Republican front-runner Mitt Leatherface Romney has yet to convince his more conservative brethren that he is the man to take on President Barack Obama in November and some are looking for somebody–anybody–to come along and push him out of the race.

Evidently, many die-hard conservatives and Tea Party people think Romney will say anything to get a vote and because of that, those people feel they can’t trust him to stay a right wing extremist, as he’s basically promised to do, if they help him get elected president. That’s bad news for Romney because people had just stopped thinking about his mysterious Mormon beliefs just long enough to give him a chance and now it appears a lot of folks still don’t like him.

Romney’s detractors also aren’t buying that he can beat Obama, especially since recent polls show him trailing the president by as many as 6 percentage points. Rumor has it that other Republicans are thinking about jumping into the race to save the party from Romney since his candidacy is starting to look shaky as hell.

Former womanizing House Speaker and present Republican presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich turned into a blabbering, blubbering old queen as he discussed his late mother and her health struggles with a crowd in Iowa recently. Heartwarmingly, Newt intertwined the tragic story of his mother’s struggles with a bipolar condition and brain disease with his own policy views:

“I identify my mother with, uh, being happy, loving life, having a sense of joy in her friends,” he said. “But what she introduced me to is, late in her life, she ended up in a long-term care facility. She had bipolar disease and depression, and she gradually acquired some physical ailments.”

“And that introduced me to the whole issue of quality long-term care,” he said. “My whole emphasis on brain science comes in directly from dealing with — um.”–(HuffPost)

And that’s when the tears came. I’m all for a touching story but did Newt just use his dead Mama as a political prop? That’s just tacky as hell.

And it all might have been a waste of his time; even though Newt touched many tender hearts with this very endearing story, his poll numbers are still dropping faster than a stripper’s G-string: Just days before the pivotal Iowa caucuses, various polls are showing the Georgia native falling to near-fourth place in the highly contested primary.