Personally, even though Newt speaks well and convincingly...
..I cannot get past his dissing of Ryan's plan (not so long ago)--which, for me, was comparable to Perry's 'you are heartless if you don't support the illegals'..
.. &his photo-op with Nancy Pelosi..
....which, coupled with concerns already mentioned on this thread, leaves me unable to trust him.
I agree with your objections to Newt. He has proven in the past how easily he is willing to compromise his professed “principles”. (Past performance is evidence of future performance...people don’t change. A character flaw is a character flaw). Even if we want to be charitable and call him “naive”, it doesn’t change the fact that he gets “rolled” by the Leftist ‘RATS at almost every turn. The result is the same whether or not he “goes along” willingly or unwillingly. As Rush said, “The 1994 Newt would have never _said_, ‘The era of Regan is over’.”
My suggestion about Newt doing a Youtube debate with an Obama stand-in with teleprompter, wasn’t because I support him for the nomination...I don’t...but only for the general voting public to get to see some samples of what a real Lincoln-Douglas-style debate between B.O. and Newt would look like, and how he would be able to annihilate B.O. in such debates.
Whatever else Newt is, he is a formidable debater, and there are lots of people who have said that they would even “pay” to see such debates between the two because they know B.O. would get sliced and diced in front of everyone.
B.O. knows it. That’s why he would never agree to do any such live debates with Newt.