Given his history I would put nothing past Newt--including convenient tears before a group of women over his dead mother. Would you put on such a performance if it improved your chances of getting votes from women? Whatever your answer, it is clear some people would do that. Remember this is the same guy who dumped his sick wife on her hospital bed to chase new skirt. Meanwhile he was trashing Clinton in public even as he carried on his own affair.
This guy is the very definition of crocodile tears! And why not...? Obviously there are people who will fall for it.
I can't deny anything you say here.
Newt has shown signs of psychopathy, so I can understand where you're coming from.
It's just a personal code that won't allow me to question a person's grief over a loved one. I will always give such a person the benefit of any doubt.
I'm not criticising anyone else for doing it, though. That's up to their own conscience.