First, I am not convinced that in the heat of this campaign, we are getting a good, unbiased history of things; I lived through the 1990s, so I have some first-hand knowledge of events, and much of what I read now doesn’t really match, and when it doesn’t, it “surprisingly” is always in ways that advance the cause of whatever candidate is telling me the history.
Is Lindsay Graham making an “admission”? It is an equally consistent interpretaion that Lindsay sees Newt as a lot less conservative than he was in the 1990s, and therefore he likes Newt as a candidate more, and so he is just saying things that help Newt. Lindsay Graham was once respected as a conservative, and he changed, and as I said, his pronouncements now are seen with some degree of skepticism.
Of course, the argument about whether Newt should have been “forced out” or not in the 1990s isn’t high on my list of things I care about in this election. I’d rather judge Newt on the things he actually did, than on things that others were trying to do to him.
I agree that it doesn’t matter much in this election, only I have to atleast get a little idea about the era to know what everybody is always talking about all the time... 1994 1994, I still haven’t got a good handle on that... Some people are really lost in much of the history out there, while still feeling it’s not really important..