Not to mention the fact that Newt would destroy Biden in the VP debates.
Destroying the opposition in debates is not the goal. Nobody watches them but us. Winning the votes of the uninformed american electorate is. . . they happen to be the majority.
Newt and Rick couldn’t be more polarizing to the masses of uninformed on the other side of the aisle, who get their news from the old media. Wish it wasn’t so, but it is.