The Other McCain

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‘Community Organizing’: Not a Joke

My buddy Matthew Vadum has a new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and it includes a very interesting passage (p. 27) where Newt Gingrich said Republicans were wrong to treat Obama’s “community organizing” career as a joke: The GOP’s mockery “trivialized Obama and Obama is […]

Gingrich: ‘These Are Supposed to Be Professionals Who We Were Paying’

It’s hard to be sympathetic to Newt Gingrich, but his remarks about campaign staffers and/or consultants who talked trash anonymously to reporters are worth hearing: (From Mediaite with a Twitter hat-tip to Matt Lewis.) Why would anyone hire a consultant or staffer who backstabbed his last boss?

VIDEO: ABC’s Jake Tapper Reports on Calista and the Newt 2012 Implosion

Watch this — it’s only about 2 minutes — and tell me if you see a way for Newt Gingrich to recover: Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills, California: “I will endure the challenges. I will carry the message of American renewal to every part of this great land,” Gingrich told a crowded ballroom at a Beverly […]

Fred Barnes Puts His Finger On It

And by “it,” I mean, Calista Gingrich: The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate’s wife since 2000. . . . Callista Gingrich gradually emerged as Gingrich’s most influential adviser this year, supplanting longtime […]

Team Newt Implodes: Top Aides Quit Gingrich 2012 Presidential Campaign

This news just broke in the past hour: Republican Newt Gingrich’s senior aides on his presidential campaign have resigned, according to the Associated Press. Press secretary Rick Tyler told the AP that he, campaign manager Rob Johnson said other strategists and aides in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina stepped down. UPDATE: Politico points to […]

2012 Candidates Not Named ‘Herman’

It’s kinda been all-Herman, all-the-time here lately, so let me update you on what’s going on with the non-Hermans: Democrats are running attack ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. Exactly why Democrats would be monkeying around in a GOP primary is an interesting question. (Hat-tip: Ann Althouse.) America braces for the onset of T-Paw Fever: Tim […]

Newt Gingrich to Democrats: ‘Hey, No Fair Quoting What I Said on National TV!’

“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.” — Newt Gingrich, in Fox News interview Tuesday UPDATE: Oh, this is classic: Newt’s spokesman Rick Tyler calls Gingrich’s critics “sheep,” whom he accuses of “not wanting to be dropped from the […]

Newtmania: Not Happening

Ed Morrissey writes up a blogger conference call that Newt Gingrich held today, as does Philip Klein at the Examiner: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, speaking on a Tuesday conference call held to respond to his controversial comments about Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, said that he didn’t go into his interview with NBC’s David Gregory […]

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