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Newt is not the Ross Perot of this election. Ross Perot was a third party kook, not a top tier candidate running in the GOP primary. Mr. Newt has been doggedly pressing on from the beginning, getting his message out, and never wavering. Because that dishonest lying worthless Romney hit him repeatedly below the belt and (perhaps temporarily) knocked him from his front runner status does not make him another Ross Perot whose wounds were entirely self inflicted; indeed that crackpot was only in the race to elect Bill Clinton, he most certainly was not in it to win.

If Santorum or Romney or another Republican should win the nomination, and if Newt THEN decided to run as a third party candidate, and then IF he found himself at the top of the polls projected to be the likely winner, decided then to act like a flake and a screwball, dropping out for the stupidest and most unbelievable of reasons, and then coming back in just in time to take just enough votes away from the GOP candidate by people who were not thinking quite straight, therefore ensuring an Obama win, then the comparison would be apt.

Newt has endured enough slander and slime, he certainly does not deserve to be called a Ross Perot.

Mr. Newt has been doggedly pressing on from the beginning, getting his message out, and never wavering.

That is not true. Newt gave an interview today, after addressing a Hispanic leadership event in Los Angeles, with the press today where he said straight up that most of his woes in polls and losing contests was directly related to him being off message. He explained that all the time going after Romney was damaging. That is why he is restating again that he is going to focus on policy.