Thank you so much for the ping, and sdf for the post.
(Snark free as opposed to the Guardian version, posted by Steelfish.)
This is classic Newt, forever. The big thinker and hell of a task master, both of which repelled the likes of Tom Coburn, Cantor, McConnell, McCain, Graham, Santorum and the rest of the Establishment.
Sadly, the voters had no use for the ONLY American the manipulative GOPE and the Marxists in power together, actually feared.
We have given ourselves over to the socialist instead, and all is well. /s