He seems to really like Santorum and started his hints he would vote pubbie when Rick started to soar. Romney would be ok as well, but his wife hates Newt. She will be the deciding factor. She was a local election supervisor and a huge dem. Really nice lady, but definitely a hopeless dem. She and I are on are on a banquet committee together. Both are Catholics, and she used to teach art in our parochial school, back when my boys went there. I have known them forever. Nice people.
Newt has haters, no way around that. The calculus has to be who would bring in enough republicans AND independents, and the more right-leaning dems.