Gingrich would have destoryed Obama in the general. It’s people like you that gave us this miketoast Romney that is getting his clock cleaned
The guy couldn't even see his roles in his two biggest Federal positions to completion -- having stepped down as House Speaker in 1998 before resigning from his House seat in 1999. For this guy to crawl out from the swamp of Washington D.C. 13 years later and present himself as a credible presidential candidate was a complete joke.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but a lot of these people (I'll even include Rick Santorum in the mix) see the Federal government as an enormous industry, and they make careers out of lobbying Congress and occasionally launching a pointless "political campaign" for the sole purpose of promoting themselves and living at the expense of campaign donors for months at a time.
Say what you want about Romney, but you'd have a hard time including him in that group of hacks.