Yup, you hit it on the head. Newt can’t hope to win any major office anymore, but he is a brain trust with a real understanding of where the party needs to go, policy-wise. He’d make a very strong RNC chair, IMHO.
I am with you on this. I just posted something close to this on Newt’s website: www.newt.org
Getting bogged down with the baggage that the far right has demanded for their support has been the undoing of the GOP. No one except you, Sir, has been strong enough to state very clearly what needs done to rebuild the GOP. Your logical goal of creating a “center right” party concerned with fiscal responsibility and good governance makes sense. You also understand that personal conservative issues make a lot of sense in the local electorate but almost never can carry over to the national level.