On this particuliar issue, Newt is better than the other major candidates. If we can believe what we says.
On the issue of energy independence, I think Giuliani would be the lesser of the evils. He has said that nothing is more important in the next few years than starting an Apollo-type crash program to make America energy independent. And we know from when he was Mayor of New York that when he puts his mind to doing something, Giuliani can be a very effective leader.
But on immigration, abortion, homosexual "rights" and gun control, Giuliani is awful.
Romney is such an obvious phony, I just can't believe anything he says.
And Fred Thompson is the worst, in my opinion. "Conservatives" want him to run without knowing anything about him. He is like his evil leftwing mentor Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader from Tennessee, who supported the amnesty for illegal aliens in the 1980s, opposed Ronald Reagan for being "too rightwing", and was adored by the Bolshevik news media for being a "moderate" (leftist). Thompson worked for Baker and supported him for president. Thompson's best friend in the Senate was John McCain.
The choices all stink. We will be stuck with supporting a "lesser of the evils" once again.