“The best way to describe Newt is ‘big head’. He just loves his own voice.”
Newt may be pretty vain, but he was a worthy candidate and would have been much better than Romney, whom everyone settled on in the end even though he was fundamentally the same as Obama. In fact, Romney probably would have damaged our party long term had he won. But, such is the lack of discernment on the part of conservatives that they sucked up to Santorum, whose biggest talking point was about how courageous he was (no ideas), with “pornagraphy” as the top of the list on his issues page on his campaign site, and then later to Mittens. And now, today, most are pimping for Putin, even though he is a thug, dictator and killer who is a mortal danger to our entire country.
In a way, it’s guys like these Putin-cheerleaders who really make me think that we deserve Obama. God punishes a bad people with bad rulers.
Newt was no worthy candidate .
Newt was just another loser who resigned in disgrace.
He never could control his mouth, he helped nuke his own side during the 2005 to 2006 shutdown with his stupid pointless statements.
In 2012 Newt was the last hope against Romney, and Palin was the first hope but she wasn't running. These were like waiting for the tooth fairy to make you win the lottery, not happening.
Newt is just as much a RINO as Romney, only difference is he would lost by an even larger margin and maybe have cost us the House because he was such a horrendous candidate. Newt’s campaign was so awful it made Rick Perry’s look good and Rick Perry’s campaign was awful!
He was also unviable after losing Florida. After that it was a crystal clear that Santorum was the only choice to stop Romney, not that’s he was particularly impressive himself GPH don’t get me wrong, in fact his campaign rather sucked as well, I backed him by default.
But it’s a simple fact that he was A)More conservative than Gingrich, this is undeniable. B)A stronger general election candidate than the unelectable clown Gingrich. C)Getting more votes than Gingrich in the remaining primaries meaning he was the anti-Romney frontrunner and Newt, not he, was splitting the vote by remaining in the race.
Anyone who stayed on the Newt train after Florida was a colossal fool and helped get what they wanted least, Romney.
I don’t feel a need to rehash this crap but you brought it up and I have to refute the Newt BS. Truth is we lost that election before it started because no one worth a damn ran in the first place. Cruz 2016.