COMMENTARY | I hadn't quite made up my mind whom I'd support in the GOP 2012 primary and was leaning toward Newt Gingrich when the attacks on Bain Capital started.
It wasn't so much that I'm this great capitalist or anything. It's just that the economy works a certain way, and struggles to be free of government interference.
Moreover, the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union made it all clear enough. The "dictatorship of the proletariat" was exposed as a hoax.
Newt Gingrich knows that well enough, yet he persisted in his attacks on Bain Capital. Further straining credulity were his awkward attempts at making a distinction between "good venture capitalism" and "bad venture capitalism."
To Gingrich, an example of "good venture capitalism" would be the type that would fund a moon colony think tank, creating jobs for academic astronauts.
The latest Gallup/USA Poll of twelve key swing states has it that Mitt Romney was even with President Obama by a margin of error.
The South Carolina rebellion has already been overshadowed by Romney's Florida and Nevada romps as it becomes clear that Romney is a pragmatic conservative choice.
Meanwhile, there is the group of people whom Washington Post writer Jennifer Rubin calls "The Performers." Their "true conservative" remote control candidate, Newt Gingrich, is skittering out of control.
Still, if Gingrich has a singular talent, it is that of going for the political jugular. The problem, for Gingrich, is that it doesn't seem to matter whose jugular it is, including his own.
After being trounced in Iowa, Florida, and Nevada, Gingrich's petulant concession speeches have put him under the microscope. Many Gingrich supporters have consequently judged him small, bitter, and insignificant. Now they are running to the Santorum side of the boat.
Meanwhile, the deepest fears of President Obama's hometown crowd in Chicago are being realized as Republicans are concluding that Romney could inject confidence into a country that failed to respond to frequent feedings of presidential and Federal Reserve Bank stimulus.
Yes, you could focus on the latest 8.3 % unemployment figure and trumpet a big turnaround due to the president's policies, but the problem is that almost no one believes it. The work force has been decimated to the point that a slight uptick in a smaller sampling does not translate to "recovery."
Democrats have to be scared, having failed to nip Romney's campaign before it gained momentum.
Anthony Ventre is a freelance writer who has written for weekly and daily newspapers and several online publications. He is a frequent Yahoo contributor, concentrating in news and financial writing.
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