As I have said, he endorsed Scozzafava over a genuine conservative. He’s supported the individual mandate, various versions of cap-and-trade, and many other Big Government policies. It was the conservatives in Congress who threw Newt out of the Speaker’s chair. He’s an open admirer of Woodrow Wilson and TR, and he says the best president of the 20th century was FDR. (Any conservative knows it’s Reagan.)
It’s remarkable how similar Newt’s actual record is to that of Mitt Romney. So if you don’t consider Mitt a conservative, you can’t rationally consider Newt one. And if you do consider Mitt a conservative, then you have no idea what a conservative is.