[MamaB]

I am tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils and I will write in Gen. Ben Raines if Newt is our nominee.

[Al B.]

Newt will likely be the nominee if Palin chooses not to run. He's not a regional candidate, he has connections to the conservative movement from his days as the leader of the young turks in the House during the Reagan years, and he can raise the money. He will lay claim to be the real heir to the Reagan legacy and the press will gleefully help him to achieve that.

Craig Shirley, a charter member of the Reagan Revolution and the author of 2 outstanding books on Reagan's 1976 and 1980 campaigns, is currently writing an authorized biography of Gingrich. The timing is no accident. He's running and he would leave Mitt Romney, for instance, in his dust.