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Gingrich ran a remarkable and nearly successful primary campaign in no small part based on exposing the media for its bias. As a result the issue of media bias and the difficulty of getting through it to prevail in an election became thoroughly understood, at least by the conservative base, and no doubt by much of the Republican electorate. That is all to the good.

Since then we have learned, especially from Mark Levin, that our difficulties are not limited to a biased media but extend throughout the very structure of the Republican establishment.

As one who supported Gingrich very early on, I applaud his observations that Republicans must make an affirmative case which extends beyond mere opposition to Obama if they are to prevail in the next election. However, this is not news, this is but conventional wisdom and I would've expected more from Gingrich by way of offering solutions. He probably did in his speech because that would be in keeping with his custom and it probably was not reported in this article. I would not be surprised that the media does not believe itself to be in the business of offering its bandwidth for solutions about how to defeat Democrats.

In any event, we now must think about Mark Levin's solution which is inchoate in the public mind so far but at first review must at least be saluted for its originality. By going to the states to fashion constitutional amendments to restore the original intent of the Constitution, he offers an end run around the Republican establishment as well as Washington Democrats. That is not to say that it will succeed, merely that it is innovative and brilliant.

Mark Levin himself is brilliant but one man alone cannot carry this burden. He will find aligned against him all the powerful elements of the media, the Democrats, and the Republican establishment. He needs articulate and enthusiastic allies like Gingrich could be.

We shall see.