That was a problem for you? Do you vote for a personality? Santorum is a blow hard - all the things Newt was for - Santorum did not want - he wanted LIBERAL Romney. He outed himself twice with taking one for the team against a Conservative and what was the best for America. Slickrick is and was in it for himself and blind R voters still can't see what was obvious.
I supported Newt Gingrich in the primaries. When he spoke on the campaign trail, I agreed with every word he said. I also knew in my heart that his name would never be at the top of the ticket. Why? because outside of the FR cheerleading section, people loath him, women especially. They loath his wife. He is old. His voice is grating. He is perpetually angry. He is uninspiring. Gingrich has great ideas and a brilliant mind. Unfortunately, he is wholly unelectable. He might make a great policymaker behind the scenes but he has no future in elective politics, not nationally anyways.
You see, there are these people out there we call "low information voters". They don't care about policies. They vote for personalities. Unfortunately for our republic, their votes count just the same as yours and mine. This is why a successful politician needs to be the complete package of policies and personality. Gingrich had one but lacked the other.