"Newt has too much baggage for whom? Not me! And apparently a lot of other people feel the same......"
You know, they all have baggage. Allen self destructed, he was the only clean conservative. So I might give Newt a look, at least in the primaries to keep the others honest.
Newt has the advantage of the experience of being destroyed by the DemocRATS and MSM once, and learning from it.
But, yeah, I thought Allen might be the guy, possibly, but he is going to need a few years at minimum to rehabilitate after that debacle.
Oh, he would definitely be an interesting primary candidate, in the same mold as Alan Keyes or Steve Forbes or Al Sharpton or Dennis Kucinich. You gotta have some candidates who don't have a hope of winning the nomination, but who can keep their issues on the table and frame the debate.