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"If you're going to attack it, you're really attacking the (Constitution's) framers," he said

No matter how right Newt is on this issue, this could turn around and be his jump the shark moment. The libs could really make enough of an issue to cast a dark pall over the conservative party in general.
Yes many of their decisions are not very good, but most are relatively well thought out and correct. Right now Newt needs to get the libs and the cons to pay attention to defeating Obama! Then who ever gets in will most likely have the chance to appoint 2 and maybe 3 justices in his first term. The reverse is that Obama will be able to appoint those justices to the court if he is reelected. Changing the composition, duties, and powers of the separate branches of our government is much harder to do. Talking right now is just dumb.

Only a dictator can do that on a whim. Now I am sure Newt himself is not calling for dictatorial powers to be assigned to the president, so why even raise the issue now? Concentrate on Obama and defeating Obama! Constitutional changes can be proposed when our person gets in. Also, if our guy appoints the justices that he will get to during his term we will be able to get very ahead of the liberals.

For now Newt and all our potential candidates need to pay attention to defeating obama. We all need to pay attention to getting our guy in to PROTECT SCOTUS from putting two or three more liberal justices on the court. That is something that we can easily run on. Preventing Obama from stacking the deck against the average citizen in the short term

Focus folks, and Newt should not be playing in these suppositions until he has a presidential pulpit to muse from. Besides, if the electorate is the least reflection of the me members on FR, talking too much about SCOTUS may confuse them or put them to sleep.

Proposing working in the powers of a dictatorial president is way too far off track to win them over. Worse it may give the dems too much ammo to go after our candidates in the public and in the press.

Think about it, even if any of the other candidates is put on the spot about Newts statement do they defend themselves by showing the liberals just how they disagree with Newt? Then does Newt come back later and make an issue of how wrong they are? Friction needlessly started now about issues NO presidential candidate can affect in the sh0rt term anyway.

The dems are probably salivating with all the potential to take Newt and the others off message of defeating Obama and fracturing our party with it. As Clinton's advisors used to say... it's the economy stupid.

Our folks need to stay on that, as well as all the other failings of Obama too.

Preventing Obama from stacking the deck against the average citizen in the short term

It’s too late.....the deck is already stacked from the Supreme Court to all lower federal courts.

The time has come to have someone with the cajones to do something “constitutional” about it and Newt has simply stated that he will. Other Republicans shiver and shake at the mere mention of causing any politically incorrect ripples in the water at Washington D.C..