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It took them awhile, but the left figured out how to beat Newt. It beat them on the government ~~shutdown~~ paid vacation. It drove his approval rating as speaker down into sub Bush levels, chased him out of the Speakership and demoralized him enough that he also left Congress. It doesn't matter whether the left's allegations were accurate. It matters whether they were effective or whether Newt was able to overcome them. He wasn't able to. Since the left started beating him Newt has periodically sucked up to various libs and liberal causes in that repeated RINO delusion that they'll cut him slack in the future. The historian needs to check that worked for McCain. He also has pushed big government and big business solutions to problems more conservatively solved with smaller, freer methods. Newt can't run on just part of his legacy any more than Romney can.