I’ll vote for Newt if he’s the nominee.
But I won’t be among the surprised if Bad Newt shows up in the White House and he completely tells conservatives to take it on the chin at the most inopportune moment.
The answer to that, as with any president, is to do our level best to keep the pressure on him.
One of the things I think takes away from that ability of conservatives to hold him accountable is how “easy” it’s been for Newt to gloss over all his foibles and flipflops (I’m addressing mostly his political acts here). I wish a few more conservatives had been willing to “newt” him when he blithely lets the cow patties fall out of his mouth.
For example, on the Freddie Mac thing. He should have been whupped upside the head for that: a, for doing it, and b, thinking we were stupid enough to buy his “I was just a historian” Barbara Streisand.
Does that mean not support him? No. But don’t let him get away with bullcrap like that now. It will be even worse in the White House.
Sometimes I think Gringrich must be looking at conservatives, and events such as his little interview with Sean Hannity the other day, and saying to himself, “God, these people are easy.”
Well, the problem with that thinking is that Newt has been a Reagan conservative all along. It’s not a new thing to him. And he’s not pretending.
I agree to a point.
Never have thought he was a good choice.
I could vote for him under some circumstances.
What good choice do we have?