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Originally Posted by [Phill]
How can you like Newt? Like i get he is supposed to be some big ideas man, like how he basically invented Obamacare as a good example, but he is a complete douchebag.
He probably isnt electable because of his dickishness, but if he were he would set back US-world relations decades because of how he is such an unlikeable bastard.
In short, because:
1. I'm not picking an American Idol contestant; and
2. I have zero doubt that he can be effective at diplomacy.
Between that, and liking the majority of his politics, and thinking he's one of the most brilliant men to run for President on either side of the aisle in decades...that's where I arrive at a highly positive opinion.
I don't care that he's a douchebag. Do you care that our Vice President is a douchebag? I'll make those types of judgments separately, but I'm far too cynical to let that affect my vote.