Category Archives: Newt Gingrich

Sensing weakness, Karl Rove’s critics pounce

By MAGGIE HABERMAN      POLITICO For the first time in a dozen years, Karl Rove’s critics smell blood. After his electoral wipeout in November — and motivated by years of resentment that’s spilling over — Rove’s credibility within his own party is at an all-time low. His ability to sell donors on his new endeavor, the [...]

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Newt Gingrich: Fiscal cliff is an ‘artificial invention’

  By KATIE GLUECK   Newt Gingrich is slamming the looming fiscal cliff as “an artificial invention of Washington.” “I think we ought to recognize this entire fiscal cliff is an artificial invention of Washington, created by people in the Congress and the presidency,” the former House speaker said Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “On [...]

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Newt Gingrich: 300 electoral votes for Mitt Romney

  By KATIE GLUECK Newt Gingrich is predicting that this election will be a near-landslide victory for Mitt Romney. “I believe the minimum result will be 53-47 Romney, over 300 electoral votes, and the Republicans will pick up the Senate,” the former House speaker said Thursday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta [...]

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JibJab: The 2012 Presidential GOP Candidates Do the “Yes We Can-Can!”

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Colorado presidential debate: 5 things to watch

Tonight’s debate kicks off a series of three presidential debates. | AP Photo By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH After weeks of anticipatory news coverage, breathless spin and counter-spin from both sides aiming to lower expectations for their own guy, and occasional off-cue moments from surrogates, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will take the [...]

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Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum campaigns deep in debt

Gingrich’s campaign is more than $4.7M in debt with less than $736,000 cash on hand. | Reuters By DAVE LEVINTHAL While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney raise millions of dollars daily, presidential also-rans Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich remain saddled with debt.   Gingrich’s situation is most dire: his campaign is than $4.7 million in [...]

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Gingrich saves barbs for Obama, not Romney

Here’s a brief excerpt from an article in the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune that I thought our readers would enjoy….. ~~John Cronin~~   by Associated Press Gingrich said the former Massachusetts governor’s critics ask if Romney is conservative. “I stare at them for a second and I say, ‘Compared to Barack Obama?’ I mean, let’s [...]

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“Mitt Romney Will Do Just Fine, Thank You”

By:  J.R. Dunn The  upcoming election will be one of the simplest of our lifetimes.  It is  defined by one axiom: Obama must be defeated. I’m  not one of that crew, sincere but overwrought, who see Barack Obama as some kind  of period to the American story, as a native Anti-Christ by way of Alinsky [...]

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Primary results 2012: Mitt Romney ‘s 5-state sweep

By ALEXANDER BURNS  Mitt Romney swept all five Republican primary elections Tuesday night, putting an end once and for all to any hopes for a comeback by his beleaguered GOP primary opponents. The last state to be called was New York, where voting ended at 9 p.m.; Romney was previously projected the winner in Connecticut, [...]

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Participatory Democracy: Missouri Caucuses, Bonhomme Township

I had the privilege of taking part in the first round of the delegate selection process during a three hour Caucus held in Bonhomme Township at the Kirkwood Community Center in St. Louis County, Missouri. Before the start of the meeting, I could not have told you much more than about 60 seconds worth of [...]

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