he's been out of office for 4 years now - I don't hate him, I just don't like him
The attack politics techiques that Newt pioneered have done nothing, nothing, to improve this nation, and have worked greatly to its detriment. Newt worked to divide people, and the anger you see today is the result.
The famous framers of the Long House of the Five Nations, Dekanawide and Hiyonwatha, put forward a rule which "mischievous" people like him brought down upon themselves: As he worked ceaselessly to lessen the dignity of the people, and never for their unity, he should be heard from no more, never again.
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