Great points!
And to think of the struggle the country’s endured, the Tea Party surge with such high hopes in 2010 for the 2012 election — and then end up with a NEWT?
But because Newt is NEWT!?, the electorate will fall out of “love” with his motormouth fast, and all his baggage will not even have time to drop before they remember how disgusting he is.
I think it’s highly likely that Newt will self-destruct because he simply cannot keep his mouth shut.
However, we won’t know till we know.
Perry is the better man.
He led us to the promised land with soaring rhetoric once before.
However, he squandered all that because he's a better candidate than he is when he actually has to do the day-to-day work of leading. It bores him. He lacks focus.
Ask some of the congressmen who tried to work with Newt when he was speaker. Ask Tom Delay, who got very frustrated with Newt's inability to concentrate and get the work done.
Newt ended up quitting. He will not be a good president but he's a thousand times smarter than Obama. And a thousand times a better person. But, then, who isn't?
Obama has a similar attention deficit disorder to Newt.
If Newt manages to hold onto this lead he's built and gets the nomination, he can beat Obama.
Then we better all pray that Newt has matured enough to focus in office and not wander off into the horse latitudes. He was unable to work successfully with his own party when he was speaker.
I hope that Newt has changed and matured. I see no signs of it.