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Newt Gingrich has crafted a reasonable comeback strategy considering his predicament and his goals for the country. Here are the cards that Newt has. He has built a tremendous and growing volunteer network. He has the ability to frame the most important issues facing the government. Notice that the media loves to schedule and interview Newt. Also, President Obama and Jay Carney are replying to Newt Gingrich's $2.50 per gallon and oil drilling proposals. As Newt stays in the race, Romney has to spend money on negative ads to attack and bring down both Santorum and Gingrich. If Newt stays...

After a disappointing night that found Newt Gingrich unable to register outright victories in the deep South, I'm left with the conclusion that the only capable conservative fighter we had left has been unfortunately tossed aside by primary voters in order to back an unqualified, low-charisma schmoe who will be pounded to smithereens in the general election if we give him the chance. And that's a big 'if'-Santorum himself admits he cannot win the nomination anytime before the Tampa convention: an internal memo reveals the goal as a 'contested convention' (same as Gingrich has been saying for weeks). I'm all for stopping Romney... but...

I was dead wrong last night in a post that I wrote here at freerepublic last night titled "Split" the convention - DON'T Split the Vote in the South! Romney is counting on it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2858265/posts?page=1 - and I have never been more pleased to be wrong. The lesson to me is that GOD is in control and He speaks to the hearts of man. I’m glad more people didn’t listen to me. I encouraged Santorum voters to vote for Newt Gingrich in Alabama and Mississippi because I was concerned that Santorum gaining in the polls would give Romney a chance...

Thankfully, former Speaker Newt Gingrich is every bit a social conservative as the former senator from Pennsylvania, and so would have that historical advantage that, along with the “It’s the economy, stupid” rule, regularly results in the election of Republican presidents and congressional majorities. So how did the young whippersnapper who previously won our Super Tuesday endorsement by avoiding anti-Bain venture capitalism-pile-ons while also contrasting his unblemished record against individual health care mandates as opposed to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts RomneyCare and 2009 advocacy for the individual mandates in ObamaCare? Unprompted, he essentially took the economy off the table for the...

The Gingrich campaign is going a second round with the White House over press secretary Jay Carney's remark that any politician who was promising cheap gas was "lying." “The idea of this administration, which has brought us a failed stimulus, boondoggles like Solyndra, $5 gasoline and record budget deficits, lecturing anyone on economics, would be funny if their utter incompetence weren’t so painful for the American people,” Gingrich spokesman Joe DeSantis said in a statement. “It is clear that Newt Gingrich is in the President’s head. Newt’s bold plan to maximize American energy production has the White House rattled because...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Republican Newt Gingrich says he'll campaign for president until the party's nominating convention in August, but his candidacy largely rests on the results of primaries Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi. Asked by reporters how he felt about his chances, Gingrich said: "Pretty good." -snip- "The reason I stay in this race is it's about more than right versus left. It's about being smart, it's about understanding the modern world," he said. Gingrich planned to be in Illinois on Wednesday to campaign for the March 20 primary there. -snip- In an address Monday to a Republican presidential...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney retracted his suggestion yesterday that Newt Gingrich "is lying" when he says that a change in energy policy could lower gas prices to $2.50 a gallon. "I shouldn't have gone to motivations," Carney told reporters during the press briefing. "I should have said that anybody who said that doesn't know what he's talking about." Carney was moderating a barely-veiled attack on Gingrich. "What [President Obama] is not willing to do is to look the American people in the eye and claim that there is a strategy by which he can guarantee the price of...

More than half of Republicans nationwide (53%) say that all members of the current field of GOP presidential candidates should stay in the race until one clinches the nomination. About one-fifth (21%) say that Newt Gingrich should drop out, leaving Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to compete for the nomination, while another fifth (20%) say all candidates but Romney should drop out, allowing Romney to focus on the general election campaign..... Some Santorum supporters have argued that Gingrich should drop out, saying that Santorum alone would have a better chance of consolidating the conservative GOP vote that has thus far...

In an email to reporters today, the Romney campaign rejected Rick Santorum's assertion that he could force a convention fight and win in Tampa, calling it "pure fantasy, or vanity, or both."The Romney operation is growing increasingly confident with their chances — even if Newt Gingrich drops out of the race to back Santorum, arguing that because not all of Gingrich's support will go to Santorum it means there are more delegates for Romney to pick up.Below is the email from the campaign: Good morning-Today is another election day and yet another day that our opponents will be unable to...

Birmingham, Ala. -- The question for Republican Newt Gingrich is not whether he will stay in the presidential race after Tuesday's primaries in Alabama, Mississippi and Hawaii. The question is where he'll take the campaign next. The Gingrich campaign provided the latest answer, announcing plans to head to Illinois and Louisiana later this week even as most polls offered little certainty about how Tuesday's contests would turn out. Gingrich, a former House speaker who represented Georgia, had predicted victories in nearby Alabama and Mississippi. But more recently he and his advisers have revised expectations to say that even a "strong"...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – No matter what happens in Tuesday’s Mississippi and Alabama primaries, Newt Gingrich says he will remain in the race, and he believes the combination of delegates being amassed by him, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul will keep Mitt Romney from hitting the magic number of 1,144 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president. Speaking on a local Alabama radio show on Tuesday morning, the former House speaker said there is an advantage to using a “tag-team” approach to defeating Romney, the current front-runner. “With Rick and me together, we are really slowing him down, with...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama ---Republican presidential primary candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, vying for the image of the most conservative candidate, spoke to a packed audience in downtown Birmingham tonight. The candidates, speaking at a forum at the Alabama Theatre sponsored by the Alabama GOP, both heavily criticized President Barack Obama while also critiquing the other candidates, even if it wasn't always by name. "You need to look to a leader that believes in you, and that's where I lie," Santorum said. The crowd was friendly to both candidates but seemed most warm to Gingrich, as was apparent by multiple cheers...

Newt Gingrich took an unusual approach at a Republican presidential candidate forum Monday night. He spoke from notes, which he rarely does, and he turned to the White House to give his candidacy a boost, noting, “The president’s press secretary today basically attacked me.” Gingrich, who has been promising to cut the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon, quoted White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who said Monday that Obama would not tell Americans he had a strategy to do the same. “Any politician who does that is lying,” Carney said. Bristling with crowd-pleasing witticisms the night before critical...

as a Santorum supporter I believe that Santorum voters in Alabama should vote for Newt Gingrich as Santorum will not likely win in either of those states. I do not believe that we can afford to vote for Santorum in those southern states right now because if conservatives SPLIT that southern vote, we are in serious danger of giving Romney a victory there, which would encourage the media to push Romney even harder. Also, Newt supporters should DEFINITELY vote for Santorum in Illinois. Santorum can win that state which Romney was counting on. Newt is polling around 10% in Illinois....

Check out our interview with the former House Speaker from tonight’s show...

Gingrich Spox Responds to Jay Carney on Gas Prices Atlanta, GA – Newt Gingrich Communications Director Joe DeSantis released the following statement responding to Jay Carney’s assertion that saying we can return to $2.50 gas “is lying.” “On the issue of gasoline prices, Newt Gingrich has the White House running scared and running on empty. That’s a truth the White House cannot deny. Polls show the American people reject President Obama’s excuses and fantasy solutions like algae. They want Newt’s $2.50 gas plan to dramatically increase domestic oil production so we can get lower prices at the pump.”

Birmingham, AL - Monday, March 12, 2012 The Alabama Republican Party hosts a presidential candidate forum with Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum at the Alabama Theatre in Birmingham. AL Candidates Forum: Live at 6:30pm (ET) on C-SPAN. The Alabama Republican Primary is Tuesday, March 13. Fifty Republican delegates are at stake.

Mitt Romney “can’t beat Obama” because of the similarities in their healthcare laws, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said in a web video Monday. Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) have argued before that Romney won’t be able to draw a sharp contrast with President Obama on healthcare. The new ad, though, does not simply argue that Gingrich would be stronger on the issue, but that Romney would lose a general-election matchup. “Two men, same plan,” the ad’s narrator says. “Republicans ran against Obamacare in 2010 and won. But how can we run against Obamacare in 2012 if Republicans...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney suggested Newt Gingrich is lying when he claims that he could reduce gasoline prices to $2.50 per gallon. Carney, who spoke during today’s White House briefing, did not specifically refer to Gingrich, saying instead that anybody who says that a strategy exists that can make the price at the pump $2.50 is “lying.” But Gingrich has made his claimed ability to reduce prices to $2.50 a gallon a major plank of his campaign, and the comment was clearly directed at the former speaker. Washington politicos rarely resort to the verb “to lie” when referring...

Newt Gingrich leads the Alabama Republican presidential primary with 34%. Gingrich is followed by Mitt Romney with 31%, Rick Santorum with 24%, and Ron Paul with 6%. Gingrich leads Romney 39% to 30% among self-identified Republicans, followed by Santorum with 23% and Paul with 3%. Among self-identified independents and Democrats, Romney leads with 33%, followed by Santorum with 28%, Gingrich with 17%, and Paul with 15%. Gingrich leads Romney 34% to 31% among likely Republican primary voters saying they will definitely vote in the March 6 primary, followed by Santorum with 25% and Paul with 5%. Gingrich leads Romney 37%...