Newt Gingrich, probably one of the most brilliant political tacticians and strategists of our generation, would be completely WASTED as VP. Why would you relegate him to such a dead-end job? But Chief of Staff, on the other hand, and now you’re talking!
The rap against Newt when he was speaker was he was brilliant and a tremendous forward thinker - kind of a chessplayer as a strategist.
But —
He was absolutely unable to organize his time or his mouth.
The worst possible traits for Chief of Staff, especially for a President Trump who would come in knowing less about our system of government than any president in history.