Perfect summary of Gingrich’s appeal:

…voters felt that Gingrich had put Fox News’ Juan Williams in his place for suggesting that Gingrich might have been racially insensitive when he called President Obama a “food stamp president.” As one voter told me, “When I hear the Juans of the world, I get upset.” Source…

Also see: Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Resentment

Racial resentment. Poor, poor oppressed white folks. Someone (liberal, feminist, environmentalist, scientist, socialist, gay, secularist, Muslim, black, brown) is always stealing what belongs to them and they want it back. Gingrich is Palin, but with more education & political experience.

This is gonna get really, really ugly.