Newt supported Global Warming cap and trade with Pelosi (even though he denies it), supported ultra-liberal Dede Scozzafava over a conservative in the NY23 district, and advocated allowing lawbreakers (illegal immigrants) to remain in this country. Now taking an no-adultery pledge...smacks of more political opportunism. I’m not on Newt’s bandwagon...surely I would vote for him over Obama, but I would also choose to have gonorrhea over voting for Obama.
Of course, I would vote for Newt over Obama as well, but I agree with you that we should not give Newt a free pass for all of the wrong-headed positions he has taken in the past and continues to take in the present (most recently, for example, stating that he would lean towards granting clemency to the convicted spy Jonathan Pollard).