F. A. HAYEK DESCRIBED NEWT GINGRICH OVER 50 YEARS AGO

In 1960, Hayek claimed that American conservatives were really only concerned about power and a former colleague of Gingrich's supports that claim:

Esquire’s John Richardson notes that despite Gingrich’s apocalyptic rhetoric, when encountering radical conservative activists, Gingrich “over and over again…takes the long view and becomes the very soul of probity.” “I wouldn’t be able to describe what his real principles are,” former Republican Rep. Mickey Edwards said of the former speaker. “I never felt that he had any sort of a real compass about what he believed except for the pursuit of power.” (h/t Alex Seitz-Wald at Think Progress)