When Speaker 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.
It was the so-called moderates who pushed Gingrich out of Congress. He left because too many Republicans refused to stop eating off the body of Uncle Sam.
Whole ball o'wax.
He's scarring the bejeebers out of the Establishment Republicans - who have ruled like the aristocracy of old England for decades.
Newt want's to finish what Reagan hoped to do. But Reagan was loaded down with the Elites, from his VP (GHW Bush, to appointment foxes, etc.
Newt was there. and when he became Speaker in the mid 90's, he had a good start on reestablishing and pushing through Reagan's goals - but he was ONE MAN against the hoard. They turned on as they are now - to protect their hides and powere, not our country and our Constitution.
Newt had the Socialists, their lackeys the MSM AND the Republican Elite (no better than the Socialists in their quest for power and control) coming at him like the Hounds of Baskerville.
Newt has a better chance now than ever to carry out Reagan's goals. Newt saw what happened when Establishment Foxes were forced into Reagan's cabinet...as fro his VP.
Newt will not let this happen. He has signaled he wants Col. West for his VP and has that Sarah would be great in energy - like Energy Sec. In addition, he has said: "I will not keep ONE holdover!" (That is what threw the monkey wrench in GW's way. Too many holdovers from the Clinton house and they sabotaged right from day one.)
And what is the common denominator of Newt and the people he is looking at?
They are "US." They were born in modest means families and became who they are through their own effort. (Newt lived with his mother over a gas station when the Sr. Gingrich was in Korea. West was raised in a middle income family in the south, Sarah was raised by school teacher parents. They don't see themselves as 'heirs apparent to rule." They love this country and want to 'serve', not rule.)
Superb post sir. Nice to see the forest instead of the veins of the leaves of the trees. Your whole ball o’wax is a very good strategic overview.