You may be right and his Catholicism may in fact help balance an awful track record politically. There is a natural tendency toward skepticism based on a whole cadre of faux Catholics in D.C. I don’t in fact necessarily hold to his Catholicism as being expedient. I hope he benefits from being Catholic, which really is an understatement. Setting that aside, his track record has not been very good as a conservative and I’m in no way anxious to demean the man. I’m just not convinced, again, based on political track record, and I am still a conservative in search of a candidate to a point, but only to a point since I think the nation’s problem is more spiritual than political, but that’s a different topic.
“Setting that aside, his track record has not been very good as a conservative”
Simply incorrect as post 106 above illustrates.
I believe you are correct that America’s ultimate difficulty is spiritual. America has, more and more, forgotten the Lord.
I believe the political side is still salient upon this matter — if you have a president who isn’t pushing a carnal minded agenda all the time, it’s got to be better than having one who does. And Newt’s return to an environment where the Lord is honored will hopefully give him some kind of compass by which to proceed. Also he does have the kind of verve in fighting off Obama that none of the others have shown (except maybe Sarah Palin in little occasional zingers, and she is not running).