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WATCH LIVE: Gingrich speaks after reports that campaign will end

Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters in North Carolina after reports that he will end his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast April 25, 2012.  …

Newt Gingrich to suspend campaign Tuesday

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination next week, according to multiple reports. Senior Gingrich aides told Fox News on Wednesday that the candidate would either suspend or end his campaign on Tuesday and “more than likely” endorse presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.…

Politicians who won’t even talk about legalizing marijuana are enormous hypocrites

The last three presidents admit they smoked it. Presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gringrich (R-GA) called using it, “a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.” Former VP nominee and governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) says she did her share of it. There’s undoubtedly more…

Newt Gingrich is bouncing checks and being a dick about it.

Newt Gingrich is broke, y’all.  But you know what he’s not?  A dumb black president that needs to use teleprompters to give speeches because he can’t read, MIRITE?! Struggling Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday joked that he couldn’t even buy a teleprompter after his campaign recently bounced a…

Newt Gingrich to Rick Santorum supporters: Vote for me

Former House speaker, whose campaign has collapsed, urges Santorum’s conservative followers to lend their support Newt Gingrich has cheekily called on Rick Santorum’s supporters to throw their weight behind him to prevent Mitt Romney becoming the Republican presidential nominee. Gingrich repeatedly split the rightwing vote with Santorum, allowing Romney to…

It’s all Gingrich’s fault

Well, here we are in a never-ending cycle of polarization between Left and Right, stronger than anything experienced in the public arena before, even in the Sixties. Then too, the book of “dirty tricks” Republican campaign praxis, engineered by self-described “Silent Majority” champion Richard M. Nixon, made hay by exploiting…

The monster too big to see

Tatoos and body modification. Newt Gingrich’s candidacy. The rise of the “Tea Party.” The decline of democracy and its ideal of civic participation. And the enduring popularity of… Zombie movies. Could they be connected? Maybe they could– if, behind all headlines and driving all news stories, we sense one cryptic,…

Gingrich think tank files for bankruptcy

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s health-care think tank on Wednesday filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with up to $10 million in debt and as little as $50,000 in assets. The Atlanta Business Chronicle first reported on Thursday that The Gingrich Group LLC, doing business as the Center for Health Transformation,…

Gingrich admits Romney will ‘probably’ win but refuses to concede

Empty of funds, Gingrich adds that Mitt Romney is ‘clearly the frontrunner’ but remains defiant against calls for him to quit Newt Gingrich has come the closest yet to acknowledging what just about everyone else in the political world has already decided: that he has no chance of becoming the…

Former child janitor to Gingrich: Your jobs plan ‘offended’ me

A man who spent part of his childhood working as a janitor told Newt Gingrich on Wednesday that he was offended by the Republican presidential candidate’s plan to put kids to work. During an event at Georgetown University, Hector Cendejas called out the former House Speaker for his initiative to…