I would think you would need a bank full of money to run as an Independent. Newt does not have that kind of money.
He has a billionaire backer.
Flyover country has plenty of money.
Remember Christine O’Donnell’s massive campaign donations, which *poured* in almost overnight?
For a small seat, in a small state, which very few people have even been to? That one brave, perhaps imperfect but nevertheless heroic woman stood against the GOP “establishment”.
And was suddenly rolling in campaign donations.
Imagine that, multiplied by all the frustration out in real America.