FYI, I have sadly concluded you were right about Newt. Amnesty convinced me, now I also don’t have a candidate in this race.
If Gingrich gets the nomination, I will vote for him.
However, unless most conservatives truly face up to Newt’s warts, grapple with them, and figure out ahead of time if they can live with him, I think the potential for a major cataclysm between a President Gingrich and the base is huge.
That’s exactly what neither we nor the nation need at this time. In fact, it would be a disaster in terms of being able to move forward politically on our nation’s severe problems.
Newt’s lack of conservative *instincts* (as opposed to his bodacious *intellectual* understanding of conservatism, and his somewhat less luminous articulation of conservative principles) is not going away. It’s not going to get better.
So, if a person is going to vote for the guy, it pays to figure out what you’re getting NOW rather than six months into a Gingrich administration.
It will really stink if he gets elected by conservatives and then along come a bunch of conservatives acting shocked and angry at his behavior toward them.