Romney-Ryan Should Be t...

Jeffrey Kuhner, Washington Times Mitt Romney will be the GOP presidential candidate. Former Sen. Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign, clearing the path for Mr. Romney’s inevitable victory at the convention. The ex-Massachusetts governor now faces a pivotal question: Who...

Newt Gingrich, FOX News...

Steve Kornacki, Salon Newt Gingrich thinks that the Fox News Channel destroyed his campaign for the Republican nomination. And he’s right. Well, kind of.According to Real Clear Politics’ Scott Conroy, Gingrich told a small group of Tea Party activists in Delaware on...

Has the RNC Been in the...

Kenneth Vogel, Politico The Republican National Committee was supposed to play the part of umpire in the GOP presidential primary, but some Republicans are grumbling that the committee wasn’t just calling balls and strikes.Critics, including supporters of Rick Santorum and Newt...

Will Romney Break Out i...

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics Shortly after Super Tuesday, I put together a model that projected Mitt Romney's share of the "non-Paul vote" (i.e., the Gingrich/Romney/Santorum vote) at the county level based on six variables: the percentage of Mormons, the percentage of...

Record Number See Romne...

Greg Holyk, ABC News Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall.Thirty-four...

The Sad End of the Ging...

Walter Shapiro, The New Republic Despite Newt Gingrich’s best efforts, it looks like the world is going to have to save itself. A humiliating third-place finish in Saturday’s Louisiana primary should have extinguished the last embers of Gingrich’s wildfire...

Left & Right Should...

Bill Maher, New York Times THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make...

Why Is Obama So Rattled...

Liz Peek, FOX News Newt Gingrich can’t win a primary for love or money, but he sure has gotten under President Obama’s skin. His attacks on the president’s energy policy, or lack thereof, appear to have unnerved the normally unflappable Mr....

Newt Gingrich Judges th...

            Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, toured the cherry blossoms on Sunday. We think he enjoyed himself. Maybe. [ more › ] Read the original post:  Newt Gingrich Judges the Cherry...

Breaking Up With Goldma...

Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Having been trying to figure out how many years the Republican primary would have to go on for Newt Gingrich to win, I was drawn by my colleague Alexandra Petri to a much more amusing subject.I’ve heard of people proposing on the jumbotron at...