By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/9/11 10:42 AM EST Updated: 12/9/11 6:57 PM EST
The conservative opinion elite has reached a consensus on Newt Gingrich: He’s not the one they’ve been waiting for.
In the days since Gingrich leaped to the forefront of the Republican presidential race, the nation’s most prominent right-leaning commentators — many of whom have spent the last year pining for alternatives to Mitt Romney — have rendered a swift and caustic judgment on their party’s latest out-of-right-field challenger.
Are we talking about the same "elite" that so successfully stopped all those '10 Tea Party primary challengers winning the party nominations?
I don't blame the Elite's panic, but their containment efforts aren't working so far.
Of course the irony is, Ron Paul might end up being their savior if he can win Iowa.
(Come to think of it, one good benefit if Newt wins the nom: His swift and inevitable public punishment of Karl Rove. Reap what you sow, mother fucker!)
