I sort of halfway doubt that Newt will be Cain’s VP pick, but who knows at this point? In my equally mushy opinion, a candidates region plays less of role these days than ideology. The winning candidate (Cain) will most likely have to choose someone from the opposite side of the Republican Party to have the best chance of winning. That will make a lot of conservatives angry, but the old adage that politics makes strange bedfellows didn’t come about by accident.
That's the old Pubbie party-hack way of thinking. How about a real all-Tea-Party ticket, "balanced" only geographically: Cain, Palin, or Bachmann in any combination? Kick the bleeping country-clubbers into the ditch, forever.
I think Newt with fit nicely and be seen as a ‘balance’. He’s already had to deal with the dems.