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This happens all the time., When I was a kid, I had Guppys. When they gave birth, they would turn around and eat them. It usually gets pretty nasty before it is over with.
Newt does this all the time, he is all over the place. As soon as you start thinking he is leaning left, he makes a sharp right turn again.
I don't believe he knows what he is talking about anymore.
People who actually think in realistic terms often seem inconsistent and weak-willed to those who are beholden to dogma.
Newt understands that the Republican Party stands for no issues other than putting Republican team members into office.
Naturally those Republicans who believe that the GOP stands for some principles and political theories are going to be disappointed with how the party is run.
The Dems have exactly the same problem.
This disconnect between rehetoric and policies usually don't trouble the Rep partisans, but since they're now a party out of favor with the majority of American somebody needs to get the blame.
Ironically, it's those Republicans who can actually think on their feet who seem to be getting most of the blame.
the partisans actually BLEIVE the blather they'd been fed and are shocked to discover that the leaders into whom they put their trust, have been lying to them all along.
Hence we read on this board, for example, that Bush II is a liberal or socialist or whatever.
Their confusion would be amusing if it didn't actaully matter so much that they wake up from their childish dreamworld.
He isn't merely inconsistent, he's erratic.