Romney was not even conservative, but always a fraud and just a politician. Newt was and is conservative and had the best plans out of all the candidates. Saint Rick might have had plans, but you never heard about them, because he ran a campaign of kissing up to Evangelicals, even to the point that his Issues page on his website headlined the horrors of Pornography, but didn't say crap about economics or much else.
That's why he lost to Mittens.
Newt went down due to the treachery of Matt Drudge putting out all those false anti-Newt stories, all later debunked, but far too late. Hush Bimbo and the rest of the talking heads didn't raise a finger to back him up.
And no he wouldn’t have beaten Obama.
Yes, he would have. Newt was a better debater than Romney and willing to put up a fight. Mittens was doomed from the start because he was a filthy cult leader and a liar who turned off all his voters.
Newt lost when attacked Romney from the left on Bain Capital, turning off conservatives.
After that he was coming in 3rd or 4th to Paul in most contests and yet some fools here were still supporting him over the only viable anti-Romney, thanks a lot.
He ran a horrible race, no way he would have beaten Obama.