Newt was a gift on a par with Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan to the conservative movement or the salvation of real America BACK IN THE EARLY NINETIES.
Now he is old obese and ugly and even if he talks like Thomas Jefferson he comes across as a clever stand up comic Lou Costello to America's MSM brain damaged majority...and we can't win a serious race with just that.
In the 90's, Rush was middle-aged and obese. I don't think that's a distinction you can hold against Rush -- that he's older and not as .... fresh-looking? less aged-looking? whatever ..... I don't get your distinction there.
And if the majority of American voters are brain-damaged by following the MSM, whose fault is that? Rush's? He should go off-air, retire, go away, and just quit the field and hand victory to a class of professional liars and spinners and witch-doctors of political "truth"?
I think you're taking pragmatism over the edge.