Exactly. Sort of like prostitution though.
Newt's been working on his back in the red light district since about the middle of 1995 when "Vanity Fair," a Clinton associated rag, outed his "relationship" with Callista Bisek. From then through the 1996 election the DemonRats ran an increasingly libelous series of ads attacking Newt and the Republicans with nary a counter ad being run. At about the time of Newt's downfall the N. Y. Post ran a column by a former House staffer from the 1995-1996 period who recounted a conversation he'd had with one of his DemonRat colleagues. The DemonRat said they didn't really fear Newt because they had enough dirt on him to blackmail him effectively.
In the 1995-1996 period many of us wondered why the pubbies weren't running counter ads against the DemonRat slime. After all, the party, according to Haley Barbour, the chairman at the time, was financially "drinking from a fire hose." During that period I complained about this failure to a local conservative Republican congressman here in Tennessee. He said he didn't know the reason for the failure, but that it was equivalent to sending troops to take a bridge without giving them covering fire.
Now we know. Newt was blackmailed into not giving the covering fire. Not only that, he's still in bed with the MSM and sticking it to President Bush in the middle of a war and while Bush is doing more than any other President has ever done to try to fix the Social Security mess.
Newt's become contemptible, just the way Benedict Arnold did. He's just not wearing a red coat.