Daniels, Christie, and Romney are all cut from the same cloth - Liberal.
Republican VOTERS do not want any of them; the “elite establishment” want them in order to prevent us ordinary “un-elites” from taking away their status.
All the more reason to unite behind Newt.
Daniels governs as a true conservative, and is more reliable on that score than any of the candidates remaining. His "flaw" is that he doesn't use red-meat rhetoric, and believes that you implement true conservative legislation by having a focused approach that hits one issue at a time. He believes in divide and conquer, and the results are something no real conservative should be arguing with. He is a good Christian family man, pro-life, etc.
But he missed his chance to run because his wife didn't want him to. He may deserve criticism for that, but claims the guy is a liberal, or even a moderate, just demonstrate that people are unfamiliar with his actual record, and choose their candidates by sound-bite alone.