Yes, I want Mitt over Newt... in my sleep.
Newt is good at talking but he is like Nixon or Clinton. etc. They don’t care about anything but themselves.
He is great in Republican debates but put him in front of another audience and he will say whatever he needs to say to wow them. Hence he is on the couch with Nancy or endorsing individual mandates.
The biggest difference between Newt and Romney is that Newt has no problem collecting his cash from Freddie. Then being outraged when people call him on it!
For the record, Newt was shown the door (of being Speaker) by conservative Republicans.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Wrong again. 0 for 3. As a matter of fact, for the record, Newt was kicked out by the Moderates(!) ....
"There is no doubt in my mind he had the votes to win the Speakership, but I'm not sure he had the votes to govern," said Kenneth M. Duberstein, a former White House chief of staff ... .... from the article (drum roll please) .....
"What I believe desperately needs to take place is to heal the alienation that currently exists," said Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a conservative football Hall of Famer who announced his own challenge today to Mr. Gingrich's second-in-command, Representative Dick Armey of Texas.
The heart of the Speaker's problems, many Republicans said, is that he had never made an adequate adjustment from being the minority to being the majority, from intense backbench opposition to governing.
The hard-edged partisan bite that worked for Mr. Gingrich in the minority came across as stridency in power, Republicans said. ''Whenever we try to go on the offensive, the White House tries to make Newt the issue and whenever that happens we lose,'' said Peter T. King, a Republican from Long Island. ...... AND the "piste de résistance" ...
When Mr. Gingrich allowed Representative John R. Kasich of Ohio, the budget committee chairman, to try to rally House Republicans around a conservative blueprint for more than $100 billion in new savings, the moderates refused to back it.
Is that an opus?