If Newt didn’t get it in Reagan’s day (around 1982), and didn’t get it as of 2008 when he joined Nancy Pelosi to herald the need to fix Man-Made Global Warming some twenty-six years later, why should I operate under the assumption he gets it today?
Newt passes himself off as a historical smarty pants, yet he couldn’t stop from putting his foot in his historical mouth.
You got to look at everything including where he is at now. Newt is an “out of box” idea man and of course some of those ideas will be atrocious. Other ideas will be brilliant. None could fly without getting past Congress. Focus on nothing but negatives about everybody and you will miss out on a terrible lot.