Have heard most of those expailned by Newt in speeches or interviews recently and he has OK explainations that don’t seem quite the same as you pushed. I will keep listening to credible sources and what the man says that sound plausible.
For instance,
Newt explained that TR was conservative until he went 3rd party then saw the progressives as his hope for 2nd term. More or less jives with my impressions.
HC - he explained that Heritage first propmoted this and he agreed then until looking deeper when he and most other conservatives saw the potential for dem abuse (like we saw in nobamacare).
His position on ethanol is that as long as oil gets tax break/subsidies, why should ethanol be treated differently and that all energy tax breaks/subsidies should be gone.
There never will be a single perfect conservative candidate, so long as some keep nit picking with such minute and potentially mis-leading details, we will keep getting liberal dems elected. Right now, Newt “probably” is our best conservative, even with his warts, that can beat nobama and deliver our best chance of erasing years of dem damage.
Enough of the sliming.... ENOUGH.
Oh, no, TR was no conservative; he even abhorred the term. But he was most patriotic unlike so many of the anti-conservatives. TR believed government was a part of the solution of most national problems; his nephew-by-marriage went even further.