The only knock on Newt is that he sometimes TOOK positions that varied from conservative orthodoxy (Individual mandate; Scozzafava; global warming, etc). Part of the reason for this is that he is a professor. Professors come out of the academy where ideas are freely floated. Sometimes a bad one is expressed.
The point is this: When Gingrich was in power, he overthrew the Establishment and GOVERNED as a conservative across the board. As the saying goes, watch what he did, not (so much) what he said.
Romney is Establishment to the core and he governed as a doctrinaire leftist. In the unlikely event he won in November, he wouldn’t be two millimeters better than Obama and his tenure would give way to a Dem congress and a Dem President that would finish the job Obama started.
I hope Newt pulverizes the greasy flipflopper tonight.
..amen--the welll-lubricated weather vane...
Me too...and knocks that odious wooden smirk off his faux-looking face.
Also, I agree with your analysis of the Gingrich positions that people don't like...sometimes a bad idea is expressed, sometimes there's an endgame that never happens, and he was also not in a position of power or influence in any way at the time. But he has shown a willingness to analyze and re-analyze things before he acts, and his record is fantastic.