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I cannot recall a candidate with as much baggage as Newt Gingrich having a real shot at a presidential nomination. Certainly not Bill Clinton in 1992, and you have to go back to Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 to come close. While none of these in and of themselves might spell electoral disaster, together they [...]
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The Ticket - Newt Gingrich was the most important Republican of the 1990s. None of his current rivals for the party's 2012 presidential nomination have played an analogous role for even an hour. After more than three decades on the ... Read Post

If you don’t believe Newt Gingrich has baggage that will surely chip away at his polling numbers if he gets the Republican Presidential nomination — which I increasingly feel he can do — then just read Maureen Dowd, who effectively ... Read Post

Newt Gingrich is now suddenly the candidate to beat Mitt Romney. And conservatives are said to be "salivating" at the chance of watching him debate President Obama. But the truth is that a Newt Gingrich nomination would be a disaste... Read Post