Throughout Newt’s ENTIRE CAREER they have always been accusing him of “just being in it for himself” when he doesn’t bend over to the party line. That’s code for “you didn’t take one for the team and bow to your masters.” Certainly when he criticized Bush, Sr. for breaking his no-new-taxes pledge and certainly now. Yet it’s never been true. Newt has always been sticking his neck out because he wanted conservative principles and values to triumph. He’s a rare, courageous hero and a lifelong champion for the conservative cause. Anyone who ever said anything else is NOT to be trusted.
Did you ever read an account of that - here's a fairly short one below...
Stop and think a minute, and try and picture Boehner or McConnell or most of them, the ceremony to unveil the deal, leaving the Rose Garden, the President, the gathered press, because he couldn't, in the end, deny his conscience. Think of the courage that took, and the dedication to principle. And the hate it must have engendered.
Newt's nobody's fool, and he's about as misrepresented by the press and his former colleagues as Sarah Palin. It is the lot of reformers...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/22/bush-41-gingrich-stood-me-up/