The biggest problem for Newt is that people perceive him as a braggart, an authoritarian, and opportunistic.
He didn’t run because he thought he would have a chance, thats why he took off during his “campaign” to go on a cruise with Calista as his staff abandoned him in disgust, he ran because it ups the price for speeches and such.
Even during the first debates this time, right here on FR, people said he was a good debater, but he was Newt the RINO.
Now all at once he is a stalwart conservative hero. LOL
The biggest problem for Newt is that as one of our most effective conservative leaders in history, the media set out to destroy him from the beginning.
There has never been a time when the media was not hammering an anti Gingrich message at you, not during his entire career.
In a head to head presidential race against Obama, Newt would spend 500 million dollars and have himself to show in front of the public as the Republican alternative, the true visionary, and the contrast between a man of history and the weak, pretender of the Democrats.
Man against man, Obama is no match against Gingrich.
That is something that the white Obamas could not do, nondescript attorneys both of them.