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For those who missed it: Last Friday Nancy Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that she had all sorts of investigative dirt available on current GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich. Specifically, “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” So… Newt Gingrich responded today by thanking Pelosi for the early Christmas present and noting “…if she’s suggesting she’s going to use material that she developed while she was on the ethics committee, that is a...

Effective leaders -- successful CEOs, presidents and legislators -- get tough things done and can effect epic defining change, because they have that "X-factor." An intangible quality and peculiar charisma -- something apart from a trenchant understanding of the issues and technical competence -- that motivates people to follow, accept discomforting choices, and overlook shortcomings in their background or character. John Kennedy and Barack Obama possessed it, and each was elected with few legislative accomplishments and virtually no executive experience. Similarly, it permitted Bill Clinton to overcome Jennifer Flowers. Mitt Romney has an admirable track record as a governor and...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi now says she is not sitting on a trove of opposition research on former House Speaker-turned-GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. In an interview conducted Friday and published Monday, Pelosi hinted that once the time is right she has some juicy stories to tell about her former colleague. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told Talking Points Memo. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him. Four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand...

few months ago, I got together with my friend Ali Akbar to hash out the idea of doing an anti-Mitt Romney website. A few weeks ago Ali and I, Yates Walker, Matt Mackowiak and others came out with Not Mitt Romney. At the time, I hadn’t settled on a favorite candidate and I was asked on multiple radio shows something akin to, “Well okay, if it’s ‘Not Mitt Romney,’ then who is it?” At the time, Herman Cain was on top and although I like him and Michele Bachmann a lot, I said that I thought Newt Gingrich and Rick...

Many Republicans in Washington are gnawing their fingernails over the thought of Newt Gingrich emerging as the party’s 2012 nominee, but rank-and-file conservatives don’t share their angst. A new Gallup poll, the first of its kind in the 2012 cycle, found that six in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saw the former House speaker as an acceptable nominee. Just over half said Mitt Romney would be an acceptable nominee. The two current front-runners were the only GOP contenders deemed acceptable by more than half of Republicans polled. Mr. Gingrich’s support was much higher among the more-fervent wings of the party,...

Republicans may have mixed feelings about the rise of Newt Gingrich in the presidential primary race, but they’re not alone. In two articles published today, readers either learn that Gingrich’s sudden move to the top of the polls has Democrats worried (Washington Post) or delighted (TPM-DC). Let’s start with the Post, which focuses on the worries of Democratic strategists who see real trouble in a Gingrich-Obama matchup: But even as Gingrich’s sudden rise has filled many Obama supporters with cheer and some Republicans with dread, some Democratic strategists worry that the combative Gingrich presents some challenges for the Obama campaign...

Newt Gingrich said that a threat from Nancy Pelosi to disclose information she learned while serving on an ethics committee investigating him during his time as Speaker of the House would "totally abuse the ethics process" and violate rules of the House of Representatives. "I want to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early Christmas gift," Gingrich said at a press conference in Manhattan Monday. Gingrich denounced Pelosi's threat as "a fundamental violation of the rules of the House," and said that if Pelosi were to disclose details of the investigation, it would expose the "tainted ethics...

Newt today said that if Pelosi wants to disclose information about himself from when she was on the ethics committee, that the House should immediately file charges against her as that is a violation of the rules of the House: First of all I’d like to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early Christmas gift. If she’s suggesting she’s gonna use material she developed while she was on the ethics committee, that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I would hope members would immediately file charges against her the second she does...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: No, it's not about that! It's not about that. It's all about the Senate. That's all it's about. It's about maybe taking the Senate and holding the House. They've given up on winning the White House, Snerdley. It's not about anything other than that. I've explained it once before. I'll be happy to explain it again. No, folks, we're talking about here the long knives are out for Newt Gingrich ... in the Republican Party! In what you think is the conservative movement. There is no conservative movement per se that includes conservative media. I've finally come...

Democratic strategist Jim Jordan says he and others in the party “passionately” want to face Gingrich. And from the right, conservative pundit Ann Coulter is warning that the former House speaker’s past extramarital affairs and other baggage make him a far less formidable nominee than Romney. But even as Gingrich’s sudden rise has filled many Obama supporters with cheer and some Republicans with dread, some Democratic strategists worry that the combative Gingrich presents some challenges for the Obama campaign that would not exist if Romney were the GOP candidate.... Gingrich could pursue a strategy that combines energizing the conservative base...

Pelosi plans to reveal information about Gingrich 'when the time is right' By Alicia M. Cohn - 12/05/11 11:44 AM ET House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year....

Electoral Map Showing the Latest on the 2012 Race. Pretty much a 196-196 tie between Safe/Likely Republican States and Safe Obama states with 12 states pretty much deciding the outcome. Of the 12 States, 3 Lean Republican (MO), (VA), (FL), 4 Lean Democrat (PA), (NV), (CO), (MI), and 5 are absolute toss-ups (NH), (IA), (OH), (WI), (NM). Also speculation on Potential Running mates.

Yes, he's imperfect. Who's not? But compare Gingrich to Obama. G has a Ph.D. in history (something the leftist media always forgets to tell us) and has written 20 books, some of them good ones, all expressing a deep understanding of the unique American experiment and the U.S. Constitution. Obama thinks the Constitution is some kind of white imperialist plot designed to keep the victims of the world down and oppressed. That's why he did those deep bows to medieval tyrants like President Hu (the terror-master of Tibet), the figurehead emperor of Japan, and the desert-king of Arabia, King Abdullah...

Here's mine-  shredding a MSNBC reporter's loaded question re. Palin's qualifications on the floor of the  2008 Republican National Convention. I'm  not endorsing ole Newt, yet -actually, I've trashed him over  the Scozzafava debacle, etc on this site- the guy's simply not my first choice.  But one thing we need for this battle is a FIGHTER...  and you do get that with this brilliant -yet flawed- candidate.I could watch the lib media get smacked around the room like this every day... [YouTube] Video/more at Reaganite Republican

With just under 30 days until the first nominating contest in the country, the ad war in Iowa is officially heating up this week as four campaigns are pouring in cash and air time to try to boost their standing through television spots airing across the state. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who leads the Republican pack in the Hawkeye State, will release his first television ad Monday. Titled “Is The America We Love A Thing Of the Past? Newt Says No,” the minute-long ad will appear statewide on broadcast and cable with an ad buy of $250,000....

It’s Iowa minus 32 days, and barring yet another resurrection (or event of similar improbability), it’s Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here’s the scorecard: Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed. However, the brittleness he showed when confronted with the kind of informed follow-up questions that Bret Baier tossed his way Tuesday on Fox’s “Special Report” — the kind of scrutiny one doesn’t get in multiplayer debates — suggests that Romney may become increasingly vulnerable as the field narrows. Moreover, Romney has profited from the temporary rise and spontaneous combustion of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry...

With the Republican field’s first major test just weeks away, the failed presidential bid of Herman Cain is throwing his support behind the current frontrunner. Sources told Fox 5 Atlanta that Herman Cain will endorse the presidential bid of Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Several sexual harassment allegations and a claim of a long-term affair left the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO’s White House bid all but destroyed.

The Gingrich campaign contacted me directly last night about the comments that he made to ABC News. The campaign sent me the following statement from Newt Gingrich. (Which is also on their website). I am very glad that the Gingrich campaign was quick to respond to the fallout from the ABC News interview and that they came out with a strong pro-life statement which reaffirms the scientific fact that life begins at conception....

It may seem a technical point to some, but to those focused on abortion as an issue, it isn’t. Breaking from groups that believe human life begins at the moment an egg is fertilized — also the position of the Catholic Church, of which he is a member — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told ABC News he believes life begins at implantation. But he expressed confidence that he can win the vote of anti-abortion activists despite this difference.