Yes. The Dems fear Newt MUCH more than Romney. Romney won’t attack. Newt will.
And Newt is more than likely willing to go out and grab Herman Cain or Allen West as his VP. That also keeps Dems up at night. Romney will more than likely pick Huntsman as his VP.
Seriously? If (God forbid!) Romney gets the not and picks Huntsman as his running mate, do you think they'll campaign door-to-door on bikes?
It seems to me that Romney is the DLC/media combine’s designated gentleman loser for this cycle, the Democrats’ dream opponent who can be painted as a Wall Street fatcat whitebread square who also belongs to a weird, fringe cult (that’s how they’ll portray the LDS Church, folks), and who won’t demean himself by actually attacking Obama or reminding anybody that he’s a radical Marxist Amerikkka-hater who wants to destroy the country.
Newt, on the other hand, will be smeared as a short, white-haired, irrelevant has-been up to his elbows in lobbying cash who’s been married too many times and who doesn’t play well with others. But he will go after Obama hammer and tongs. So, if we’re destined to lose either way, I’d rather go down swinging.
Gingrich would never pick Cain. Cain was beating Gingrich until a media smear. I doubt Cain would be on Gingrich's ticket, after what he did to him.