all seemed to be leaning towards his inevitable dropping out of the race. should he drop out now? i think that, you know, he has said that he wants to keep mitt romney honest and i think what has happened to mitt romney is he has had to take so many different positions and flip flop on so many issues he has become kind of like this human pretzel and i think what newt gingrich and many conservatives are worried about is he is going to try to resenter himself and talk away from some of the conservative positions. he is trying to stay in the race to keep mitt romney honest. that is a hard since it is such a principled position i think it will be hard to get newt out and newt seems to do what newt wants to do. i would be surprised if newt jumps out. you worked with newt before perry. what do you think his motivation is? i think he wants to keep the field honest and make sure that the issues that are important to him such as the 10th amendment and smaller government continue to be