Gingrich supporters are backing Gingrich because they WANT four more years of Obama. They want to complain about everything and everyone because that is all they know how to do. They love to hate Obama, and what would they do without that? And they would love to see Obama shamed in his second term more than simply beating him now.
''According to GOP sources, the decision to cede the 2012 election to Obama came after rank-and-file Republicans agreed that grinding the president down to nothing and pushing him to the brink of insanity was far more in line with the Republican Party's core principles than actually controlling the White House, making laws, or governing the country.''
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-gop-strategy-involves-reelecting-obama-making,21113/