Look at the what the vaulted revolutionaries he brought in with him and what they turned into. All our old hero's, you know, Boehner, Armey, Haley Barbour, to name a few.
We need someone who can go mano-e-mano against Obama wielding the power of the purse who has a warriors demeanor and cannot be accused of being a racist....
Col. Allen West is the Answer....
RE: Col. Allen West is the Answer....
He’s a good man. Unfortunately, he didn’t even win his own election after one term.
I know of all of the faults and warts of GoodNewt/BadNewt, but it is inaccurate to blame this on him. From the historical record, with links ......
As a matter of fact, for the record, Newt was kicked out by the Moderates(!) ....
"There is no doubt in my mind he had the votes to win the Speakership, but I'm not sure he had the votes to govern," said Kenneth M. Duberstein, a former White House chief of staff ... .... from the article (drum roll please) .....
"What I believe desperately needs to take place is to heal the alienation that currently exists," said Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a ‘conservative’ football Hall of Famer who announced his own challenge today to Mr. Gingrich's second-in-command, Representative Dick Armey of Texas.
The heart of the Speaker's problems, many Republicans said, is that he had never made an adequate adjustment from being the minority to being the majority, from intense backbench opposition to governing.
The hard-edged partisan bite that worked for Mr. Gingrich in the minority came across as stridency in power, Republicans said. ''Whenever we try to go on the offensive, the White House tries to make Newt the issue and whenever that happens we lose,'' said Peter T. King, a Republican from Long Island.
...... AND the "piece de resistance" ...
When Mr. Gingrich allowed Representative John R. Kasich of Ohio, the budget committee chairman, to try to rally House Republicans around a conservative blueprint for more than $100 billion in new savings, the moderates refused to back it.