Plenty of people down here are wise to Gingrich’s “conservatism”. While I’m sure he’ll get the win, anything other than a good ole fashion butt whoopin would be a failure for Newt, in my opinion.
We’ll see how it all shakes out in the next three weeks.
You’re 24 years old. You were 11 the last time Newt was actually in the House. You don’t seem wise about him, you seem ignorant about his history. Newt was the leader of the hard-line conservative Republicans in the 1980s. Newt pushed the Republican platform further to the right when people like Bob Dole wanted to raise taxes and not make a pronounced issue out of the Soviet Union, for fear of losing American liberal votes. Newt fought against and publically embarrassed Bush, Sr. when Bush, Sr. reneged on his campaign promise not to raise taxes. Newt was reelected in Georgia for 2 decades. Newt educated a generation of conservatives through his political action committee GOPAC and led them to take over the House in 1994 when the Republicans hadn’t held the house for 40 years. Even Dick Cheney said he never thought Newt could pull it off. Newt presided over the most conservative House as Speaker that anyone in modern times can remember. He was despised by liberals and viciously attacked throughout his career as Speaker. His fellow Republicans more often than not cowardly caved in and threw him under the bus. They then went on to go on a spending spree under Bush in the 2000s and eventually get voted out of the House in a Democrat sweep in 2006.