Newt could have possibly won had he started running about six years ago and first holding office again. He really neded to be a governor or even congressman again. After what he did then popping up out of the blue saying well here I am now trust me was a bit too much too expect.
I would have had far more respect for the man had he taken his punishment and stayed in congress. We all can fall. REPENTANCE would have kept him in office instead of the collapse of The Contract With America his resignation set off. BTW the wife of one who ran Newt out of town was a Key speaker at the 1996 GOP Convention Susan Molinari and the wife of Bill Paxon-R-NY? You might want to read this This was when the Conservative GOP lost control of the party completely and never recovered. Wiki list Paxon as being a Conservative but I really don't think so LOL.
If he would not stand up to even Boehner then would he stand up to the DEMs? Newts own speeches on Global Warming and photo op with nancy the past couple years didn't help him politically either. He's way too impulsive. He's smart likely a genius but lacks discipline not to act of the first thing that comes to his mind. That in turn cost him his chance for POTUS.
Newt was only another piece of confetti in the wind tunnel that Sarah Palin’s declining to run created.
Good profile there on Newt. He indeed was run out of town by the same breed of schmucks still causing problems today.
His post-congressional dalliances with the various lib causes was foolish, and he deserved every bit of criticism received. I do believe, however, that given the directive, he’d follow through as a reliable Conservative perhaps for only a single term. He tends to wander.