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On Wednesday, May 2, in Washington, Newt Gingrich will bury a campaign that has been dead so long it’s begun to smell. It’s tempting to view the narrative arc of Gingrich’s past 90 days as a tragedy: the wily antihero who rose from the ashes (twice!), only to fall victim to his own hubris. “Newt, [...]
A Swampland competition to plot a profitable post-campaign future for the former Speaker.
The new Newt Gingrich slipped into Washington with little fanfare. As his campaign downgrades from long shot to longer shot, the happy-go-lucky Speaker who slogged cheerfully through a series of defeats is finally letting his frustration show. Gingrich’s speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday evening sounded like a valedictory for a vanishing campaign. The boasts [...]
Newt Gingrich isn’t accusing Barack Obama of being a Muslim, mind you. He’s only saying that Obama acts like a Muslim. Big difference. “It should bother the President. Why does the President behave the way that people would think that [he is a Muslim]?” Gingrich said. ”You have to ask why would they believe that? [...]
National Review‘s Rich Lowry, writing in the new issue of TIME, makes the case that it has: Santorum has outclassed Gingrich. The former Pennsylvania Senator is famously undisciplined, but compared with Gingrich, he’s a robot. He can be prickly, but compared with Gingrich, he’s Little Miss Sunshine. He has won nine contests, more than four [...]
Rick Santorum found himself in unfamiliar territory on Wednesday night: at the center of attention in a Republican primary debate. The CNN forum in Arizona was the first in almost a month, and the only debate held since upsets in Minnesota and Colorado put Santorum in the top-tier of contention with Mitt Romney. And while [...]
According to CNN, Newt Gingrich’s candidacy is getting some CPR in the form of another $10 million donation to his super PAC from the billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, whose family has already pumped $10 million into the group. The money won’t arrive a moment too early for Newt. As Bloomberg noted Friday morning, Gingrich [...]
I’m wondering if Tuesday night’s results in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri really were so atrocious for Mitt Romney. As Alex Altman noted last night, there’s one obvious upside: Rick Santorum’s big night complicates the anti-Mitt movement, ensuring that conservative opposition to Romney remains divided. Tuesday night’s results might have made Romney look weak and unloved, [...]
Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses by a wide margin on Saturday night, quickening the front runner’s pace toward the Republican presidential nomination. The victory, his second blowout in a week, set the tone for the quiet month ahead in which only two more major contests are scheduled: primaries in Arizona and Michigan on the [...]
Whether or not Newt Gingrich can carry on a real campaign against Mitt Romney for several more weeks or even months depends in large measure on his political guardian angel, the Las Vegas casino billionaire and fierce Israel hawk Sheldon Adelson. Adelson’s camp won’t say whether the mogul will donate any money beyond the $10 [...]
