Newt a DC insider who parlayed his years in Congress into a lucrative influence peddling business to the tune of $1.8M for his company -- the WSJ dubbing him "Newt Inc.". He promoted the Global Warming Scheme with Nancy Pelosi. Newt was fined an unprecedented $300K by a bipartisan Congressional ethics committee that eventually drove him from office in 1998. Newt reneged on the original Contract With America -- and even with a Republican dominated House, did nothing.
The man stands ZERO -- and I mean ZERO -- chance against Obama. He won't get a single independent or crossover vote. He's McCain Redux.
Newt is a Rockefeller Republican --a liberal, big government wheeler-dealer who represents everything that the Tea Party protested against a few years ago. I just cannot believe how some so-called Tea Partyers are contorting themselves to make Newt fit that Conservative label now!
“Newt a DC insider who parlayed his years in Congress into a lucrative influence peddling business to the tune of $1.8M for his company — the WSJ dubbing him “Newt Inc.”. He promoted the Global Warming Scheme with Nancy Pelosi. Newt was fined an unprecedented $300K by a bipartisan Congressional ethics committee that eventually drove him from office in 1998. Newt reneged on the original Contract With America — and even with a Republican dominated House, did nothing.”
“The man stands ZERO — and I mean ZERO — chance against Obama. He won’t get a single independent or crossover vote. He’s McCain Redux.”
There was nothing wrong with him starting a consulting business. Even if he did lobbying, so what? It’s all legal. What would you have done in his shoes? On the Pelosi couch thing, there really is no excuse though all he did say was positive things about green tech. On the ethics charge, didn’t the IRS clear him of any wrongdoing in the end?
On the McCain thing. McCain lost because he was incompetent. Remember when he suspended his campaign to deal with the financial crisis and then said absolutely nothing substantive at the bit meeting with all the bigwigs? Also by that point, it would have been hard for any Republican to win after 8 years of Bush, two of which he basically spent in a bunker because he was beaten down by the media so much.