I love everything Newt is saying now. Only problem is that he is Newt. Newt wants to get elected.
Will he decide he thinks different tomorrow? He might if he thinks he knows better than you.
I want a candidate who thinks for themselves, not a “party man,” one who’s a “team player,” one who submits themselves to groupthink, one who “goes along to get along,” or one who thinks “I don’t understand this and it doesn’t make sense, but my party and/or church says it’s right, so I’m going to do it.” I don’t want a candidate who’s part of a machine, I want one who rages against the machine. You don’t hire someone for a difficult, challenging job because you want them to follow a little rulebook in lockstep and never think creatively or think for themselves. You have to get a sense of whether you trust their judgment based on past performance, and then let them use that judgment. Obviously you can fire them or push back if you believe later that you made a mistake in picking them.
So you trust Milt or Ricky more than the man who brought us the Contract with America, retook congress for the first time in many decades, reformed welfare, balanced the budget and helped end the cold war? Please show us what Gov. Romney or Sen. Santorum ever accomplished that was even close to the level of what Speaker Gingrich did. Seriously. Newt on a bad day is better than Ricky or Milt on a good day. And don’t get me started on Wrong Paul!