Newt And Adoration

The Great Man’s Wife - NYTimes.com

IF you want to figure out why Newt Gingrich is still out there grasping for lost power, howling at the moon like King Lear, look to Callista.

You can find her anytime standing statue-still on stage next to Newt as he speaks, gazing at him with such frozen attentiveness that she could give a master class to Nancy Reagan...

“She’s a transformational wife,” Alex Castellanos, the Republican strategist, told me. “She’s the wife who makes the candidate think he is destiny’s gift to mankind, born to greater things...”

Blast From Toad's Past

Gingrich Ties to Fannie, Freddie Said to Extend to Speaker Days - Businessweek

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had ties to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae during his time as speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, adding to questions about the nature of his relationship with the home mortgage companies...

Pot 'n Kettle Theatre: Toad Edition

Newt Gingrich Plots His Comeback - The Daily Beast

...Gingrich’s critique of flawed leadership requires him to look no further than the mirror. As speaker of the House in November 1995, he boasted that he orchestrated a shutdown of the federal government largely because President Clinton snubbed him on Air Force One—relegating the speaker to the back of the plane and making him disembark by the rear door during a trip to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral. “It’s petty,” Gingrich explained his actions at the time, “but I think it’s human...”

GOPer Dirty Tricks In Komen-PP'hood Dispute?

Susan G. Komen: Wrong to drop support of Planned Parenthood - baltimoresun.com

Few organizations have done more for women's healththan both Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leading supporter of breast-cancer treatment and research, and Planned Parenthood, the country's top reproductive health care provider and advocate. To see the two organizations now at war is not only upsetting to many women's health supporters but all the more tragic because it's so unnecessary.

The most charitable interpretation of events would suggest that Komen was duped by anti-abortion advocates into cutting off support for breast exams at Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. That is expected to cost the latter organization as much as $680,000 in grants annually and potentially deny cancer screening to hundreds if not thousands of clients at Planned Parenthood health centers...

Newt's Sugar Daddy

The Man Behind Gingrich’s Money - NYTimes.com

...Those qualities may also help explain why Mr. Adelson, 78, has decided to throw his wealth behind what had once seemed to be the unlikely presidential aspirations of Newt Gingrich. Now, in no small measure because of Mr. Adelson’s deep pockets, Mr. Gingrich is locked in a struggle with Mitt Romney heading into Florida’s Republican primary on Tuesday...

Tea Baggers Uniting?

Cain endorses Gingrich - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

Atlanta businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich Saturday night at a West Palm Beach Country Republican gathering after two months of wavering on whether he would offer his support to a fellow candidate.

The endorsement comes just three days before the crucial Florida primary, by far the largest state to vote so far in the GOP sweepstakes, and could help Gingrich energize tea party support. Gingrich campaign has flagged since his upstart, double-digit victory over front-runner Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary a week...

Gingrich Family Values

"Gingrich Family Values: Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife."---from a Facebook post by Nathan Crawford attribted to a Yahoo commenter.

All About Newt

Yes, he avoided military service. Newt Gingrich: 15 Things You Don’t Know About Him