Insight Into Other Cons: Win. Insight Into Self: Epic Fail

Newt on Cons:

"And it worries them to have ideas, because ideas have edges, and they’re not totally formed, and you’ve got to prove them, and they sound strange because they’re new, and if it’s new how do you know it’s any good, because, after all, it’s new and you’ve never heard it before.”

This from the man who's version of a "new" idea is pablum he's been peddling since the 1990s.

Still, it describes the conservative mindset to a T. Takes one to know one, eh?