Destroying Newt Gingrich might be easy. Winning with Mitt Romney? Not so much. (Chris Keane/Reuters)
Cockiness from Camp Romney:
A top aide to Mr. Romney predicted that the Gingrich bubble would deflate as others before it have. “You don’t have to go deep here,” the aide said, referring to controversial stances and personal baggage from Mr. Gingrich’s past. “It ranges from immigration to ethics to being a Washington insider to Freddie Mac to you pick them.”
But none of that's new—Gingrich has been getting hammered on Freddie Mac in particular and it hasn't hurt him one bit with Republican primary voters. Perhaps on paper, you'd expect Gingrich to be in last place ... but he's not. He's in first. But even if the Romney aide is ultimately right and Gingrich drops like Rick Perry telling Republicans they are heartless, the thing they still haven't explained is this: other than surviving a process of elimination, how does Mitt Romney actually plan to win the GOP nomination?