Newt has changed dramatically. Here are some FR links about his conversion.
Newt Brings Gaelic Fury To The GOP Race (some personal family history)
Newt Gingrich Attacks Fashionable Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Newt Gingrich: What Kind of Catholic Is He? [Born Lutheran, Turned Baptist, Now Catholic]
Newt Gingrich: America’s Next Catholic President?
Clemson Palmetto Poll finds Gingrich (38%) momentum growing, most S.C. GOP voters still uncommitted
Gingrich Threatens GOP's Chance to Nab Independents
The Evangelical Case for Newt Gingrich
Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics
Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics [ecumenical}
Newt Gingrich on Catholicism and JPII
Why Newt Gingrich Converted to Catholicism
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich Opens Up on Catholic Conversion and Embracing 'Overt Christianity'
Newt Gingrich on his conversion to Catholicism
Gingrich Keeps Quiet on Catholic Conversion (received into Church over the past weekend)
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich conversion details; plans release of JP2 documentary
Gingrich to Become Catholic During Easter Season
The Newt Evangelization: Gingrich to become Catholic
HERE:
"And when Pope Benedict came to the basilica for vespers with the bishops, and my wife and the choir were singing, and I was allowed to come as a spouse -- I had been talking with Monsignor Rossi, who is the rector of the basilica, for about five years, just about faith, and secularism, the challenges we have in the modern world with our civilization, and that afternoon seeing Pope Benedict XVI fairly close up, and both really believing in his central theme of 'Christ Our Hope,' and seeing the joy in his eyes, fundamentally different than the news media portrait of a severe German intellectual, something in me just was triggered."
I saw him from a distance. He looked so happy too. Big smile at times.
Now, That place is truly anointed just some church or several chapels multilevel. You could fit more than one or two completely St Patrick's from Manhattan. Also if his wife sings there she sings with the angels. They are anointed! Truly one of the greatest blessings I ever experienced. Holy Ground!
“Newt has changed dramatically”
I respect your opinion, but I do not share it.
His shenanigans in the mid-term elections going against conservative candidates cured me of this misconception. I used to like Newt. I feel his “conversion” was all-too convenient. I think he used the Catholic church - many Catholics feel the same way if you read around the intertubes on him.
I feel if his “conversion” was genuine, he’d not be running for president.
He has fooled many conservatives that he is now suddenly a stalwart conservative. He isn’t, and there are many “couch” moments ahead if he gets the nomination. The only thing worse than a liberal Romney is a pretend-conservative Gingrich.
We don’t need either of these characters as president just because both claim to be “conservative”.