Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
THE WEASHINGTON POST: The most important figure in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address wasn’t on the House floor. In fact, he hasn’t taken a seat in front of the chamber in 13 years.
But as he campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in Florida, former House speaker Newt Gingrich was doing more to boost President Obama’s reelection prospects than anything Obama himself could do. While Obama was using the speech to portray the Republicans as plutocrats, Gingrich was doing all he could to prove the caricature true. Read on and comment » | Dana Milbank | Opinion Writer | Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Monday, January 23, 2012
After Gingrich's 13-point victory in South Carolina, the primary here next Tuesday is a must-win for the former Massachusetts governor.
New polls from the Sunshine State indicate that Gingrich has powerful momentum.
In the course of a press availability here in Tampa that lasted a little over six minutes, Romney called the former House Speaker 'highly erratic', described him as having 'gone from pillar to post almost like a pinball machine', branded him an influence-peddling 'lobbyist' and suggested he was unstable.
Romney demanded that Gingrich return the $1.7million he earned as a self-described 'historian' for federal housing agency Freddie Mac and that he authorise the House of Representatives release all the documentation relating to an ethics investigation that led to his censure and a $300,000 fine.
Oh and Romney floated the idea that Gingrich might be guilty of criminal activities. Read on » | Toby Harnden | Monday, January 23, 2012
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
FOX NEWS: The largest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States on Wednesday condemned Newt Gingrich for saying he would only hire Muslims to his administration if they renounced the use of Islam's Shariah law as a tool for U.S. government.
Calling Gingrich "one of the nation's worst promoters of anti-Muslim bigotry," the Council of American Islamic Relations suggested the Republican presidential candidate is a segregationist.
"Newt Gingrich's vision of America segregates our citizens by faith. His outdated political ideas look backward to a time when Catholics and Jews were vilified and their faiths called a threat," said CAIR Legislative Director Corey Sayolor in a statement.
"The time for bias in American politics has passed and Newt Gingrich looks like a relic of an ugly era," Sayolor said.
CAIR said the release was prompted by the candidate's remarks Tuesday in Columbia when, asked if he would ever endorse a Muslim running for president.
"It would depend entirely on whether they would commit in public to give up Shariah," Gingrich said.
"A truly modern person who happened to worship Allah would not be a threat, a person who belonged to any kind of belief in Shariah, any effort to impose it on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat," Gingrich told the crowd, adding that he's "totally opposed" to Shariah law being applied in American courts and favors a federal law that "preempts" its use. » | Joy Lin | Wednesday, January 18, 2012
And the media despises Newt, right? He's so sarcastic and condescending towards us, brands us as elite liberals and uses us to whip up the Republican base.
Actually, wrong and wrong.
Gingrich loves the press. In some respects we are, as John McCain famously noted, his 'base'. He craves the media.
I've never seen a man so happy as Gingrich was when he ambled into the spin room in Myrtle Beach last Monday night and about 200 of us swarmed around him hanging on his every word.
Romney would have rather been anywhere else in the world than that in the middle of that heaving, sweaty scrum. But Newt was in pure heaven. He loves the game.
And it's mutual. The press laps up all things Newt. Like him, we thrive on chaos. He's a walking quote machine. You never know what he'll say next and he can't resist answering a question or engaging with a reporter. Read on and comment » | Toby Harnden | Sunday, January 22, 2012
BBC: Republican candidate Newt Gingrich has appeared on a talk show in the US after his win in the South Carolina primary.
He told NBC's Meet The Press that the establishment should be worried about a Gingrich nomination. Watch BBC video » | Sunday, January 22, 2012
Fox News projects that Mitt Romney will place second in the Palmetto State, where he was leading in the polls just one week ago. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are battling for third place, and that contest remains too close to call, though Fox News exit polls show Santorum with a slight lead over the Texas congressman.
Gingrich's victory marks a remarkable comeback for the former House speaker, propelled by his strong performance in two debates in South Carolina this week.
Romney's aides had been downplaying expectations by late Saturday, acknowledging the momentum that had been going Gingrich's way in recent days. » | FoxNews.com | Saturday, January 21, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
BLOOMBERG: Striving to regain ground in the final hours before the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney offered a dim assessment of his chances in the race as he sparred with a surging Newt Gingrich.
Traveling the state in the final full day of campaigning before today’s voting, the former Massachusetts governor sought to downplay expectations, describing the race as a “neck-and- neck” competition.
“I said from the very beginning South Carolina is an uphill battle for a guy from Massachusetts,” he told reporters yesterday in Gilbert, South Carolina. “We’re battling hard.”
Gingrich, seeking to ride what polls show is a late wave of support, planned a full day of campaign stops in a bid to top Romney.
“The only effective conservative vote to stop a Massachusetts moderate is to vote for me,” Gingrich told an overflow crowd of more than 500 voters yesterday at The Cinema Room in Orangeburg. “If I win tomorrow, I will go on to become the nominee.” » | Lisa Lerer and Julie Hirschfeld Davis | Saturday, January 21, 2012
THE TIMES: In his 35-year political career, Newt Gingrich has compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, William Wallace, Pericles, Charles de Gaulle, the Duke of Wellington, a Viking and Moses. Now, with the… » | Alexandra Frean, Charleston | Saturday, January 21, 2012 [£]
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Friday, January 20, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Newt Gingrich hit back at allegations of impropriety with a robust debate performance that, judging by a standing ovation it received a South Carolina audience, instantly improved his chances of winning the state’s primary on Saturday.
The former Speaker’s second wife Marianne had made headlines earlier with an ABC television interview accusing him of asking for an open marriage as he admitted a six-year affair with the congressional aide Callista, who soon became his third wife.
CNN’s moderator John King opened the 17th debate of the primary season with a direct invitation to Mr Gingrich respond to the allegation.
“I am appalled you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that,” he responded.
“Every person in here knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question for a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.” » | Alex Spillius, Charleston | Friday, January 20, 2012
My comment:
Newt Gingrich has proven himself to be the bully of right-wing American politics. He has also proven himself to be without any moral or ethical anchors. Yet he has the audacity to lecture others on such matters.
What manner of man would leave his wife after being diagnosed with cancer? What manner of man would then proceed to leave his second wife after being diagnosed with MS? Then, to cap it all, he is the master of extra-marital affairs as well.
The crass way he attacked John King last evening 'for having the temerity' to ask him such a "despicable" question about his infidelities shows nothing but a man in desperation. He is desperate to get to the White House, as he obviously has been all of his adult life. He dumped on his first wife because she would clearly have been unable to accompany him on his journey there; he dumped on his second wife for a similar reason. This shows he had no real love of either. Once it became clear to him that they were not First Lady material, he was off.
Is this the kind of man the Americans need to lead them through the morass they now find themselves in?
After 9/11, I dare say that Newt Gingrich would have been a good choice for president. More than ten years on, I doubt that. I fear that if Gingrich is selected to represent the Republicans in the race to the White House, the Americans – and all of us, actually – will be in for a very rough ride. This candidate is gung-ho. He will lead America to more wars that it can ill afford. – © Mark
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abc NEWS: Newt Gingrich earned a standing ovation from a South Carolina crowd Thursday night when he angrily rebuked moderator John King for opening CNN's Southern Republican Debate with a question about claims he'd asked his second wife for an "open marriage."
"Would you like to take some time to respond to that?" asked King.
"No, but I will," said a visibly angered Gingrich, earning sustained applause.
"The destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that," he said.
The crowd in Charleston, S.C., leapt to its feet and cheered. » | Mark Schone | Thursday, January 19, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Gingrich Shoots the Messenger » | Jon Swaine, Charleston | Friday, January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich is denying that he ever asked his ex-wife for an open marriage and is angrily denouncing the moderator of tonight's Republican debate for raising the issue.
Gingrich blasted what he called the 'destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media.'
The former House speaker slammed CNN moderator John King during the debate, saying that he was 'appalled' that King would begin a presidential debate on such a topic.
Gingrich called the question about his ex-wife's allegations, in his words, 'as close to despicable as anything as I can imagine.'
The former speaker's second wife, Marianne Gingrich, says in an interview with ABC News that when she discovered Gingrich was having an affair he asked her for an open marriage.
'I am tired of the media protecting Barack Obama by attacking republicans,' he said.
Asked whether Gingrich's past infidelity is relevant to the campaign, Republican rivals Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul were not eager to criticise him on his marital woes. » | Daily Mail Reporter | Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
abc NEWS: Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.
In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich. » | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Thursday, January 19, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Newt Gingrich's ex-wife Marianne has given an interview to ABC News that she said could end the Republican presidential hopeful's career, according to reports.
The interview with Mr Gingrich's wife of 18 years is set to air on Thursday evening, two days before South Carolina holds its presidential primary.
"Her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail," The Drudge Report stated.
Mr Gingrich, 68, has been married three times. When he was 19, he married Jackie Battley, his former teacher who was 26 at the time. He then married Marianne Ginther in 1981 after having an affair with her.
In the mid 1990s he started an affair with his now third wife, Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. » | Barney Henderson | Thursday, January 19, 2012
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MEDIAite: Nightline Preview: Marianne Gingrich Says Newt Gingrich Wanted An Open Marriage: ABC News has released a preview of it’s upcoming bombshell interview with Marianne Gingrich, second wife to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and it is, indeed, a doozy. In fact, when reached for comment, several prominent doozies even exclaimed “Whoah!” » | Tommy Christopher | Thursday, January 19, 2012
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A new CNN poll said Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich before Saturday's primary had shrunk to 10 percentage points, 33 percent to 23 percent, down from a 19-point lead two weeks ago.
The results, and a clear sense of urgency in the Romney campaign, suggested that Gingrich's calls for Romney to release his tax returns and efforts to brand the former Massachusetts governor as an out-of-touch elitist could be resonating in South Carolina, where the jobless rate is near 10 percent.
The head of Romney's campaign in South Carolina, Curtis Loftis, appealed to supporters to turn out on Saturday.
"We've got to work harder than you know. We've got to get everyone to the polls, or we will not be able to send Barack Obama home," he told a crowd in suburban Columbia. » | Alistair Bell | COLUMBIA | South Carolina | Wednesday, January 18, 2012
"I've always believed the mission is greater than the man. As I have contemplated the future of this campaign, I have come to the conclusion that there is no viable path forward for me in this 2012 campaign," Perry, 61, told supporters in South Carolina, the conservative southern state where he had hoped to revive his campaign in Saturday's Republican presidential primary.
"Therefore today I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for president of the United States," Perry added. "I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country."
Perry entered the race in August and briefly was at the front of the pack of Republican candidates, but a series of gaffes, lackluster debate performances and controversial statements during the campaign undermined his standing in polls.
Speaking of Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Perry said: "We've had our differences, which campaigns will inevitably have. And Newt is not perfect. But who among us is?"
"The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my Christian faith," Perry added. » | Will Dunham | WASHINGTON | Thursday, January 19, 2012
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