You can call it whatever fits your need but the fact remains he wasn't vetted and it's all designed before hand. He can't do the battle of being vetted and stand against trashing Newt at the same time as that's his main reason/assignment for being in the race to begin with.
It's about AMERICA, not about a two bit lawyer player to keep the GOP E in power - the 'do it for the team' candidate supporting the worst of the worst against a conservative! He's vetted enough for those who can see but NOT for those who refuse to see.
Blah blah blah. More anger that Rick wasn’t vetted to your super high standards and poor poor Newton was just unjustly trashed like a defenseless girl in a tornado. Whatever. What you find appalling about Rick was obviously a value to him looking at election results. Conversely all these magnificent traits Newt has in your eyes turned just about everyone off.