Where did this stupid notion come from that Newt is undisciplined? From when he was banging that hill staffer during Klinton’s impeachment? Or is this just Beltway nonsense?
From his own lips bttt
By "banging that hill staffer" you mean "dating his future (and current) wife Callista he married two years later, after leaving Congress and finally divorcing his chain-smoking 'sick' wife after having been legally separated from her since 1987 and financially supporting her all that time, despite living separately and her threats of derailing his potential political career by giving personal interviews to reporters" - is it "that hill staffer"?
Ref: Newt Gingrich describes importance of faith in political decisions - FR, post #69, posts #72, #73, #77, 2011 October 31
Newt refuses to defend himself or discuss his personal life or dish the dirt on the former wife (Marianne saw him only as her personal meal ticket on a gravy train) and instead asked for forgiveness for more than his "fair share" of his real and imagined transgressions (failed marriages are not always man's fault, and it usually takes more than one person to screw up a marriage).
Once he left the Congress, he moved on to a more productive personal life and relationship with God (including converting to his wife's lifetime religion) and building from scratch several small businesses and conservative organizations, and supporting other conservative coalitions.
We may or may not like his strategy or methods (they may not seem "pure" or conservative enough for us) but they've been mostly more effective against relentless liberals / "progressives" legislative and judicial assaults on our freedoms than decade of leaderships of Speaker Hastert and President George W. Bush.
Newt has already inoculated himself from the personal attacks by acknowledging "past personal mistakes" so he is now immune to whatever "bimbo eruptions," real or made up, that could be thrown at him, the kind that have plagued Clinton and, more recently, Herman Cain.
While liberals will keep talking about his personal "baggage" (like "banging that hill staffer") and projecting their own "hypocrisy" on conservatives during the campaign, he has already inoculated himself from their personal attacks by acknowledging "past personal mistakes" and he will be talking to the people about what the country needs to do to get out from under Obama's "change" / "malaise".
Who do you think will get better of that exchange?