I think Newt will win GA. I don’t think his chances are very good in the other states.
My folks are Christians who have been married over 60 years. They don’t like Newt. I believe it is his marital history more than anything.
They see it as a character issue.
I guess anything can happen, so we will watch Super Tuesday and see what transpires.
The media is in full tip it to Mitt mode right now. They will probably keep that up through Tuesday.
Democrats are never worse than when they say about epic bad actors like Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton that (quoting Molly Ivins on LBJ) "he was a miserable human being, but he was soooo good on the issues!"
Notwithstanding that the "deathbed divorce papers" story was a straight-out lie, a political roorback told around by odious little 'Rat calumniators (but I repeat myself), Newt's personal life has been a train wreck of his own devising, showing that he has all the self-control and social grace of a bull elephant in mating season. That is not a positive, and women all over the country despise him for it.
That, and his out-of-office mewling and sucking up to major political black holes like Nancy Pelosi and the Greens, is good enough reason to prefer another candidate for the highest office in the People's gift.
We need Newt as a polemicists and as a fashioner of issues, to critique the self-congratulatory and self-promoting narrative of the New Mandarinate in Washington and New York. But as President ..... ? He was not overall a success as Speaker, his record there was very checkered and he was vulnerable to influence by Bill Clinton. No, I wouldn't want Newt in the Oval Office, where I think he would be a net liability. I'm afraid the Democrats know how to play him, and that they would play him in the Presidency the way they did in the Speakership.