A lot of us knew who Newt was. He is a whore and has been for many years.
Anyone who believed differently was doing so out of desperation.
ugh, nothing Newt does surprises me.
Many Newt supporters in the recent primary knew that. However, given a choice of the phenomenally weak Massachusetts liberal describing himself as "severely conservative" (the only person alive who would use those words about himself; I'm "responsibly conservative", for example), or a known sleaze who could at least be trusted to act conservative most of the time, many of us were willing to settle for Newt. Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum, and many others ranked above Newt, but as those candidates dropped out or failed to announce, we tried to find any possible option. As happens in at least two-thirds of elections, the GOP leadership won the primaries, and America lost, we couldn't even get Newt as the nominee, not when it was Romney's turn.