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She is out of her mind, she accused Newt of changing what he says based on who is listening, hello Romeny, also, She said Romeny is the MOST conservative in this race. Hope someone can post the link

Prior to the South Carolina primary, former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s television show, urged South Carolinians to vote for Newt Gingrich. Palin said that she wanted the vetting process to continue, as the current occupant of the Oval Office had not been thoroughly vetted before the election in 2008. Did Palin’s ‘endorsement’ help put Gingrich over the top? No doubt, outstanding debate performances coupled with Gingrich’s blistering of the media and Mitt Romney’s collapse due to missteps regarding the release of his taxes influenced the results to a great degree. But...

I receive "Tweets" from Obama's "attack watch" and have since the ridiculous site went into operation. They NEVER mention any Republican candidates other than Mitt Romney. Tonight is the FIRST TIME since the campaign began they have targeted Newt Gingrich. I think this is an EXCELLENT sign that the "Newt" has the country's attention and the Kenyan knows it. Here is their message: @AttackWatch: Gingrich tries discredited Saul Alinsky attack line against @BarackObama: OFA.BO/V9rZAb KEEP IT UP MR. SPEAKER

Newtzilla is back. Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that "conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla…. Everything bad about Gingrich — the flip-flops, the wives, the ego — is known. Once voters have convinced themselves they can overlook that stuff, it's hard to change their minds simply by repeating it." For a while, it looked like I was wrong. The relentless artillery fire from Mitt Romney's "super PAC" seemed to have felled the gray-maned leviathan in the cornfields of Iowa. But as anyone who has studied the oeuvre of Toho Studios (makers of more...

Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign is showing signs that the former House speaker may pull off a win in the Feb. 4 Nevada GOP caucus, as preliminary polls and news reports show him surging in the Silver State. Gingrich's candidacy was declared dead repeatedly over the last several months, but with his trouncing of assumed frontrunner Mitt Romney Saturday in the South Carolina GOP primary, news outlets and early polling suggest he may be able to sieze another key win in Nevada, the "first in the West" of this year's caucuses. Las Vegas-based political TV reporter Jon Ralston tweeted the following...

The race for the Republican Party nomination is now Newt Gingrich’s to lose. Again. What a difference 48 hours makes. On Saturday night, as the votes were being tallied in South Carolina, Nate Silver of the New York Times gave Mitt Romney a 93% chance of winning Florida. Today, Nate Silver of the New York Times gives Newt Gingrich an 86% chance of winning Florida. Huh? The first prediction was based on polls that showed Romney up by 12 (Quinnipiac), 11 (Survey USA), 22 (Rasmussen), 26 (Sunshine State News/VSS), 24 (CNN/Time) and 15 (PPP). Then came the debates last Monday...

A Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, Winning our Future, will receive $5 million from Nevada-based billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, John Ralston reported Monday night. "$5M more from Adelson coming this week to help Newt," Ralston reported on Twitter, adding in another post, "I'm hearing the $5M check is coming from Adelson's wife, Miriam, as early as tomorrow." The cash will serve as a major boost to Gingrich's efforts in Florida, a state full of pricey media markets.

The following are some of the key Post stories on the House ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). IRS Clears Foundation That Aided Gingrich Course, February 4, 1999 Gingrich Pays Off Ethics Penalty, December 31, 1998 Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich, October 11, 1998 Gingrich to Pay Penalty With His Own Money, September 15, 1998 Speaker Sets $150,000 Limit on Borrowing From Dole, May 16, 1997 Gingrich to Pay Penalty With Dole Loan, April 18, 1997 House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker, January 22, 1997 Files in Gingrich Case Detail Misstatements, January 19, 1997 Ethics Panel Supports...

Mitt Romney’s greatest asset and his primary pitch to voters, the assumption that he is the most viable candidate to face President Obama in a general election, is taking a bruising after Newt Gingrich trounced him in South Carolina on Saturday. The latest Gallup tracking poll of the electorate shows President Obama at parity with both Romney and Gingrich – both Republicans pull 48 percent of the electorate to Obama’s 50 percent. Among national Republicans, Romney’s 10+ point lead over Gingrich has evaporated nearly overnight. Romney’s 23 point lead over Gingrich on January 15 has turned into a 1 point...

I understand why he'd want to hit Newt hard on Freddie in Florida, which has taken a beating from the housing downturn. What I don't understand is what he'll say when Newt reminds the world tonight that Mitt put more than $250,000 in mutual funds that invested in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, among other government entities. Romney will come prepared with some sort of spin, but I think details are almost meaningless to most voters with tu quoques like this, especially with a candidate like Mitt who’s already perceived as two-faced. (Why is a guy who’s famously worth nine...

Newt Gingrich might have led Republicans to their first House majority in 40 years in the 1990s, but the prospect of the former House Speaker becoming their presidential nominee is producing significant GOP angst. "If he's the nominee, it's a disaster. There is no way to sugar-coat it," said one GOP congressional strategist describing the tension after Gingrich won South Carolina. "There is a reason most people who know him best aren't supporting him," said a former House colleague still serving in Congress. Asked why he had endorsed opponent Mitt Romney if he had served with Gingrich for so long,...

All four remaining GOP candidates have been confirmed for tonight's debate sponsored by NBC News, the Tampa Bay Times, The National Journal and the Florida Council of 100. The debate will take place at the University of South Florida in Tampa. This will be the first of 2 debates this week focusing on the Florida GOP primary on Tuesday, January 31st. Note the air times on the east and west coast. Television Air Time: Monday, January 23rd at 9pm ET, 8pm CT and 9pm PT on NBC Live Streams: (airing 9pm ET) NBCPolitics.com, National Journal, and TampaBay.com Participants: Gingrich, Romney,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let me tell you something here, folks, very quickly before we go to the thing I promised to do. The difference here at the moment is a lot of the Republican establishment -- the insiders, the Republicans who want to keep spending money -- see Newt as a disaster waiting to happen for THEM: For their futures, for their political opportunity, for their chance to win the Senate and the committee chairmanships and be in control of the money. But a large part of the Republican rank and file, a large part of the Republican base don't...

One week ago, Mitt Romney amassed a record 23-point lead in Gallup tracking polls. But in the latest poll released Monday, the former Massachusetts governor’s advantage has evaporated to a single percentage point among Republican-leaning registered voters. Romney now stands at 29 percent to Gingrich’s 28 percent.

Congratulations, Newt!! The Gingrich Revolution begins here and begins now!! Thank you very much, South Carolina!! Thank you very much, Rick Perry!! Thank you very much, Todd & Sarah!! And now it's on to Florida!! Free Republic is all in for Newt and the rebellion is on!! I'm understanding from his debates and his website that Newt wants to totally dismantle the Marxist/socialist welfare state, fire the czars, repeal ObamaCare, repeal Dodd-Frank, repeal Sarbanes Oxley, privatize social security and medicare, return all federal socialist welfare programs to the states and the people to be controlled locally or shuttered, audit and...

Eric Bolling, host of 'Follow the Money' 10pmET on the Fox Business Network, is having Sarah Palin on his show tonight - he usually pre-records his interviews with Palin and just tweeted this: WOW!Gov Palin on Gov Chris Christie's "Newt-embarrassment": "Chris made a rookie mistake...got his panties in a wad" 14min"FollowTheMoney" intv 10p

The GOP Establishment in Abject Panic: They Don't Understand Their Own Base January 23, 2012 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, the Republican establishment is in a full-blown panic. And I -- and I'm not doing an I-told-you-so. This is a giant I-told-you-so. This is a reminder that I will illustrate. I told you this in almost the exact words you heard on television from Republican consultants and establishment people. I told you this was their fear back on November 10th of last year. They are in an out roar, a panic. They are secretly trying to get Mitch Daniels to get...

(CNN) - Mitt Romney's campaign released a blistering new Florida television ad against Newt Gingrich on Monday, eight days before the Sunshine State's presidential primary. "If Newt wins, this guy would be very happy," the ad's narrator says, as a photo of a smiling President Barack Obama appears on screen. The 30-second commercial, "Florida Families," is set to air statewide in Florida. In a part of the country that saw large amounts of home foreclosures, the ad particularly strikes Gingrich over his time as a consultant at mortgage giant Freddie Mac. "While Florida families lost everything in the housing crisis,...

Yes, I know: it’s amazing to even think about it, when you look back just a few months to the wreck of the SS Squarepants (as some idiot dubbed it). But when even Jonathan Alter is explaining to his MSNBC hostess why it’s time to start taking Mr. Newt seriously, you know the ground has shifted and, unlike the Costa Concordia, the ship is starting to right itself. So let me second Mark’s notion that the man who has resurrected Newt is the same guy who put him in the ground in Iowa, Mitt Romney. In fact, all the anti-Romneys,...