishment Republicans have openly called for Gingrich to give up his quest. His refusal to submit has been described as egomaniacal and destructive. But in St. Louis on Friday, the man who handily won the South Carolina primary but whose campaign is running on financial fumes, seemed as confident as ever.
“This is still a more open nomination process than anyone in the elite media believes,” Gingrich said.”