Rich Lowry
A successful presidential candidate taps into the public mood. Newt Gingrich must be hoping the public is bristling with irritation and high dudgeon.
At the Republican debate on the economy, Gingrich eyed CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo the way Franklin Roosevelt might have looked at Adm. Yamamoto had the Japanese commander been selected to moderate a foreign-policy debate shortly after Pearl Harbor.
A lawyer argues the law when he doesn’t have the facts on his…