How old are you? Newt has never been part of the GOP establishment, and if you were paying attention to when he led the charge nationally calling for that 'Contract with America' that returned the peoples house to US you would know this. Newt's sins would NOT be the dribble of the Jon Stewart media IF he were one of the 'establishment'. Now I do admit when Newt sat next to Nancy the red commie and said the era of Reagan was over he was trying his best to become a member of the 'establishment'. But how did that work out for him, we conservatives have made him to account for that, because it sure did not gain him any 'establishment' sprinkled 'gravitas'.
Newt would have never been hired on Fox IF he was NOT a profit for them, but look how quickly they have done their best to make him appear like a 'carnival barker'.
He did not say that. That is another piece of the GOP-E spin set up to cut the legs off his candidacy last year. He simply said he was working on new Contract with America ideas because we're dealing with new issues in the post-Reagan, post-Bush era. He literally meant time had passed since their presidencies occurred. To reference this statement as something controversial is nothing more than dishonest spin of the same kind Romney is doing on Newt's record now.
See interview here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2831741/posts?q=1&;page=89#85