You may be right about Molinari. I like Newt and would love to see him win. But what I see right now is that virtually no one who worked with Newt in the past is coming forward to endorse him or even say mildly positive things about Newt. I wonder why.
3 weeks ago, he was just a blip on the radar. Of course he doesn’t have many endorsements. They would be fools to run out and endorse him without seeing if he can go the distance first. Heck, most of them are fools anyway, but at least they know that much.
What’s worrisome is his past and his penchant for foot-in-mouth syndrome. Wondering which Newt will show up to debate Zero is another worry. Which will it be? Newt, the conservative stalwart? Or Newt, the ‘nice guy’ who buys into the premise of every leftist argument and only disagrees on meaningless policy minutia just to prove he’s not the ‘evil Republican’ everyone said he was?
If he wins, which one of those Newts will show up for work? If it’s the former, he could be a terrific president. If it’s the latter, he could do great damage to conservatism for years to come and put the final nails in the coffin of this country.
Even the Newt pumpers on this site can’t answer those questions with anything approaching certainty.