But Newt Gingrich has had a hand with today's brand of "right wing" conservatism in America. They thought they found a formula of electoral success coupled with the explosion of talk radio in America peddled by the late Rush Limbaugh that pretty much blamed everything that's gone wrong with America on those dumb, elitist, Liberals and commie DemocRats with an emphasis of them being rats lol...The Republicans drive to the angry white man shtick has enabled the GOP to wrestle away the remaining conservative democrats (holdovers) the Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) towards the Republican party. When Newt was in power he was responsible for finally defeating the Democratic stranglehold in House congressional seats and control of the House. Some of the more astute American political observants on this forum must remember that Newt's midterm success that brought Republicans in control of Congress made him the House Speaker where he famously battled with "Slick Willy" a.k.a. Bill "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky" Clinton.@siegecrossbow Sir that generation of GOP leaders you can reason and bargain with, they're realist, the current one is of psychopath nature. Like @KYli had mention drinking to much Amerika cool aid can damage the brain..lol