This "pledge" is oh-so-tacky and even faintly sicko. Newt should have left it alone....though I understand his reasoning...you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
In fact, the entire GOP primary process is beginning to make me ill. I'm tuning out the debates, the pundits, the sound bites and the bickering personal jabs.....preferring to read the news and analysis from posters I trust right here on FR.
By the time a GOP candidate survives as THE primary winner, that person will have been battered and bruised so much by fellow candidates and by purists and/or one-issue pressure groups that general-election foe Obama will look like Elsie Dinsmore by comparison.
(Elsie Dinsmore.... a "goody two-shoes" young heroine in a late 1800's series of children's books).
Leni