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I'm interested in the response you get to your question. I was a very close follower of Newt and his career and I'll be darned if I can remember him doing anything that would call the kind of responses I see here to any mention of his name or his ideas. Maybe my memory is failing me, but it seems to me he fell prey to one of the most vicious Leftie/MSM negative campaigns the country had ever seen to that point. Everything he did and said was spun at its worst. I hear the same vilification in the tone of many around here to comment about him that I hear in the tone of most conservatives when they mention Bill Clinton.

I like Newt, and I especially like his ideas. If he failed anywhere it was in underestimating the vile obstructionist tactics our enemies would use to discredit him. Little things really stick in my craw, like the time he was forced to leave Air Force one by the back door. It was the first time EVER a sitting member of Congress was had not gotten off the plane with the President. He cited the experience as an example of how far the Right had gone in their disdain for the other side and the next thing you know the press was calling him a cry-baby.

There is nothing that would do my heart more good than to see Newt come roaring back and shove the Right's holier-than-thou attitude down its throat!

Go Newt!