I wrote in Thompson at the last minute, because even though I liked Palin, (And intended to vote McCain on her behalf) I just could not force myself to vote for McNasty. With the split vote in 2008, it was a disaster anyway, and I knew that the Left would likely win.
Newt was a gift on a par with Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan to the conservative movement or the salvation of real America BACK IN THE EARLY NINETIES.
Now he is old obese and ugly and even if he talks like Thomas Jefferson he comes across as a clever stand up comic Lou Costello to America's MSM brain damaged majority...and we can't win a serious race with just that.