As much as we agree with his ideology, you couldn't be more correct about the person.
All the present "frontrunners" for the GOP have too much baggage but Newt is buried underneath a mountain of attache cases.
It would be like the Dems electing Dean in regards to media coverage. We just can't throw them a bone like Newt...or Rudy...or McCain.
Does Romney have any skeletons in his closet?
I don't think so. His potential problem is that he is a Mormon. I would hope that the country wouldn't be predjudiced against him for that, but I am not sure. He does not seem to have involved his religion in his governing thus far.
Harry Reid is a Mormon and the 'rats don't seem to care. Of course they depend on their non-elite constituency to be uninformed so that doesn't prove anything.