By ALEXANDER BURNS | 12/9/11 10:42 AM EST Updated: 12/9/11 6:57 PM EST
The conservative opinion elite has reached a consensus on Newt Gingrich: He’s not the one they’ve been waiting for.
In the days since Gingrich leaped to the forefront of the Republican presidential race, the nation’s most prominent right-leaning commentators — many of whom have spent the last year pining for alternatives to Mitt Romney — have rendered a swift and caustic judgment on their party’s latest out-of-right-field challenger.
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