“But you will fall for anything that has Newt as the villain.”
Maybe Newt IS the villain?
As you point out - Santorum doesn’t get over the top with or without Newt - which is why I believe that Newt is such a villain, such an egotist that he will throw his support to Romney to advance himself.
Would you not agree that would be a villainous act?
You simply cannot rule it out with Newt - no matter how much you’d like to say that THIS time he stands on principle.
I like Newt because, unlike Santorum, he's going after Obama pretty hard. He points out his Alinsky ways, how the food stamps program has grown, etc. I have not yet seen Santorum really take it to obama.
You are WRONG, WRONG and then WRONG.
Newt and Rick stay in, deny Romney the delegates to clinch. Then, right before an OPEN CONVENTION, Newt makes a deal with Rick, NOT MITT. Rick and Newt will decide which one leads and where the other one will serve.
Newt has repeatedly stated during the debates, indeed it has been his overriding claim that "Any of the candidates on this stage would be vastly preferable to four more years of Obama."
So if he ever were to support Romney, a man whom Newt clearly dislikes and does not respect, I would see that as a heroic stand on his principles, not an act of villainy.