If I understand your posting, Bucco, you agree that all political candidates have massive prepping via their staff and paid consultants with mock debates that include all possible questions. The candidates are coached into giving the best political spin to the questions - even if that includes turning the question around on the inquirer - as what Newt did with the first question about his "open marriage request".

The candidates spend multitudes of hours with these political consultants to get the answers down pat as well as the "proper" attitude - as in Newt's puffed up anger. All that is just acting.

Your question, you said, was "isn't that the practice of all candidates and doesn't everyone know that?" Yes, it is the pracitce of all candidates and NO, everyone does not know that. At the watering hole, some of the guys thought Newt was so smart to respond with indignant anger about his failed marriage rather than talk about the important issues of the day. No, everyone does not know the candidates are following a scripted act. They just have to remember what their consultants told them and how to act in the proper way for the scripted answer.