Newt Gingrich, piñata.  Expect it -- now that Gingrich is enjoying rough parity with Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in the polls.  Expect Gingrich to start taking whacks from his GOP competitors and their allies.  What's curious is if the left and fossil media join in the Newt-whacking now or wait.  Gingrich is also starting to enjoy some good ink from conservative writers.  Ed Morrissey opines at The Week that Gingrich is the real deal.  Jeffrey Lord, writing yesterday at The American Spectator, floats the notion that the former Speaker might be an American Churchill.  Jonah Goldberg pens a more measured assessment of Gingrich's upswing at National Review Online.  While Goldberg acknowledges "this could be Gingrich's moment," he also writes: It's an open question whether Gingrich can defeat Obama in 2012. It's taken as a truism that he has "too much baggage." Well, some of the baggage is lighter than it appears. He was cleared by the Clinton-era...(Read Full Post)