You are really shallow. Very shallow. Newt is a complex guy and I have no use for his dalliance with enviro issues at all. Having said that, he has also been a leader in the drill here drill now pay less movement for many years.
Hell, his organization made up that damned cliche you clown. Besides that, he has been the leader in this campaign on going after liberal energy policy and correctly defining Chu as a bike riding academia nut. Or do you even know who Chu is?
Are you even paying attention to this campaign? No, wait, don't answer. Obviously not.
How can you post such hyperbole and name calling, all while completely ignoring the book Newt has published that completely contradicts every one of your points? How? We keep hearing how Newt is the one with the “Conservative Accomplishments” - unfortunately, he has thrown all that out the window for political expediency... and now wants it back...
Shall is the man who will continue to believe the lies. Or as the Bible puts it (in reference to returning to sin) - “as a dog returneth to his vomit”...
Gingrich is professorial and that is a good thing. Many conservatives look down on intellectuals. We do that at our peril — the fact that most of our universities have gone left into cloud cuckoo land does not mean we should advocate ignorance. Some problems require considerable intellect even to address, let alone solve.
The problem of evaluating a professorial candidate is that such men write books — lots of them — and a fair evaluation of their views requires reading hundreds or thousands of pages of what they've written and what others have written about them.
Energy policy simply is not an area in which I have expertise; not only have I not read what Gingrich has written on this issue, I'm not sure I have the background competence to understand him. That means what I know about Gingrich's views on energy policy is what I read that others have written about him, and I think C. Edmund Wright and TheBattman are accurate reflections of radically different views I hear from conservatives on what they think about Gingrich on energy policy.
I welcome this discussion and hope it continues.