I think he can deal with most of the issues pretty well now. When this campaign first started he hadn't brushed up on "current events" very well and sounded very dated ~ we had some people here convinced he'd turned into some kinda' commie or something due to his ineptitude with current Conservative thought on various policies.
Remember, not everything that's important is always on the agenda. Not everything on the agenda is important. That's true in a lot of things and for all practical purposes Newt had been too focused on the inconsequentals that earn the big bucks ~ he missed out on our transition from the Culture War to Fiscal Responsibility and Fighting Communism (what the battle against Obama and his running dog lackeys would have been called in Eisenhower's day).
I remember when he tried to say something about Illegal Aliens ~ back when he left off politics as a full time occupation they were talking about the "need" to give them driver's licenses. He simply wasn't prepared for the demand to SEND THEM BACK HOME.
He's changed since then but he still seems hung up on the "Dream Plan" ~ which is garbage no matter how you spell it.
I think we can get across to him that the "Dream Plan" is not as good as just giving them a drivable but older car and a full tank of gas and telling them how I35 goes toward the boarder "so get there".
To the question of whether or not Gingrich can win, I've noticed he has a great deal of practice talking to young people.
Obama hasn't ~ at least not in any give and take way. He's what you call a "lecturer". Newt is a "professor" and he is prepared for class.
We have 26 million unemployed young people who need jobs and a future. That's what this campaign is about ~ peeling off that faction in all of its many manifestations from the Democrat coalition ~ and getting them out to vote Republican for every single position up for election this year.
The only way we can save them is to literally dispose of the Democrat party!
I want to do it justice and reply in detail when I have more time, but I very much appreciate not being called a bot or a troll or someone needing a sandwich (which, if you saw me, I obviously don't!).
It's something new every day, and often the new idea seems more colored by political opportunity than by practicality. How else to explain his savaging of the Ryan plan? Or his attack on corporate layoffs if a private investment company (with the name "Bain") happens to be involved? His hanging out on the third ring of economic hell, Fannie Mae? His support of, God forbid, "climate change" regulation?
Even if Newt had a good humored, Reaganesque personality, I'd be as worried about him betraying conservatives once in office as I am about Romney. But he doesn't have that personality. He's irascible, pompous, and petty. Often. I don't think he can win with that.