I suspect that Newt and many others just went along with the AGW hoopla simply because they didn't give it much thought -- after all, everyone seemed to agree. I'm kind of hoping that this will make a lot of them take a hard look at it and (sort of like reformed drunks or ex-smokers) turn into real crusaders (if you'll excuse the expression -- LOL!) against it.
It has to be pretty hard to do a U-turn on something you've just accepted and they'll want to take at least a bit of time to adjust. Hopefully, then they'll be all fired up and righteously infuriated at having been played for suckers!
Others, of course, were in on the scam (or at least stood to benefit to the extent that truth didn't matter) and just wanted to play the rest of us for suckers. Hard to tell who's who yet!
Yeah, our conservatives can (or could be) paid off just as easy as the democrats on this one. All they would have to do is sit back and shut up. We’ll wait a minute, isn’t that what they are doing now? (;-)