you are so corect!! I have always admired Newtster and HE WAS my first choice.
Mittens ripped Newt in FL and everyone in the GOPe dumped on him, too.
I think what really brought down Newt was Rush Limbaugh, who never seemed to like him much to begin with and then took that Bain ad and ran with it, announcing that Gingrich was “opposed to capitalism” for questioning Romney’s business ethics.
This was after personal attacks on Gingrich from the Romney campaign and the fact that Romney was presenting himself as a “small businessman,” implying that he was just a little Mormon mom and pop operation selling bottled water somewhere in the Utah desert and not part of a rather savage venture (vulture) capital firm founded by a group of already wealthy young B-school grads.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but it clearly means that Romney’s life experience is different from that of most people and that he should have been honest about it. This same issue is still plaguing him, and has nothing to do with Gingrich.
But I swear Rush sometimes only half-hears things and he simply gets them wrong, says something off the top of his head, and then will never admit that it was a mistake and only ups the volume. He was the one who really destroyed Gingrich among conservatives and gave the Dems another, completely misleading way to attack Newt.