Gingrich and Romney run against their own party

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

Exit Mike Huckabee. Enter Newt Gingrich. Exit Donald Trump. It's been a busy week in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
A few questions remain to be answered. Enter Mitch Daniels? Exit Sarah Palin?

But already two of the best-known candidates seem bent on ruling themselves out of contention.

One is Newt Gingrich. He's being denounced for his comments on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Charles Krauthammer on Fox News.

Ryan's Medicare plan was part of the budget resolution that all Republicans but four voted for in the House. It is for all practical purposes the platform of the Republican Party. And Gingrich seemed to trash it.

He did so in response to a tendentious question from "Meet the Press' " David Gregory, who asked whether Republicans "ought to buck the public opposition" and "really move forward to completely change Medicare"?

The smart response would have been to challenge the premises of Gregory's question. The Ryan plan is not necessarily unpopular; public sentiment depends heavily on how poll questions are worded. And the plan wouldn't completely change Medicare. The current system would remain in effect for everyone now 55 and over.

[AceRimmer]

Newt and Mitt got into a gunfight with themselves and both pulled the trigger at the same time. For Newt it's probably fatal, but Romney's not far behind in his self-inflicted wound...