Man vs Machine

Despite Newt's many infidelities, E.D. Kain prefers Gingrich to Romney:

Romney, I’m quite certain now, has no soul. Gingrich may have made bad choices – his soul may be black in a few spots – but he has one. He’s a human being at the very least, warts and all. Romney is a machine at best, a blank slate willing to say and do anything to get elected.

Chait explains the Romney way:

As in every election he has ever run, Romney has studied the impulses of the electorate to which he is appealing and molded himself to it. He has nearly mastered the technique of turning every question into an answer about how Obama has destroyed America. At one point, Time’s Michael Crowley tweeted, "You could accuse Mitt Romney of murdering a drifter in Laredo and he'd respond with an attack on Obama." Moments later, asked to name his biggest mistake of the campaign, Romney answered that he wished he talked more about Obama, because of the socialism.