Is that actually better? Is populism what we are pushing these days?
Newt needs to be careful, if we use the new standard for quoting that campaigns are using against Romney, this quote of his will get him two ways:
Way 1: "Well, I don't think" -- (narrator) "What does Newt have against thinking? He certainly wasn't thinking when he sat on the couch with Pelosi. And he wasn't thinking when he praised John Kerry and sided with him against Jim DeMint on Global Warming. He could not have been thinking when he took millions from Freddie and Fannie. And what was he thinking when he attacked Paul Ryan and the House Tea Party for "right-wing socialism"?
Way 2: "I'm using the language of the Left. I'm using the language of classic American populism."
Of course, when you have to argue that you are NOT doing something, it often means you are.
Silly arguments that do not make sense, now this is the language of the left. American populism has always been a conservative concept. It is in the south anyway. Go Newt, tear his heart out.