In Iowa yesterday, a reporter asked former House Speaker Gingrich if he felt he was being swift-boated. |
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Newt Gingrich, who defined the Republican Party in the '90s, was a non-person at this convention. |
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Gingrich has since walked back those comments, insisting he is focused on the economic crisis. |
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Last month, she even appeared on the same platform as former House speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss healthcare reform. |
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He ambled into the main auditorium, telling me he was exhausted, while Newt Gingrich wrapped up a snooze of a speech. |
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Oh, sure, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich called for slashing foreign aid, the foreign-policy equivalent of Amtrak. |
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Gone was Gingrich the attack dog, replaced instead by Gingrich the enthusiastic, vigorously nodding wing man. |
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In truth, Gingrich was a backbencher during the Reagan years, lobbing bombshells at the White House in addition to Democrats. |
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If Fox News is any barometer, Gingrich has not been hammered on the channel where months ago he was a commentator. |
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Rick Santorum, the winner in Iowa, who had been battling Gingrich for that distinction, is the unambiguous loser. |
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While Gingrich remains a caustic conservative, he seems to be edging toward a big-tent philosophy. |
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I asked Gingrich if he thought he had a genetic predisposition to bipolar disorder. |
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This Gingrich boomlet is the same thing as the Michele Bachmann boomlet and the Rick Perry boomlet. |
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It was asked, left to right, across the stage, bypassing Gingrich, tightening the noose. |
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He will almost certainly continue to carpet-bomb Gingrich over the airwaves. |
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Gingrich also scored points with the media elite that he loves to castigate. |
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Gingrich had an off night as he chafed under criticism, while Romney threw no punches. |
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Newt Plays Clumsy Defense by Howard Kurtz Gingrich had an off night as he chafed under criticism, while Romney threw no punches. |
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The GOP lives in a decrepit Hollywood mansion where Gingrich is its Norma Desmond, always ready for his closeup. |
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At a certain point, political experts started to wonder whether it was overkill, as Gingrich started dropping in the polls. |
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Like Gingrich, he is a convert and a thrice-married sinner engaged continually in confession and absolution. |
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Gingrich is a strong debater, agile enough even to turn a question about past marital infidelity into an applause line. |
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Newt Gingrich has been scoring points ridiculing the idea of algae as a fuel of the future. |
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Newt Gingrich faults big government for the lamentable absence of manned stations on the moon. |
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If all this were only hypocrisy, Gingrich might legitimately expect voters to shrug off his lapses of decency and humanity. |
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Voters who back Gingrich because they think he is a strong conservative might migrate to Santorum. |
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Gingrich has tried to depict Romney a milquetoast moderate in the line of former state governor Charlie Crist. |
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John Catsimatidis, a major Republican donor and Romney supporter from New York, says Gingrich is unelectable. |
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Meanwhile, South Carolina Republicans surely know deep down that Gingrich is unelectable, and they find Romney unpalatable. |
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The presidential candidate got misty-eyed while talking about his late mother, Kit Gingrich, and their holiday traditions. |
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When Ron Paul says that the act itself is unpatriotic, Gingrich responds with the example of Timothy McVeigh. |
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He tried to pass healthcare reform but newt Gingrich and the GOP-controlled House and Senate shot it down. |
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This was done masterfully by newt Gingrich in the debate before the South Carolina primary. |
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My CNN colleague newt Gingrich was Republican Speaker of the House when the Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law. |
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On Friday, I met a voter named Laura Snipes at a Gingrich event in Orangeburg. |
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Newt Gingrich may talk a tough game, but in December the former speaker of the House got weepy when asked about his mother. |
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The real contest was for second place, pitting Ron Paul against Newt Gingrich. |
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Gingrich seemed slightly flustered, pivoting back to the poor grandmothers. |
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Instead, Gingrich played the statesman, burying the hatchet and proffering big ideas to tackle big problems. |
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Gingrich seemed to just stop fighting, beaten not only on points, but psychically. |
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What arrow does Gingrich have in his quiver besides the great debate one-liner that expresses right-wing grievance? |
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Gingrich and his family declined, through spokesperson R.C. Hammond, to comment for this Daily Beast article. |
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February updates were due Tuesday night, and Gingrich campaign officials were already preparing the media for the sea of red ink. |
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Pauline Moreau, a 77-year-old retiree in the Orlando-area, concurred with the affinity for Gingrich. |
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Newt Gingrich As the President speaks, we will be experiencing one of the coldest winters in recent history. |
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Even Gingrich, after complimenting Cain's attempt to simplify a complex idea, took a jab at the pizza guy. |
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Of course, the incentive for the Gingrich team would be not to delete the phony accounts. |
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Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze. |
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But was this demagoguery on the part of Gingrich, a seasoned politician, in an attempt to seem more moderate than he actually is? |
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Gingrich regained his footing quickly, demagoguing the federal courts in a way that would have made George Corley Wallace proud. |
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Newt Gingrich had an aggressive agenda, as we remember all too well, and even Denny Hastert filled most of the slots. |
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They see him as having eclipsed Newt Gingrich, whose fortunes have sagged since his brief, shining moment in South Carolina. |
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Yet in an atmosphere in which the Romney and Perry campaigns are savaging each other, Gingrich rarely attacks his GOP rivals. |
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But unlike Gingrich, who was loaded for bear, Romney was still defensive, disingenuous, and dodgy. |
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Ron Paul is self-limiting, Newt Gingrich is self-aggrandizing, and Rick Santorum is self-righteous. |
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While exasperating his own side, Gingrich was fascinated by the 42nd president. |
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A weekend face-off in Texas between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich puts a spotlight on allegations of harassment and infidelity. |
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Why, then, has the flip-flopper label attached itself so much more firmly to Romney than to the equally flexible Gingrich? |
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Such familiarity insulates Gingrich from the kind of flip-flopping charges that have proved so corrosive for Romney. |
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If there was a frisson of drama, it came when Gingrich spoke after Romney was projected to win Delaware. |
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In contrast, the anti-Romney commercials being aired by the Gingrich campaign are far more complicated, gimmicky, and petty. |
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Gingrich emerged that night looking bigger than King, bigger than everyone on stage, and he won the primary. |
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But in August, an anonymous former Gingrich staffer told Gawker that the vast majority of those followers were fake. |
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In fact, earlier that year, Gingrich became the first major presidential hopeful to announce his candidacy via Twitter. |
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Gingrich is not exactly wearing rainbow spandex, but his position definitely shifted. |
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The resulting backlash was so great that Gingrich quickly apologized and took back his statement. |
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The Gingrich shutdown haunts the GOP leadership, not the newer, more radical lawmakers in the caucus. |
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Newt Gingrich had similar personnel problems, and his grandiosity makes her look humble. |
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Most of their supporters might gravitate to Gingrich, giving him a fighting chance in Florida and beyond. |
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Newt Gingrich was on the griddle for much of the evening, easily defending his ideas and deflecting criticism. |
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Imagine, by contrast, a Gingrich who spent the 1990s fulfilling that vow made to the young and gullible Tomasky. |
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In the resurrection of Newt Gingrich, endurance and shamelessness played equally important roles. |
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Even if Gingrich is a short-timer in the 2012 race, Romney should not despair. |
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Are the media about to bury Newt Gingrich for the third time, shoveling extra dirt on his campaign casket to just to make sure? |
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It was a bit of payback by Ben Jones, who played Cooter in The Dukes of Hazzard and lost a House race to Gingrich. |
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The Sioux City faceoff made clear that Gingrich is the man to beat in Iowa. |
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But if Gingrich heads to the showers, a Romney-Santorum slugfest could go all the way to Tampa. |
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Gingrich strapped on his helmet, slugged down some sake, jumped in his Zero, and dive-bombed into the SS Romney. |
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For his part, Newt Gingrich has clearly been honing his persona as condescending, arch, snide Big Thinker. |
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Yet I can never escape the feeling that Gingrich is spoofing his audiences when he engages in these culture war tirades. |
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During the primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum popped off with sour, ill-informed comments on race-related issues. |
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Attack ads boosting Dr. Paul Now Gingrich is above it all Too statesmanlike to vent his spleen? |
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Gingrich is a smart fellow steeped in the issues, but also has a knack for straying off message. |
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The most plausible explanation is that Gingrich inhabits a cultural and intellectual bubble. |
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Ideologically and stylistically, Gingrich is far closer to her idea of an aggressively conservative nominee. |
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Gingrich should be smart enough to know that subpoenaing judges is neither legal nor workable. |
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Newt Gingrich interrupts an interview to turn the conversation into a discussion of his favorite zoos. |
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And they know Newt Gingrich is nothing more than a jilted lover at this point, so they will discount his broadsides. |
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Bob Gingrich was furious and demanded that she be medicated again. |
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Did an angry Newt Gingrich triumph over a slumping Mitt Romney? |
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Gingrich miffed the media with her affection for Tiffany jewelry. |
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He says Gingrich and perle worked together at AEI on a project. |
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Where Romney is careful and cautious, Gingrich is joyfully brazen. |
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Neither Santorum nor Gingrich has visited the Pine Tree State. |
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Gingrich has coauthored four novels about the North-South clash. |
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In the most memorable exchange, Gingrich turned an ex-wife's embarrassing allegation to his political advantage. |
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All these knuckleheads who want to run for president, like Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich. |
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Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman did their damnedest to find out Monday. |
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The likeliest person to defeat the voluble Georgian is Gingrich himself. |
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won ovations calling for a federal ban on sharia law. |
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House minority whip... Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics. |
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What about his Restore Our Future, which is savaging Gingrich in Iowa? |
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It said Gingrich, who lives in Virginia, would pursue an aggressive write-in campaign in the state. |
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It now appears that Gingrich and his dittoheads will fall short of the votes they need to get an amendment through Congress. |
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Republicans like Gingrich and Senator Phil Gramm chortle when Congress looks bad. |
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Gingrich claims that he didn't register because he was not paid to lobby and was merely voicing his opinion as a citizen while CHT asserts it has never done any lobbying. |
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We already have a primitive, easily cheatable form of identification,'' said Gingrich, who advocated using tamper-proof visas, thumbprints or retinal scans for all foreigners. |
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Other notable attendees included Newt Gingrich and Nicole Kidman. |
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When the overfed, declawed, Las Vegas casino money recipient Newt Gingrich had some fun over Mitt Romney's ability to speak French, Europeans took notice. |
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