I see the sense in your statement. I think he was a major criminal - but there it is - he has served a major jail sentence.
And that in a nutshell is all he said. So let us also not fall victim to over-analyzing it.
We need to put things back together with Israel. He’s speaking his mind and random ideas just like he always does. He even said up front that he is not sure he has enough information yet to form a good decision.
In the scheme of things, so what? I’d rather have occasional insight into what a man is thinking and how he thinks rather than someone like Bush that wouldn’t say anything even when crap was raining down all around him. Even when we were begging him not to do the first bailout and he just wouldn’t talk to us.
In case no one noticed, one of Newt’s methods is to say things on a subject showing how he currently sees it and then gauges the public reaction to it. That in itself, is good and not bad.
As him to shut up enough times and you might get what you asked for. You also may not like it.
Compare the open sharing of thoughts that Newt does with Obama’s “most transparent administration in history.”
Now does he still annoy you so much?