Newt's Having Fun in Nevada While It Lasts
Newt Gingrich is polling very far behind Mitt Romney in Nevada, whose caucuses are Saturday, but that doesn't mean he can't enjoy all the drunken buffoonery the Silver State has to offer.
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Newt Gingrich will "debate" Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, his second big appearance on an NBC political show in less than a week.
Newt Gingrich is polling very far behind Mitt Romney in Nevada, whose caucuses are Saturday, but that doesn't mean he can't enjoy all the drunken buffoonery the Silver State has to offer.
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Now that we've had a couple hours to mourn the fact that the most boring Republican candidate will likely be the presidential nominee, it's time to hold all those pundits who tricked us into thinking there'd be someone more fun to write about accountable for their mistakes.
The Republican Party fears it might have accidentally destroyed its village in order to save it.
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Newt Gingrich's latest robo-call attacking Mitt Romney sets a new level for harshness: The GOP front-runner once voted to deprive Holocaust survivors of the kosher food they ate in Massachusetts nursing homes when he was governor.
Even if he loses the Florida primary Tuesday, Gingrich predicts the nomination contest will go one for another "six or eight months… unless Romney drops out earlier."
Mitt Romney doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd like trash talk, but he's indulging in quite a bit of it in Florida.
Of all the attacks and counterattacks made during the Republican presidential primary, the hardest one to prove is which candidate's love of Ronald Reagan is most pure and true?
If Newt Gingrich won South Carolina because of one of his most indefensible ideas -- ending child labor laws so that poor kids can become janitors in their own schools -- it's interesting that he's being killed in Florida over one of his most defensible ones: space exploration.
With polls showing Mitt Romney on track for a convincing victory in Tuesday’s Republican primary in this state, the one silver lining for Newt Gingrich may be the acceleration of a sorting-out process that is driving more prominent conservatives toward the former House speaker as a parade of establishment GOP leaders rally around Romney.
It cost a lot of money for Mitt Romney to regain his lead in Florida polls from Newt Gingrich.
Rick Perry is trying to get back some of the swagger he lost by failing so badly in the Republican presidential primary by tweeting pictures of himself with weapons.
One of the most entertaining (and horrifying) things about this long Republican primary is watching the candidates attack each other using tactics that they'd previously mostly reserved for Democrats.
Among the highlights: Romney and Gingrich fought over space exploration, and who you think won that exchange depends on whether you're on Team Stingy Old Man or Team 9-Year-Old Boy.
Dozens—though it feels like thousands—of political reporters are gleefully tweeting about their ridiculous luck that the Republican presidential primary is not only still going on, but going on in Florida.
It's amusing that Mitt Romney's campaign would tout a warning from Bob Dole that Newt Gingrich's nomination would lead to "an Obama landslide," because their Romney's looking a lot like Dole in his failed 2012 bid.
The crowds at Newt Gingrich's rallies are big, loud, and happy, while Mitt Romney's events are more subdued. Yet polls seem to show the opposite -- that Romney's gaining while Gingrich has peaked. What gives? Our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newt Gingrich pulled a Spanish-language radio ad that called Mitt Romney "anti-immigrant" on Wednesday, but what's surprising is not that the ad aired, but that he gave Gingrich so much material to work with.
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Sure, Mitt Romney has the most endorsements of Republican elected officials, but he's in a heated competition with Newt Gingrich for the endorsements that really matter: Famous people.
Mitt Romney says he paid exactly what federal tax laws require, but it's hard not to notice he also checks all the boxes of a cartoon version of a Wall Street villain: Swiss bank accounts, funds in the Cayman Islands, and, The New York Times reports, original IPO shares in Goldman Sachs.
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Mitt Romney finally did what conservatives were begging him to do -- he aggressively attacked the surging Gingrich in Monday's debate. But it wasn't enough to get rid of a sense of dread in the GOP: now Newt Gingrich may be the nominee.
Mitt Romney got under Newt Gingrich's skin over his lucrative "historian" work, but Romney also coined an odd word -- "self-deportation" -- and bragged for the second time about forcing Ted Kennedy to take out a mortgage.
With recent national polls showing Newt Gingrich catching up with the Republican frontrunner, Mitt Romney is opening a new round of attacks which use what's known about Newt's skeletons -- mostly from his post-Congress career as a pseudo-lobbyist -- to make people afraid of what else is out there.
You know what Mitt Romney hates more than socialism? Being interrupted.
Mitt Romney sells himself as an expert in crisis management -- he turned around the 2002 Olympics -- and now he has to prove it by managing the crisis that is Newt Gingrich.
Romney had resisted releasing them, handing a populist cudgel to Newt Gingrich, who portrayed him as a job-eliminating plutocrat to great effect in the South Carolina primary. Romney's now had second thoughts.
The Republican presidential hopeful and bête noire of gay rights activists was glitter-bombed after he addressed supporters following the South Carolina primary.
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Oh, sure, you might think the obvious presidential candidate for Chuck Norris to endorse would be Rick Perry, what with his guns and boots and Texasyness, not to mention his own Chuck Norris Facts-inspired twitterer, RickPerryFacts. But you would be wrong.
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On the very day that the hottest Republican presidential candidate of all time drops out of the race, the candidate... with the largest cranium of all time is revealed to have asked his wife for an open marriage.
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