I only read the first page of responses. Boy is it confusing:
1) YES YES YES
2) YES YES YES
3) YES YES YES
4) YES YES YES
5) YES YES YES
6) Are you nuts?
7) YES YES YES
8) YES YES YES
9) YES YES YES
10) Hell no!
11) YES YES YES
12) YES YES YES
13) YES YES YES
14) YES YES YES
15) Pelosi’s whipping boy???
16) ...
well you get the idea.
Can someone explain this to me? He’s either savior or satan, he can’t be both.
The short explanation is, Newt cozied up to the environazis and not everybody forgives him for it.
Personally, I think it was a strategic decision. If he was a MMGW true-believer, he never would have started the “Drill Here, Drill Now” campaign. So what if he sat on a park bench with Pelosi for a picture? He was able to effectively force the issue of domestic drilling as a private citizen. That he’s seen as both a concerned environmentalist and a drilling proponent works in our favor. And this is an issue we’re going to need to own in two years if we’re going to have any shot in 2010.
It’s time for Newt to bring his stuff back to the big leagues, post-haste. Before this gets out of hand and we’re a permanent underclass (which we’re pretty damn close to being already).