The Republican primary just keeps on giving, and I have a feeling Newt Gingrich is going to be an enormous asset for the Democrats. In just a few weeks as the new frontrunner, he’s managed to force Mitt Romney into a position that Democrats have been dreaming of for months.

We all know that Mitt Romney will take any position on any issue if it will get him elected. But in trying to go on the offensive against Gingrich, he just made a colossal mistake, and you can be sure the Democrats won’t let him flip-flop on this. Romney just said he would sign Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare. You know, the one 80 percent of voters disapprove of.

Frankly, I think this is all most Americans will need to know about Mitt Romney in a general election. He’s done.

Of course, it may turn out that Gingrich actually defeats Romney and gets the nomination himself, in which case this doesn’t help us. But Newt Gingrich as the GOP candidate would be a train wreck as well. However it plays out, Obama’s re-election chances just improved dramatically.