The Gallup numbers are simply stunning: asked to name the "main person who speaks for the Republican Party today," Republicans across the country are most likely to name three men: Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Cheney. With national ideological leadership like that, who needs opposition research to further erode the hold of conservatism on the national body politic? And who can argue with the Moderate Voice's Tony Campbell:
At least Gingrich is toning down his Twitter usage, according to the Washington Post, after his disastrous "Latina woman racist" Tweet.