Is it that people are willing to ignore everything that happened from 1996-2011 or just that they've forgotten about it or never knew it?
He's got a few more issues than a couch and that scuzzy babe. The guy wrote a friggin' book on global warming for God's sake. He advocated strongly for cap and trade. He pushed Medicare Part D. He told us that the era of Reagan was over in 2008. There are myriad other issues, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
I'm not 100% against him, but I think his past combined with his penchant for foot-in-mouth disease will take the shine off him pretty quickly.
Have you read the book? it is the conservatives view of global warming. You do know that throughout time the earth has warmed? at one time Europe was under ice and all of england was under ice. It melted and became inhabited. Of course the globe warmed. I am not saying it is man made or due to man as it evolved over centuries. Newt said he felt that conservatives need a voice in this debate...he supports drilling for oil and utilizing clean coal which is a fantastic idea since O is shutting down our coal industry. I do think we could come up with ideas on improving our life styles through science but not via punishing the oil industry or imposing absurd epa regulations that are costing us money. Newt said he will do away with the epa...his solutions are on his site.