I'm not sure that's true, for i think they do fear Gingrich. Yes, they will try to make him out as "a crazy Nazi" but they'd play that game with anyone to the right of Romney. Gingrich though is the one most capable of fighting back. No disrespect to Bachmann, Perry, or Santorum, but Gingrich is much more a master at combating a hostile media.
The bottom line is that we have to take the fight to the media or we'll always be under their thumb. It is time to take a stand. Or rather, it's high time to put the media on the stand. To put them on the defensive lest they come off as too one-sided. For that's the only way we're going to win in the long run. For if we go with Romney out of fear of what the media will do with a conservative candidate, then the media will have gained even greater power over us.
And besides, the more often they paint conservative Republicans as the "bad guy", the more people are going to realize that the media has it in for all conservatives, that they are by and large an extension of the left wing of the democrat party and are a power in their own right that needs to be held accountable for their not-so-hidden agendas.
What they did to Herman Cain isn't proof of their power over us? You're not going to do any thing to the media until people quit watching their entire networks en masse and let them know that their constant propaganda spewing is why they are tuning out. That's not going to happen because even conservatives are not going to give up their sports, their DWTS, their American Idol etc.....
I desperately don't want BO for another four years. My nerves and blood pressure won't take it. But, I am trying to look at each one of our remaining candidates objectively and make a rational decision of who has the best chance of beating BO. (Cain was my man.) I am not going to go off half cocked with support for any one person just yet because they have catchy things to say (even if I agree).
I am developing a point system of various issues as I think they will be perceived by the public in general. Take for example the issue that tanked Cain. Marriage. Just looking at BO, Newt and Mitt lets see how they line up:
Mitt: Married 42 years. No scandals that we know of gets +1
Newt: Married three times which wouldn't be so bad if the previous two marriages hadn't been adulterous and our potential next first lady also an adulterer. Not going to sound well that he hunted Bill Clinton for infidelity while cheating on his second wife who by the way has an axe to grind and has already been excoriating him. I give Newt -3
BO: Married 19 years to same woman. Gets +1
Even though it's been rumored that BO is a closet homosexual and his marriage to Mooch was a coupling of ‘down-low’ (closeted) gay black men with embittered, hard-to-match black women by Rev. Jeremiah Wright no one in the media will touch the story. So the picture painted for the general public by the media is ‘happy marriage’.