>>...Do my fellow freepers think that Sarah Palin will endorse and campaign with Newt leading up to the all-important Super Tuesday contests on March 6th?...<<
I don’t know if she will or won’t endorse - I don’t think it *should* matter. Point being: Newt needs to get this done without Palin’s help.
Why would any candidate need a crutch? I’m not saying they shouldn’t welcome endorsements from anyone (Palin or otherwise), just that they need to be able to carry their own weight.
The sad part is that this implies there are voters out there, undecided, wavering, or clueless and are looking for a celebrity to tell them how to vote. Come to think of it, that may explain why the country is in the shape it’s in.
The problem is everyone knows Newt is more conservative than Romney. The Florida polls showed that. In some states that works but in others it doesn’t. He’s losing badly to women because women are moderate on abortion and gay marriage. Palin doesn’t help him broaden his base in the primary, which is what he needs to be more competitive with Romney in the moderate states going forward like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Santorum factor is a whole ‘nother story and I have no idea how he competes with Santorum other than by doing a better job dressing down Obama in the debates. We don’t have another debate for over 2 weeks though.
He definitely has to back off calling Romney a moderate or liberal. Everyone knows that now and he can’t make any more gains that way. He has to attack Romney on electability, but subtly. I think he needs to show how he can do a better job attacking Obama than anyone else. Be strong against Obama, but work in subtle references that indicate “the other guys wouldn’t say what I’m saying” along the way.