It will likely be impossible to find bigger smiles on any faces in the nation’s capital today than those worn by senior campaign aides working to get President Obama four more years to complete his suffocation of the freest and most productive economy ever seen on God’s green earth.

Several giddy but unnamed Obama strategists are quoted this morning in Josh Marshall’s excellent Talking Points Memo (TPM) crowing about how Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have handed them what they believe will be the gift that keeps on giving throughout the fall campaign if Mitt Romney becomes their Republican opponent.

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