Newt pledges moon base by second term. Pelosi On A Gingrich Presidency: "That Will Never Happen" Posted on January 24, 2012 John King, CNN: "You make your case there passionately for President Obama. But also understand that this is a tough reelection climate for any president, Democrat or Republican in this economy. Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when you think of the possibility, which is more real today than it was a week or a month ago, that he would be the Republican nominee and that you could come back here next January or next February with a President Gingrich? " Rep. King: "Why? " Pelosi: "He's not going to be President of the United States. King: "Why are you so sure? " Pelosi: "There is something I know. Livingston: ‘Newt is Volatile’ - Sarah Huisenga.
From National Journal: Romney Needs a Better Brand Obama v. Romney on Energy and the Environment Ron Paul: Romney No 'Panacea' for Obama Ills With friends like these, Newt Gingrich should probably follow President Harry Truman's advice and get a dog. Former Rep. “Newt is volatile, to say the least,” he said -- not the optimal endorsement for a presidential candidate who has been assailed by his Republican rivals as a chaotic and disorganized leader. Gingrich canceled an event on Friday morning and avoided talking with reporters after his second wife, Marianne Gingrich, said in an interview with ABC News that he had confessed to a six-year affair with a congressional aide and then asked her to engage in an “open marriage” so that he could keep his mistress.
The candidate visited a children’s hospital, but he also declined to answer questions from journalists. Separated at birth? Uncanny resemblance between a young Newt Gingrich and The Office's Dwight Schrute. By Daniel Bates Updated: 17:18 GMT, 20 January 2012 On the face of it they are nothing alike One is a social misfit who who is despised by his colleagues and mocked by the nation. The other is a former House speaker who is running for president. But when you look at pictures of a young Newt Gingrich and Dwight Schrute from the U.S. version of The Office, the differences just fade away. Lookalike: Newt Gingrich pictured left in 1970 at his first teaching job at the University of West Georgia has been compared to the character Dwight Schrute, right, from The Office Separated at birth?
The uncanny resemblance of between a younger Gingrich, pictured left in an undated photo, and the awkward character played by Rainn Wilson, right, has been picked up by a number of comedy shows Comedy shows and blogs have compared pictures of the former House Speaker from the 1970s with the awkward character in the hit TV show. Since then dozens of blogs and websites have joined in the Newt/Schrute debate. Newt Gingrich. Gingrich spokesman defends Wikipedia edits. (CNN) – As recently as last week, Newt Gingrich's communications director has been criticized by editors on Wikipedia for dozens of edits he has made and requested in defense of his candidate. While some of the changes were minor, Joe DeSantis has removed or asked to remove factual references to Gingrich's three marriages as well as mentions of ethics charges brought against him while he served as speaker of the House.
These efforts continued as recently as Monday.Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker Wikipedia records show DeSantis has made over 60 adjustments to entries in the online, publicly-edited encyclopedia to the biographical entry on Gingrich, the similar page on his wife, Callista, and a separate page on one of their books, Rediscovering Good in America. Last Tuesday, DeSantis drew the ire of an editor on the site. DeSantis defended his changes in a statement: "I stopped making direct edits in May 2011 because I was alerted to the COI rules," he said. Also see: Gingrich: Pelosi comments 'hysterical' Newt Gingrich: Our Bill Clinton by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. on Creators. WASHINGTON — Spring is in the air, and one senses that it is again time for the college students of the land to engage in protest.
It all began in the late 1960s, and one of the legacies of that period is that the campuses are evacuated as soon as possible. By May, the student body will be vamoosing. Administrators have discovered that that soft, gentle, spring-like weather breeds discontent among the students, drunken carousal, violence and criminality. It is best to return the inmates to their parents.
An early sign of this seasonal discontent came a week ago at Dartmouth where a troop of students took over the president's office and delivered up a 72-point manifesto, which obviously took a lot of work. As Jillian Mayer, a senior, said, "None of those points are just thrown in there because we thought they should be there. The Dartmouth students — actually a small minority of Dartmouth students with gigantic egos — are demonstrating for quotas in racial admissions. R. Gingrich: I wouldn't accept debate versus Obama moderated by reporters. By NBC's Jamie Novogrod and msnbc.com's Michael O'Brien Newt Gingrich threatened Monday to skip any debate as the Republican nominee versus President Obama that's moderated by a member of the media. "As your nominee, I will not accept debates in the fall in which the reporters are the moderators," Gingrich said at a rally in Pensacola. "We don’t need to have a second Obama person at the debate.
" The threat is in keeping with the scorn with which the former House speaker has treated the press throughout the campaign, particularly at debates. Moreover, Gingrich has made his debating prowess a central selling point of his candidacy, promising fantastical showdowns with Obama in the general election. As a reminder, though, presidential debates are governed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which have organized the general election debates since 1998. America hates Newt Gingrich. Gingrich: I would lose to Obama in a personality contest. (CNN) – While Newt Gingrich insisted on Friday he would be the best candidate to compete with President Barack Obama in November, he added there was one match in which he would lose against the president. “He’s likeable. I would never beat Obama in a personality contest,” Gingrich said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” “But the presidency is not about likeability.
The presidency is about are you capable of doing the job?” Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @politicalticker In the interview, Gingrich also argued the recent controversy over his marriage history helps him connect with voters, claiming the timing of a new ABC News interview with his ex-wife has fueled supporters to rally around the candidate. “I don't believe anybody who's going to vote tomorrow didn't already know I've been divorced and married,” Gingrich said. He said South Carolina voters on Friday thanked him for attacking the media, with some supporters telling him he was “in their prayers.” “Look at who I am now. Also see: Gingrich Predicts ‘Wild and Woolly’ Campaign. Exclusive: Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.
In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich. CLICK HERE to see a preview of ABC News' exclusive broadcast interview with Marianne Gingrich and then catch the full interview tonight on ABC News' Nightline at 11:35 p.m. In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. "And I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do,'" Marianne Gingrich told ABC News.
PHOTOS of Newt's Three Wives The former Mrs. The Real Reasons Conservatives Oppose Gingrich. In an intense primary battle, a lot of silly things are said. (Many of them, it turns out, are said by Sarah Palin, who seems intent on confirming every negative thing her critics have said about her.) Among them is the charge, repeated like rounds fired from a machine gun, that opposition to Newt Gingrich is based on those in the “establishment” who fear the scale of change he would bring to Washington. If you’re for Gingrich, so goes this story line, you’re for “genuine” and “fundamental” change.
If you oppose Gingrich, on the other hand, you’re for “managing the decay” of America. Except for this. The single most important idea, when it comes to fundamentally changing Washington, is the budget plan put forward by Representative Paul Ryan last April. So much for Mr. The reality is that conservative/”establishment” opposition to Gingrich generally falls into three categories. Some of these criticisms may be appropriate and some of them may be overstated or miss the mark. Gingrich’s Deep Ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Newt Gingrich's big, slobbering mutual love affair with the elite media.
Newt Gingrich hates the media, right? He unloaded on John King at the Charleston debate for raising this issue of his ex-wife's allegations, blasting the "destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media". In Myrtle Beach, he slapped Juan Williams down for asking a race-based question. And the media despises Newt, right? He's so sarcastic and condescending towards us, brands us as elite liberals and uses us to whip up the Republican base. Actually, wrong and wrong. Gingrich loves the press. In some respects we are, as John McCain famously noted, his "base". Newt Gingrich in the Myrtle Beach spin room Romney would have rather been anywhere else in the world than that in the middle of that heaving, sweaty scrum.
And it's mutual. Bob Dole once quipped that the most dangerous place to be in Washington was between a camera and Senator Chuck Schumer. In debates, Gingrich has repeatedly cited the New York Times and has referred to a conversation he had had with Joe Klein. Feisty Gingrich stakes campaign on electability. SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Newt Gingrich has staked his presidential bid on the idea that he's best positioned to defeat President Barack Obama. Yet even some supporters seem to be struggling to buy that claim, an indication that efforts by chief rival Mitt Romney to undercut him may be working.
"Beating Obama is more important than everything else," Patrick Roehl, a 51-year-old computer software engineer, said at a Gingrich rally inside a Sarasota airport hangar this past week. "Can Newt win? I'm not sure. He's got a lot of high negatives. John Grainger, a 44-year-old assistant golf pro, doesn't like Romney. "I want to be a Newt supporter," he said. Interviews with more than a dozen Republican voters at Gingrich's overflowing rallies ahead of Tuesday's primary suggest that many Florida voters love his brash style as they look for someone to take it to Obama. "Newt Gingrich's tough talk sounds good, but Newt has tons of baggage.
Gingrich is not letting such criticism go unanswered. Gingrich and Reagan - Elliott Abrams. In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. “I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington,” “we helped defeat the Soviet empire,” and “I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress” are typical claims by the former speaker of the House. The claims are misleading at best. As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years — and I was an assistant secretary of state — Mr. Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat Communism. Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan’s policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong.
The fights over Reagan’s efforts to stop Soviet expansionism in the Third World were exceptionally bitter. But the most bitter battleground was often in Congress. But not Newt Gingrich. What Reagan Thought of Newt. Chuck Baldwin -- Newt Gingrich? Really? By Chuck Baldwin January 26, 2012 NewsWithViews.com Last weekend, Republican voters in South Carolina picked the candidate they want to be the GOP standard bearer for the November elections: Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich? Really? What did I miss? Or better, what did Republican voters in South Carolina miss? What is not lost to virtually everyone who understands national politics is the fact that there is perhaps no State in the union where evangelical Christians have more influence within the State Republican Party than in South Carolina.
For example, Greenville, South Carolina, is home to what could be regarded as the flagship university of evangelicalism, Bob Jones University. In all candor, understanding the power and influence of evangelical Christianity in South Carolina Republican politics, Newt Gingrich’s victory in that State last week is extremely difficult for this writer to digest. Newt Gingrich? Have Christians (and other conservatives) had complete and total memory failure? Exclusive: GOP’s biggest celebrity endorses … Text smaller Text bigger Chuck Norris, identified this election as the endorsement most sought after by Republicans, says he’s throwing his considerable influence behind the campaign for president in 2012 of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich because “we need a veteran of political war who has already fought Goliath.”
In a new column published on WND, Norris explains he agrees with Gingrich’s statement that there is no enemy this year but Barack Obama. Gingrich had explained, “We have no opponents except Barack Obama. I think that’s very important.” “I’m tired of watching our country being torn to shreds by those who think the answer is more government debt and control. I’m tired of being in bondage to a tax system that robs U.S. citizens like the King of England did before the Revolution,” Norris writes.”I’m tired of watching our sovereignty being sold by foreign loans and loose borders. Infighting and minutiae have no place in the argument, he said. “No man or candidate is perfect. US Election 2012: Newt Gingrich calls on Callista to burnish his tarnished image. Sources: Trump to endorse Newt. Word started leaking out in Las Vegas earlier that Donald Trump's "major announcement" is to back Newt Gingrich, and sources supporting the former House Speaker confirmed to POLITICO that was the case.
The New York Times and the Associated Press, among others, also reported the news on their own confirmation. The Times, in fact, went first. But by this morning, other sources said that Trump's endorsement may actually go to Mitt Romney, who Trump has been lobbied heavily to endorse for the last few weeks. Matt Drudge, who has ties to top Romney officials, was the first to report it.
The announcement is expected to come at an 12:30 p.m. press conference tomorrow that The Donald is holding. The move is a bit unexpected since Trump had talked even within the past few days about how he may be compelled to run a third-party campaign of his own if he didn't see a Republican candidate who he thought could beat President Barack Obama.
Trump was courted repeatedly by several of the GOP hopefuls. Someone needs to tell Newt that the nomination has cancer, so he'll leave it. : politics. Newt Gingrich | Reagan White House | Pat Buchanan. Gingrich May Be Trying to Win One From the Gipper: Albert Hunt. Reagan sources say Gingrich "torch" quote taken out of context. Dole assails Gingrich in plea to conservatives. President John Tyler’s grandson says Newt Gingrich is a 'jerk' - Mackenzie Weinger. Opinion: The Newt I know - Joe Scarborough. Gingrich archives show his public praise, private criticism of Reagan.