Ironically, though, Newt was a GA delegate for Nelson Rockefeller at the 1968 convention in Miami Beach. I don't think we can put much confidence in him, and neither do his two previous wives.
He must have been about 19 at the time. And the contract for America was his brain child. Not bad for a former left leaning RINO.
'Zat so?! Wow. That dates me. Bizarre if true. And I agree with your larger point:
I don't think we can put much confidence in him, and neither do his two previous wives.
I suspect we need to junk the entire upper tier of leadership and start afresh. We need to draft people who have been thorns in the side of that old failed and traitorous leadership.
They may not be always pure, but faced with what we currently do...they are vast improvements over Bush/Specter/McCain/Snowe/Hagel/Lugar/Collins/Coleman etc.:
People like:
J.D. HayworthDuncan Hunter
Curt Weldon
Tom Tancredo
Mike Pence
John Thun