The ad may have been 30 sec but so what? Signing a bad bill takes 5 seconds.
It was consistent what Newt was doing in that 10+ year period. He joined every trendy liberal cause. His judgement is questionable.
His amnesty plan is beyond stupid. That was the real killer for me.
He must know that his amnesty law would lead to mass amnesty by opening all sort of loopholes for liberal courts and admin.
I saw Newt many times on Fox in the last 5 or so years defending conservative positions. The idea that he somehow morphed into a liberal in the last decade is just false and ludicrous. No one’s claiming he’s 100% conservative, just 90%. From what I’ve seen, that 90% stat holds up even just considering what he’s said since he was out of office after 1998. The only way you get someone who looks like a 100% conservative is when someone completely and artificially changes their positions and disavows everything they’ve said and done before, like Romney.