Texas GOP prefers Newt for President.

...... Disappointed in current GOP front runners!

The DMN has a good article discussing how the SREC (State Republican Executive Committee) like many Texas republicans are luke warm on the current presidential GOP Hopefuls. The general consensus is that we'd like to see someone in the mold of Ronald Reagan. Thus, Speaker Newt!

By WAYNE SLATER
AUSTIN – None of the GOP presidential front-runners has generated much support among Republican Party loyalists in Texas, whose early favorite to head the ticket in 2008 hasn't even announced – Newt Gingrich.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have few enthusiastic backers on the State Republican Executive Committee.
Support for Arizona Sen. John McCain in the party's governing body appears near zero, according to The Dallas Morning News canvass of committee members.
"I can definitely tell you that if John McCain were the candidate, I probably wouldn't vote," said Ellen Guthrie, a committee member from Tyler. REST OF STORY