[Sam Gamgee]

I am curious. Why Newt? Is it only because he is NOT Romney and has a better chance than Santorum in beating Obama?

My understanding of Newt is he has some great conservative ideas but also many whacky liberal ideas.

[22cal]

Newt has been wacky sometimes. No one is perfect, especially Newt. But Newt is the only out-spoken and articulate critic of the Establishment powers that be and their agenda. Newt is voicing what the tea party wants to happen.

Summed up greatly by this politico story:

Newt Versus the Republican Establishment

[ngat]

“I am curious. Why Newt? Is it only because he is NOT Romney and has a better chance than Santorum in beating Obama?
My understanding of Newt is he has some great conservative ideas but also many whacky liberal ideas.”

Newt’s long term record shows a completely different outlook for the future of the American people than Romney’s record shows - so it’s not ONLY that he is not Romney. That aside, politics encompasses the art of timing and the art of the possible - so you said it well, that Newt has a better chance of beating Obama than Santorum (or Romney). Also other conservative candidates have dropped out and endorsed Gingrich and that is also good reason to commit to one candidate now.

Whatever “whacky ideas” Gingrich may have, he also knows that with the microscope on him by the people who are striving to get him elected, and the congress that is swinging conservative, he will have his hands full correcting the course Obama and elitists have put this country on. So, I’m not that worried about him being able to press some big-liberal-idea agenda that encompasses every non-conservative idea he may have floated in a long political career in totally different times and circumstances.

In short, sam gamgee, timing is everything.