A populist did not get us the Contract for America and win the House in 1994—a visionary swimming against the tide did. For the previous 40 years, going along to get along was the way the Republicans became a permenant minority.
Newt doesn’t kiss people’s rear ends—he stakes a position and defends it. The popular opinion is that he needs to exit the race—so he stays in it!
He is the only Republican who will debate Obama right off the stage. He has set the tone of this campaign—look at the topic of energy for the past month. Obama had to respond to whom—Romney? No, he had to respond to Newt, and Newt gave it right back to him.
That is exactly what we need right now.
Then why did he get so few votes in the primaries? I like Newt, and I'd be glad to see him as our nomineee, but apparently, millions of GOP voters didn't see it that way.