Newt Gingrich Will Bow Out of Race

Newt Gingrich is a puzzling person. He's the kind of man who seems to be a cuddly grandfather one minute, only to become a hatchet looking for somebody to chop the next.
And that is why he was never going to get very far in his bid to become the next US President.
America almost never elects presidents who are odd in any way. If you look back over the history of the presidency, the extremists never won, nor did the wannabes who were single issue candidates - the Cross of Gold or Prohibitionists or, I dare say, today's immigration voices.
Newt is different. It's not that he is a single issue guy. He covers the range of issues important in today's world. It is just that he never seems to stay interested in any one issue long enough to bring coherence to his ideas. We know he is moderate when it comes to immigration, but we don't really have a clue what he would propose to deal with the problem. He wants to shrink government, but aside from saying he'd eliminate huge swaths of the federal bureaucracy (thus saving billions, as he puts it) while saving the military untouched, we don't really know what he is proposing. The list could go on and on.
But now that Newt Gingrich is preparing his exit speech, he becomes a different commodity.
Gingrich has ideas. He wants to help America heal herself. His talent for proposing sweeping solutions is legendary.
But, what he needs is a minder. Someone who will make him do the hard work of putting flesh on the bones of the ideas he comes up with. And, he needs someone completely objective to evaluate those fleshed-out ideas and tell Newt the truth about their viability. Many of the ideas will fall away in this process, but some will not. Some of Newt's ideas will become programs that will help America.
That is Newt Gingrich's value. It needs to be harnessed and used for the common good. Think of him as a scientist who needs engineers to get his ideas put into workable shape.
I hope the Republican Party, and Mitt Romney, will find a way to use the uncommon flair of Newt Gingrich for speaking about the dreams we all have but cannot put into words.