Gingrich is fighting Romney's money, the Republican establishment, and media enmity and he is doing so while financially embarrassed. He has little choice but to fight back when and where he can and of course whenever he does so the Charles Krauthammer's of the world cluck their tongues over negativity and meanness of spirit.
The point is that Gingrich is damned if he does and damned if he does not. Ultimately, the odds tell us that money is still the mother's milk of politics and Gingrich will eventually succumb to the forces of money and power arrayed against him.
If anyone can break out of this trap Gingrich can but it is unlikely.
One last word that most of us will not want to hear: the triumph of money over people, at least conservative people, means that we are fighting against the demographic headwind that soon will become a hurricane. Conservative "ideas" that Gingrich and you and I love are admired by the electorate in the abstract but avoided at all costs in the polling booths if they actually threaten rice bowl or purse. We blame Rino politicians and the media for the failure of our better conservative virtues to sweep the field but we are really battling human nature. We hear pundits like Rush Limbaugh tell us that conservatism is the majority American view but we actually vote our perceived self interests.
It takes a rare combination of the man of destiny and times such as occurred in 1980 and in 1994 to succeed in a counter culture election.
