What if the elites hate Newt because, many of them knowing him personally and having worked for him, they think he’s a jerk, a poor leader, or unstable?
Just sayin’.
Just because someone hates someone, I don’t see how you can assume that means something positive about your guy.
There are many Dem elites who hate Barack Obama — for completely appropriate reasons! He is killing their party and he is a jerk and a poor leader.
They hate him because he’s their opposite and something they can never and will never be. He’s a genuine, pro-life, deficit cutting, tax cutting, budget balancing, small government, big defense, democrat whomping, Reagan conservative!
The elites and other Republican “insiders” hate Newt because Newt is from the Reagan wing of the party, while they are all from the HW Bush wing of the party, which has held sway since Reagan left office.
If Newt wins... THEY LOSE, they lose their power over the Republican party, conservatives... real reagan conservatives will have finally retaken back the leadership of the Republican party from the RINO Bush family that nearly destroyed it and the country.
God Bless Newt Gingrich !
The surface reason Newt was pushed out of the speaker’s position was his affair.
The underlying (actual) reason is that, as speaker, he used his position to push the GOP house to the right. Insisting that they actually stay true to the promises they made in the Contract with America. That generated a lot of bad-will from more “seasoned” Republicans that were more worried about retaining their seats than getting things done.
You see the same dynamic with the “Tea Party” freshmen in the house. They were the target of a lot of wrath from other GOP congressmen, because they insisted on holding firm on their promises, instead of “being practical” and compromising their principles.