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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (1522)	3/4/2007 6:37:56 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

I think the knocks on Newt will come from two directions: 1) Personal life: Married three times. Told wife number one he was leaving her while she was in the hospital. Wife number three was a staffer....and wife number two found out about wife number three from the newspapers and gossip rags. Newt then left wife number two and married the staffer. The family values crowd might have some trouble with all this. (and with Rudy's history in the same arena). 2) Tenure as Speaker: Newt was a great architect of the 1994 republican revolution. But as Speaker he had a difficult time determining priorities and when to "hold em" or "fold em". He lost the budget showdown with Clinton in 95, and a lot of that came down to ego. His former Press Secretary Tony Blakely is on record saying the guy just could not keep his mouth shut...and didn't seem to know how to actually govern when he had the power to do so. Getting to power: great. Actually governing: Not so good. Now, I like Newt. I think Newt actually reads books and is a critical analyst of current events, at a level few can match. But he may be a better pundit than an actual governor. My two cents worth on what Newt has as problems.