I like Newt. Romney is simply an empty suit. A robot. A robot that others control. Has no core principles and would sell out America in a North East liberal minute.
Newt is comfortable in his own skin. He knows where he’s going. He’s a visionary who sets his own goals, makes his own plans, answers for his own deeds and, unlike Romney, admits to and asks forgiveness for his misdeeds.
I like Newt’s willingness to confess his failings. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him self-effacing but he is far ahead of Romney in this regard.
I think Newt is at peace with God and his personal demons.
I love how he is able to gleefully take the fight to the enemy. People are longing for a hero, I think Newt could be the guy.
While talking politics with the “executive director” of Michigan’s most conservative county last November, I asked her which candidate she has met (she has met them all over time) and was the most down to earth of the lot. Instantly she replied “Newt Gingrich”. She talked about how she and her family were picking up after the event and thought they were the last to leave a Lincoln Day Dinner of which Newt was the featured speaker. She was surprised to find the speaker still in the building and how cordial, thankful, and complimentary he was of her efforts and how he just didn’t want to get on a plane and asked her to get her family to come and sit down in the lounge and shoot the breeze with his wife and kids. She said they all sat down and talked about family, god, hunting, fishing, hobbies and politics was never a subject that came up in conversation. Faiths positive comments about Newt were quite refreshing to hear and seem to be mirrored in this article even though it is from a communist rag.