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Maddow: Newt’s best weapon against Romney is… Romney
According to Rachel Maddow, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are both under tremendous pressure from the “Republican establishment” not to attack Mitt Romney on his “vulture capitalist” business background at the investment group Bain Capital. If Gingrich and Perry “cave like spineless twerps,” she asks, and agree to those terms,…
Gingrich: ‘Occupy’ protesters ‘blocking’ my free speech
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday complained that Occupy Wall Street protesters were “blocking” his right to free speech. The former House Speaker told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he had canceled an event at his campaign headquarters, where protesters were waiting outside the front and back entrances.…
Psychic monkey devours Gingrich’s banana
Grandpa the psychic spider monkey is bananas for Newt Gingrich. The New York Daily News‘ Barry Paddock traveled to the Staten Island Zoo to get Grandpa’s prediction for Tuesday’s New Hampshire Republican primary. Grandpa was asked to choose from a series of bananas, each with the name of a GOP…
Todd Palin to endorse Newt Gingrich
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s campaign will be getting a boost from Alaska’s former “first dude.” ABC News reported on Monday that Todd Palin, husband of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will endorse the former House Speaker. Todd Palin told ABC News that he respects Gingrich due to the criticism…
Gingrich: Founding fathers would have ‘violent’ reaction to pot growers
Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the founders of the United States would have dealt violently with marijuana growers, despite the fact that they grew the plant for commercial purposes themselves. He said at an town hall event in New Hampshire that decriminalizing drugs like marijuana would increase the rate of…
Supporter tells Gingrich: Media ‘accurate’ to ‘kill the Republican Party’
A supporter told Newt Gingrich (R-GA) on Thursday that maybe Republicans should just skip the 2012 presidential election because the GOP candidates didn’t have the passion necessary to govern. “Do Republicans want to be president next term because right now I don’t feel that?” the man asked Gingrich during an…
Romney, Gingrich spar as Iowa contest looms
DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney taunted his main Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich on Wednesday after arriving in Iowa ahead of the crucial first vote in the 2012 White House race. Latest polling indicates Gingrich’s popularity slipping in the run up to the January 3 Iowa caucuses after a…
Gingrich asks supporters for help against ‘barrage’ of attack ads
In his most recent statement via email to supporters, Newt Gingrich has sought their help against attack ads that have eroded his poll numbers and cost him his headway in the Republican race for the presidential nomination. The Hill’s “Ballot Box” blog reports that Gingrich sent out an email blast…
Gingrich responds to Romney attack: ‘Say it to my face’
Newt Gingrich appeared today on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to discuss his campaign’s mishandling of the Virginia primary as well as to discuss disparaging remarks that Mitt Romney made about Gingrich earlier today. Romney was at a campaign stop when he was questioned about the Gingrich campaign’s…
The complete timeline of the Gingrich divorces shows he’s not been honest with voters
Though former Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) has been floating the theory that, contrary to previous news reports that he served her with divorce papers as she was recovering from ovarian cancer surgery, his first wife Jackie Battley Gingrich initiated their divorce, CNN recently recovered the files from that divorce —…
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