I would have sued also. My wife had neck surgery for a car rear-ending her. Having hip bone taken out and a stainless steel plate screwed into your spine is not a fun endeavor. My wife now 12 years later has a normal appearance. Her neck still bothers her and her range of movement is permanently limited.
As far as Rick supporting Specter; there was an agreement that if Rick supported him that he would fight for our judicial candidates. We have two excellent Supreme Court Justices as a result. If that is not a factor for you, you can always look at Newt's support of liberal candidates versus conservative ones. There are three occasions where he has done so.
In the 2009 special election for Congress in New York’s 23rd district, Gingrich was outspoken in his support of liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava, up to the moment she finally quit the race after conservatives had rallied behind Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.
Long after most prominent conservatives had endorsed Hoffman, Gingrich held firm in his advocacy for a liberal candidate who supported Obama’s stimulus plan and the pro-union “card check” proposal, among other bad positions.
In that NY-23 race, for instance, Gingrich went so far as to attack conservatives who supported Hoffman (whom Gingrich belatedly endorsed himself), saying: “So I say to my conservative friends who suddenly decided that whether they’re from Minnesota or Alaska or Texas, they know more than the upstate New York Republicans? I don’t think so.”
Gingrich also aggressively supported and campaigned for liberal Congressman Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) when he faced a conservative challenge from current Congressman Andy Harris who won in the primary.
In 2006, Gingrich also backed liberal Congressman Joe Schwarz (R-MI) when he was challenged by the conservative candidate, Congressman Tim Walberg who won in the primary.
Regarding your question, if that is your standard then Mitt should be your guy. He has the most private enterprise (business) experience of ANY of the candidates. So if that is your standard, you may want to re-evaluate.
It's a chance you take. Live with it, surgery or manipulation. I don't buy the chiropractor cracking two vertebrae. The chiropractor paid nothing of the $350,000 , it was passed on to his patients, you and I.
Sorry about your wife, there are legitimate claims. But imo claims of back and neck pain is in too many cases a way to scam the system.
Granted, Newt supported Scozzafava, Gilchrist,Schwarz, and also Specter, but, and important but, he did not represent the states of the 4 of them.
When Gingrich in a GPO fund raiser said they would support a pro choice candidate to gain control of the house, I stopped being a contributor. Newts' job was to keep control of the house, Santorums' was to respresent his constituents wishes.
Newt did his, although I disagree, but Santorum did not.