I am wide awake...haven’t got around to the speech yet (just a clip - I got called away from the computer right after Santorum congratulated Newt), but I’m still not all that convinced that something in Newt’s past won’t come back to bite him. In that case we need an alternative to prevent handing the nomination to the likes of Paul or Slick Willard.
Oh come on. He's the most vetted of the bunch. Face it, it's either Newt or Romney and keeping a "bullpen" is not really an option. So yeah, we keep a back-up "just in case" and we risk the nomination. Sorry, but this is NOT how you win things!