An expert on the base's mind – since he helped create it – Gingrich is a natural current Republican whereas Romney merely seems to be playing one. This is a great line from a must-read by Elias Isquith:
Really, he is today’s GOP: white, male, wealthy, Southern, pension-aged, devout, and, perhaps most importantly, unapologetically combative.
In the campaign for the president of talk radio, he's miles ahead. But his genius flattery of his audience and cooptation of their total contempt for Obama is where he soars.
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