I’m really not a conspiracy nut, but sometimes you just have to wonder - do the Republicans hate Republicans?
Don’t know.
But I do know establishment Republicans hate conservatives.
No, they just hate conservatives.
In this instance, it's more of a case of Newt loving Newt. He's become enamored of his vision of himself as statesman and thought-leader...above the fray, the holder of wisdom, the robed messiah of the right delivering his sermon on the mount.
I used to think highly of Newt. But whatever esteem conservatives may have held for him has been snatched by Newt to shower on himself. It is now wholly apparent that the deep flaws that torpedoed his career were not the exception to a brilliant man; it was the occasional brilliance that was the anomaly in a deeply flawed man.