Newt does not have a history of pleasing the left. He was the worst nightmare of leftists, liberals, Democrats and RINOs every year he was in the House. The speeches he gave against liberalism outdo the strongest conservative statements made by anybody since...Limbaugh, Levin, etc. Even the Reagan administration was too liberal for Newt, that’s how much of a hardliner he was. He taught a generation of conservative thinkers how to dismantle a leftist. The Pelosi ad was simply him trying to promote alternative energy sources, which he has always been for, and which it’s probably fair to say is the only position on which he isn’t as conservative as some might want him to be.
And more importantly, Newt has said it was his attempt to show conservatives didn't have to cede the environmental debate to the extremists and wackos, and that conservative ideas could compete with the liberal and extreme ideas. He did the same thing when he went on an education tour with the horrible Al Sharpton. He actually went into ghettos, and poor failing schools. And talked about conservative solutions, alongside Sharpton's liberal left solutions. That's territory where you don't see republicans ever.
In Iowa, he went to a very hostile black church and took a lot of harsh questions from angry members about his janitor jobs for kids and no work ethic remarks. They grilled him big time, with many angry questions, then invited him for dinner, laid hands on him and prayed, and afterwards, several church members said they were voting for Newt... that is revolutionary. Newt takes risks and often pays for them by being misunderstood and maligned. He has the heart of a revolutionary and a reformer...
And people would have us support Santorum over this giant...
Newt on Hannity’s show tonight at 9:30 pm EST. Tune in.