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Negative perception. When I see Santorum with his wife standing by his side, I see a woman with a strong back, yet she collected $350,000 from you and I for it by suing her chiropractor. Then there's his Specter active support.

And Rick supports her action with the same stubbornness that Mitt defends his signing onto insurance mandates!

Just a question, what did Santorum do before entering politics, did he ever have a job, will it be vetted?

Newt taught for years.

The chiropractor crushed two vertebra, told her to go home and take aspirin. He was clearly guilty of gross malfeasance. $350,000 was paid from the chiropractors insurance because he was clearly at fault. It was not paid by you or I.

I would have sued also. My wife had neck surgery for a car rear-ending her. Having hip bone taken out and a stainless steel plate screwed into your spine is not a fun endeavor. My wife now 12 years later has a normal appearance. Her neck still bothers her and her range of movement is permanently limited.

As far as Rick supporting Specter; there was an agreement that if Rick supported him that he would fight for our judicial candidates. We have two excellent Supreme Court Justices as a result. If that is not a factor for you, you can always look at Newt's support of liberal candidates versus conservative ones. There are three occasions where he has done so.

In the 2009 special election for Congress in New York’s 23rd district, Gingrich was outspoken in his support of liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava, up to the moment she finally quit the race after conservatives had rallied behind Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.

Long after most prominent conservatives had endorsed Hoffman, Gingrich held firm in his advocacy for a liberal candidate who supported Obama’s stimulus plan and the pro-union “card check” proposal, among other bad positions.
In that NY-23 race, for instance, Gingrich went so far as to attack conservatives who supported Hoffman (whom Gingrich belatedly endorsed himself), saying: “So I say to my conservative friends who suddenly decided that whether they’re from Minnesota or Alaska or Texas, they know more than the upstate New York Republicans? I don’t think so.”

Gingrich also aggressively supported and campaigned for liberal Congressman Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) when he faced a conservative challenge from current Congressman Andy Harris who won in the primary.

In 2006, Gingrich also backed liberal Congressman Joe Schwarz (R-MI) when he was challenged by the conservative candidate, Congressman Tim Walberg who won in the primary.

Regarding your question, if that is your standard then Mitt should be your guy. He has the most private enterprise (business) experience of ANY of the candidates. So if that is your standard, you may want to re-evaluate.