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The realization by a greater number of people that Newt Gingrich is the smartest, best-informed candidate in the debating room (or almost any room, for that matter) has helped Newt advance dramatically in the GOP presidential polls. Likewise, the former Speaker's calm, down-to-earth approach to complicated issues, one that enables much dimmer intellectual lights than he to clearly understand and appreciate his thoughts, has also won him new supporters. 

Perhaps more importantly, if there were zero political difference between Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama, the aforementioned qualities alone would endear Newt to not-so-agenda-driven voters who are as much fed up with the current White House occupier's elitist attitude, condescending tone and demagogic rhetoric as they are by his inability to provide leadership and prosperity.

Of course, Herman Cain's media-smear slump has helped Gingrich.  However, if Cain's loss of supporters is the sole reason for the spike in Newt's popularity, then Mitt Romney's poll numbers (and perhaps other candidates') would also have improved just as dramatically with the former frontrunner's decline.  Romney's numbers, while remaining fairly strong, had flat-lined at their current level months ago.

By far and away the smartest thing Newt Gingrich has done, thus far, is to go straight at the mainstream media, literally portraying them as biased, elitist shills right to their faces and in front of their own cameras.  The improvement in Newt's numbers is mostly the result of the interesting media backlash that he has tapped into, if not created. 

Again, the proof that Gingrich's candidacy has taken hold is that Romney would have come up just many poll points as Newt with Cain's fall if there were not other forces at work in the Newt 2012 Campaign.

Another dimension of Newt's best defense is a good offense strategy against the MSM/Obama administration tag team is that he now has the upper hand whenever they arbitrarily attack him.  Not only can he say "I told you so!" when this occurs but he now can also point to the mainstream media smear tactics that quashed Herman Cain's front-running momentum.  Furthermore, in his new status as a top-tier candidate, nearly any media exposure is good media exposure for a campaigner with a comparatively small war chest. 

If ousting Obama is Job #1 as the entire Republican field agrees, then knocking the media off its shill pedestal by any means necessary -- to include using their own left-wing tactic of demonizing the opposition -- must be done before the general election.

Not only is Newt Gingrich showing his colleagues how Newtering the Media works but the polls indicate that his anti-media message is resonating with voters, as well.

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