Gingrich was “Tea Party” before Tea Party was born. It is a Johnny-Come-Lately to conservative politics. Newt was right there with Reagan then continued the fight for another decade after Ronnie was gone.
The Far Right just keeps moving the goal line as to what a “conservative” really is.
I like Bachmann but if her tactic only muddies the water and takes the heat off Obama I like her less.
Maybe you haven’t been paying enough attention to Newtie over the last 10 or so years.
Gingrich supported the individual mandate, supported versions of cap and trade, has supported various Big Government programs. He has a very similar record to Romney’s. Remember, it was conservatives who threw him out as Speaker.
Nobody is moving the goal posts, and you know that. It;s just that Newt’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric.
I give him a lot of credit for leading the GOP to a BIG victory in 1994 (running, BTW, as out-and-out conservatives), but he didn’t really deliver much for us.
Newt’s overall record says that he’s a progressive, not a conservative, and his praise of FDR, TR, and Wilson (on foreign policy, anyway) backs that up.