Newt Gingrich News

After a sex scandal, a one-time fighter for the middle class learned to love crony capitalism, writes John Avlon.

It's a great day to get out in the garden. and local pre-schoolers got a lesson in planting, today in Perry Square.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

A 2012 Republican presidential campaign intern who worked for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will make an initial appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges he cyber-stalked 15 women and extorted them into sending nude photos.

Strategy Group for Media CEO Rex Elsass will announce on Tuesday that he has hired Rick Tyler as his company's new president.

Get on and stay on the offensive. When your position is indefensible, don't defend it.

BRADENTON, Fla., March 6, 202012 -- If you could really scrape below the surface of objective reality and peer into the unconscious minds of Republicans who will vote today in 10 states for their choice of presidential nominees, which of the key issues in the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Sanctorum would really be ... (more)

That will be the question for congressional Republicans as they navigate the next year and a half before the 2014 elections.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

On May 10, Scott Pelley of CBS News received the 20th annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, presented by the Quinnipiac University School of Communications at a New York city luncheon.

I've sometimes found Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri a bit of a liberal jerk, like when she discussed what the 2012 presidential contenders should have given up for Lent , as in Rick Santorum needed to give up talking and Newt Gingrich needed to just give up.

Despite suggestions from such conservatives as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich to temper their rhetoric, more than a few Republicans these days are claiming that the so-called scandals that currently beset the Obama administration are the worst in American history.

It was bad enough that Republicans from Newt Gingrich on down derided Barack Obama as the "food stamp President" during the last campaign.

Republicans leaders are reportedly concerned that the scandal machine that has been kicked into high gear in recent days will lead to similar backlash the party faced over its endless and costly investigations into President Clinton in the 1990s: To veteran lawmakers, the sudden proliferation of investigations cannot help but raise the ghost of ... (more)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was front-and-center during the Republican-led impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 , is cautioning his GOP colleagues about the risk of appearing to be too eager as they dig into the scandals now dogging the Obama administration.

"We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with," said Hillary Clinton to the families of the four Americans killed at Benghazi and others gathered at a September 2012 memorial service.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

For everyone whose political memory goes back 15 years, can we not recognize some similarities to 1998? I don't want to say that President Obama is going to get impeached.

Once upon a time, the election season began with the New Hampshire primary in early March and never really gained momentum until the candidates were chosen and the fall campaign revved up.

Yesterday on Bloggingheads , Bill Scher, my liberal sparring partner, argued that pursuing "scandal politics" doesn't make sense for the Republicans.