Obviously the same disease, that has infected many a FREEPER, vis-a-vis Reagan, has now also infected many a FREEPERs memory and they ( you too ) are spouting myths, instead of fact.
So, yet again, I guess it's time for this history lesson, which I do jope all of you mythographers finally take to heart!
All of you LOVE to point out things about Rudy, which make him undesireable to you and completely shut out the same and WORSE defects that Newt has....in SPADES!
Newt has been married THREE times and divorced TWICE! His FIRST wife had been his HIGH SCHOOL MATH TEACHER. He handed her divorce papers, in the hospital, where she was due to CANCER.
His second wife ALSO got divorce papers, in the hospital! See a pattern emerging here?
His third wife was a GOVERNMENT secretary, whom he was diddling, in his OFFICE, on GOVERNMENT TIME, at the same time he was excoriating Bill Clinton for using Monica as a humidor, in the OVAL OFFICE.
Newt's negatives are the same or greater than Hillary's! And that includes Dems, GOPers, and Undies view of him.
He caved and caved and then caved some more, to the Clintons, when Speaker and has now been traveling around the nation WITH Hillary, giving her aid and cover;. just as he did for Bill.
Newt is and always has been a tree hugger/quasi GREENIE. If that isn't bad enough, not only is he crazy about THE THIRD WAVE, but has made many a speech about this new agey, overlaid with MARXIST cant book, telling everyone to read it! The Tofflers owe him some money for that...LOL
This book, the third in a series of three, is so far off into some weirdo combination of Scientology, Marxism, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, with a bit of extreme globalism, that NO Conservative of any stripe should find anything palatable in it; let alone espouse its "philosophy" ; not to mention pimp it.
And then we come to Newt's latest incarnation....the clone of Mario Cuomo's HAMLET ON THE HUDSON act. No, he isn't running; Newt isn't even thinking about running..........yet. He wants to spread his ideas and "wisdom" to both parties...TO BOTH PARTIES AND TO ALL CANDIDATES AND POLITICIANS! Perhaps, he's said, he'll begin to contemplate "thinking" about whether or not he'll enter the primary in September. Ooooooooppppppppps.....now he's moved that up to next OCTOBER!
Now, the problem with waiting that long to contemplate and cogitate, is that by September or October, ALL of the BIG MONEY, all of the political backing, and ALL of the best of the very BEST guys and gals one needs to form one's personal team and teams on the ground in not only the front loaded states ( Iowa, N.H. and probably N.Y., California, Florida, Texas, and N.J.; to list but a few ) will be all gone! And NO, nobody is going to defect and join Newt, after most of 2007 working for somebody else!
If he is THIS stupid, which I don't believe he is, to actually play this game, all I can say is...some "cream of the crop".....................NOT!
What I believe this coy ploy of Newt's is, is to keep his name out their, making people want to have him on their radio and T.V. shows, more than usual. It might also be a ploy to catch the eye of the major GOP candidates, in the hope for a VEEP slot/place in their cabinet. But no matter WHAT this is, it is really STUPID! Don't talk about Newt's supposed " brainpower"; that now looks like pretty low wattage.
Was Newt great with the CWA? Absolutely!
Was he tenacious in shoving the Welfare Reform Bill under Slick's nose, THREE times? Absolutely!
Are there a few other good things he did as Speaker? Absolutely, but he left that job under a very large black cloud and slunk away, his tail between his legs.
Romney isn't a RINO and neither is Rudy; both are Republicans and Rudy has far MORE Conservative attributes and positions than those blinkered are willing to see.
Newt was a GREAT back bencher; once in power, he had NO idea how to handle it and allowed himself to be rolled...EARLY on, with the closing of the government at Christmas time; yet, with NO plan B and absolutely NO comeback. That is NOT leadership.
Whoa! I have GOT to save that rant about Newt somewhere, nopardons. Well done.
I remembered a lot of that about Newt and knew that he'd become Hillary's new best friend and they were working on projects together, but I'd never heard of this The Third Way deal and will have to google up some info on that. You're right - it sounds anything BUT conservative.
Gosh - and to think so many one issue freepers were pushing his candidacy. Now I know why Fox showed a poll of Republicans and over 60% said they wouldn't vote for Newt. Clearly people have paid more attention to his antics over the years than I have and been quite displeased with what they've seen.