I may not always agree with Newt Gingrich, but every so often, he nails it. And I found myself thinking “right on” as I read his take on efforts by the Republican National Committee to grab control over the presidential nominating process in 2016.

“There’s a wing of the Republican Party which would like life to be orderly and dominated by the rich,” Gingrich told Politico in a story on the 2016 nominating contest. “And so they would like to take all of the things that make politics exciting and responding to the popular will and they would like to hide from it. The fact is, if you can’t nominate somebody who can win debates and come out of the contest stronger, they wouldn’t have a chance to beat Hillary in the general.”