I seem to remember when Newt endorsed Dede everyone of FreeRepublic wanted to lynch him and run him out of town on a rail,,Same with the couch incident,,How soon we forget...
Not sure how you came up with “everyone” wanted to... Newt was a civilian, and he gave his reasons for what he was doing. A lot of people might have thought what he did was different from what they wanted, or would do under the same circumstances, but lynch? Over the top, and jumping the shark. One could have done a /sarc or a JMHO.
My only comment would be, I hope “everyone” is going to be willing to support the nominee, (fill in the blank) once the incendiary primary is over.
Right now however we have the chance to put in the best of the big three.
Your point about Newt only accentuates that he remains what I have been saying for 5 years here on this board hes still 80/20.
80% of the time he's brilliant the rest he's obviously not. Out of 300 million citizens these are our choices. These three. We have to live with that.
Maybe by the close of Super Tuesday the perspective will become more clear.
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“when Newt endorsed Dede...”
Newt has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election.
Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate whom Scozzafava was running against, Doug Hoffman, recently remarked about Newt’s endorsement of his rival, “I would advise other conservative Republicans: Don’t hold this against him....Newt apologized to me for not endorsing me, and that’s water over the dam, I think.”
“He was very sincere in his apology,” said Hoffman. “He was given misinformation as to what this race was all about, and what the other candidate was all about. The people in this district, the sort of local leaders who had endorsed Scozzafava, fed him the wrong information.”