There can’t be multiple contradictory policies. You can’t pander if you can’t deliver.
Newt is an idea guy, and sometimes his ideas are brilliant. Other times they stink. This looks to be one of the stinkier versions. But he’s not utterly unreasonable, for example how he backed off of global warming.
Yeah, I’m not against newt but if you support newt —you have to know that he is just as capable as Reagan of doing boners that totally screw up the country as happened in 1986 with Reagan’s amnesty bill.
Therefor if you support newt, for the sake of the republic, you also have to be quite willing to get into his face.