Your error is twofold:
1 Santorum has an 83% conservative rating compared to Gingrich’s 90% (Lifetime)
2 You are the one incorrectly stating that Gingrich is not conservative (despite the obvious facts that he is), and indeed more conservative than Santorum.
I’ve never said that Santorum wasn’t a conservative. It is you have said Newt is not conservative and that Santorum is more so.
All clearly false from the facts above.
At the end of his legislative career (1998), Gingrich's lifetime rating was 90%. At the end of his legislative career (2006) Santorum's lifetime rating was 88.1%.
For some reason you want to compare a single, cherry picked year of Rick's career to Newt's overall, lifetime. Why are you so resistant to comparing apples to apples?
Certainly, Newt comes out with a higher (by 1.9%) rating, and I've never said he wasn't conservative. What I have said, and will continue to say is that since the end of their legislative careers, in their public pronouncements and actions, Rick has been more consistently conservative in his public actions and pronouncements.