From GOP consultant Alex Castellanos, on the 2012 presidential race.
Campaigns don’t pick candidates; they make candidates. Kill the king, become the king. Stand up to power and power becomes yours. This is the moment for a new generation of Republicans to release the past and inherit the future.It's not just the Gingrich. It's pretty much every serious GOP presidential candidate. Romney felt the need to suddenly become a neanderthal, denying his decades of gay rights support, and turning on his own health care reform success story in Massachusetts because it was a tad too much like President Obama's, all because he wanted to be the nominee of a party controlled by fellow neanderthals at any cost. Giuliani, same story. Now Rudy is suddenly anti-gay (ish). Sure he is. You don't win GOP nominations, to the presidency, a congressional seat, or much else by caring for much of anyone who isn't rich.
The opponent Obama needs to run against, the only one he can beat, is the old, uncaring Republican. It is not a caricature he needs to create. It lives, it walks, it breathes. It’s the Gingrich. In this operatic campaign of seduction, he is the devil in a red dress, a temptress who would lead Republicans to ruin.
