Newt Gingrich: Achilles' heel of the far right

The conservatives in South Carolina did not care to look to the long-term when voting for Newt Gingrich. Gingrich won 40 percent of the primary vote, beating Mitt Romney who garnered only 27 percent.

The fact is, South Carolinians demonstrated they value of cutting insults and personal jabs far more than politics.

Tea Party conservatives desperately want to endorse a candidate who they believe will attack President Obama forcefully and intellectually. This ideal for many conservatives does not mean discussing economic policy, foreign policy and such, but instead consists of anger and name-calling toward the government and Obama. The voters of South Carolina did not vote for Romney because they believe Romney is too nice.

Some of Gingrich's most interesting statements of late toward Obama consist of calling Obama the "food-stamp president" and stating that Obama "is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together (his agenda)."

His policy also aims to cut any spending the far-right would deem wasteful or liberal. For example, in regards to schoolchildren in less economically healthy neighborhoods, Newt wants the children to become the janitors and get paid for it. According to Newt, "(In) a very poor neighborhood, you have kids who are, under law, required to go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit in the clerical office and greet people when they came in?"

Gingrich added to his statement by saying "Fine. So what if (children) became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom. And you pay them." How awful. While the rest of the first world nations value education, some would have only the upper classes educated.

Part of Newt's strategy is to strategically place blame, to blame those whom conservatives don't like. Who better to blame than the hated, supposedly liberal media? Rush Limbaugh recently stated, "The days of being able to keep this momentum going by ripping on the media are over. The standing ovations for taking on the media are over, or they have very short lifespan."

Even the mainstream conservative media is shocked and annoyed by the apparent lack of consideration Romney is garnering. Gingrich is attacking Romney's time at Bain Capital and his tax returns; Gingrich is taking one of Romney's key agenda setting tools and turning it against him. Meanwhile, Obama can sit back and watch Gingrich destroy his party.

Commentator Limbaugh has also compared Gingrich to Elizabeth Warren for his attacks on Romney's wealth. "Newt is not sounding like a conservative when he's making these attacks. He's not giving people reason to vote for him."

Chris Matthews of MSNBC was right in his election night coverage last week.

"The Right has won," he said.

Well, at least in South Carolina. The Republican establishment should be wary of the Tea Party and those who pander to them. The far-right is fickle, and the Republican Party may taste the bitterness.