I'm not terribly fond of Newt. His 'Contract with America' was a classic example of a politician seeing a mob, running out in front of it, and yelling "Follow me!" in order to look like he whipped it up. That's in large part why we didn't get any votes on gun issues until the OK bombing provided an excuse to people we helped elect to stiff us. And even then he engineered the vote after the primaries, to make sure there couldn't be any retribution for wrong votes at the voting booth.
And the worst part was, after being stiffed to advance his 'contract', the contract turned out to be a farce, with all the stuff we might have liked stage managed to fail.
He's not our friend, he'd sacrifice our interests in an instant. Mind you, you could say that of any of the Republican front runners, but the point is, Newt isn't any different in that respect.