If you’ve read Newt Gingrich’s Rediscovering God in America–and you really should, to get a better understanding of why this thrice-married former Speaker is gaining ground among social conservatives–you know that he considers secularism one of the greatest threats facing the country. In fact, here’s the first sentence of the
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All fall in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidates have been auditioning for the role of Mitt Romney’s foil. With 43 days before the nation’s first primary, it’s finally Newt Gingrich’s turn on stage.
This June 2005 quote from the former House Speaker, spoken at a joint appearance with none other than Hillary Clinton (Newt was in a moderate-friend-of-Democrats phase at the time) proved less than prescient:
“We may be at the end of a 40-year cycle of bitterness,” Gingrich said. “I’ve spent enough of my life fighting. It would be nice
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Beware the eye of Newt! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a fearsome practitioner of attack politics–just ask the Democratic House Speaker he almost single-handedly toppled in the 1980s, the Democratic barons who lost their power when Newt’s Republicans took back the House in 1994, and Bill Clinton, who outdueled Newt in the …
JEFFERSON, IOWA — Newt Gingrich is having his I-told-you-so moment. Within mere days of announcing his presidential campaign in May, the former House Republican Speaker from Georgia suffered a spectacular political meltdown that …
I realize that it seems every candidate in the Republican 2012 field gets an Andy Warhol-esque fifteen minutes of glory. But color me skeptical about the notion of a Newt Gingrich surge. This National Review story, pegged to some slight fundraising and poll progress by the former House Speaker, leaves me thoroughly unconvinced that Newt …
Newt Gingrich represented Georgia in Congress for 20 years. He announced the beginnings of his 2012 presidential campaign in Atlanta. And in the run-up to Georgia’s little-noted Republican presidential straw poll this weekend, his campaign was boasting about the many state GOP officials backing his candidacy. “I think the campaign here …
Check out this Iowa radio reporter’s account of a Newt Gingrich appearance there on Monday, and see if a theme jumps out at you. I’ll help with some bolding for emphasis:
More bad news for Newt’s Gingrich’s foundering presidential campaign: His top two fundraisers have quit, bringing the count of deserters from his 2012 operation to a whopping 18, according to the AP. His fundraising is reportedly so anemic that the candidate has been reduced to giving up his corporate jets for commercial flights. …
After weeks of unforced errors and an unremarkable showing at Monday’s Republican primary debate, Newt Gingrich’s epically calamitous campaign for President started fresh Tuesday morning with one of the candidate’s signature stemwinders in New Hampshire:
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Newt Gingrich vowed to continue his presidential bid on Thursday afternoon after a slew of campaign staffers staged a mass exodus that raised questions about the future of the campaign.
“I am committed to …
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thanked the Washington press corps on Monday for grilling him on his shifting positions on Paul Ryan’s budget – he called Ryan last week to apologize for calling it “radical” – and for exposing a one-time loan from Tiffany’s for upwards of $500,000 in 2005-2006. “I can’t thank the …
“The key to running a campaign of ideas is cheerful persistence,” Newt Gingrich told TIME’s Alex Altman by e-mail early Thursday. And that’s the strategy Gingrich has pursued, pressing on against strong headwinds with multiple campaign events in Iowa, from where Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler has been tweeting a stream of updates and …
