Maybe they actually READ Newt's detailed plan specifying the things he proposes to do to get this country in the right direction again -- things like making English the offical language of the U.S government, getting rid of the capital gains and the death taxes, allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines and letting regular folks get the same tax write-offs for it that employers get (so folks don't stick with jobs they hate just becuase they fear losing their health insurance), fighting carbon cap-and-trade laws, getting rid of onerous regulation that smothers small business start-ups and gives big corporations such huge advantages that it can never pencil out for smaller businesses ONLY because of unneccessary regulatory costs they're too small to absorb, etc., etc. etc.
My guess is that about 99.9 percent of the folks opposing Newt are afraid to educate themselves about what he proposes to do in Washington because then they'd have to admit that he's far and away the best guy running.
You're absolutely right. They refuse to be educated. Some even claim superior psychological insight, not based upon knowledge or facts, but upon skewed perception. They, of course, prefer the 'holier than thou' candidate.