This pretty much says it all. I know Jack Kemp’s former campaign manager in Georgia (yeah I’m that old) and he knew Newt all the way back to his college professor days and told me that Newt will say ANYTHING to get elected, and he told me that long after his Jack Kemp days, so it wasn’t a politically motivated comment. Newt is playing FR people like a Stradavarius and I can imagine they day when his supporters will rue the day they pulled for this guy. The GOP field is just awful. We are in deep trouble.
While I am not a Roman Catholic myself, I would like to ask, do I err in my understanding that when Newt joined your church not too long ago, they vetted him for sincerity?
The post you’re responding to (#25) actually lists things Santorum has done to indicate he is a big government conservative. Not Newt.
You may end up being right about Newt, but that isn’t my sense. I think we’re seeing pretty much the real Newt. Yes, he might disappoint at times, which can be said of any politician, but in the end i think we’ll be far better off (both the country and the conservative movement) with him as President than with any of the other remaining likely possibilities.
Your post is interesting as you’re taking the word of someone who knew him “way back when”. At the same time, there are a large number of people who also knew him in the past, folks from the Reagan administration, who have endorsed him enthusiastically.
Newt Gingrich has gone through AA, counseling and a religious conversion to Roman Catholicism. He is now 68 years old. People change and his platform is a positive one Conservative Republicans support.
Sounds like your comment is definitely a politically motivated one.
Go pound sand.