Newt Gingrich

It looks like the end is near for the controversial narcissist who tried to turn a stint as the Pizza King into a presidential nomination. For a while, it looked like Herman Cain even had a chance to win. He was up in the national polls, and had captured many of the anti-Romney voters who seem to...

Barring a major change between now and the primaries this winter, someone among this group of five will likely be the Republican candidate for president in 2012. Each one has a path to victory and would represent a particular message that the GOP is sending to the American people for the 2012...

Financial sector stocks could be given a boost if Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich gets his way. The former House speaker, who has been rising in the polls, says that he wants to allow Americans to opt out of the Social Security system and place funds into personally managed...

Speaking at the Iowa family forum on Saturday evening, surging Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had some harsh words for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Despite a recent drop in Americans' support for the widespread movement, it is still viewed positively by one in three U.S. citizens....

As it turns out, the conservative Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have something in common with yours truly: The more they see of Republican candidates for president, the less they like them. According to Politico, the candidates show an inverse relationship between time spent with...

In a surprising new poll out Tuesday, Congressman Ron Paul — mocked by the media and ignored by his own party — has jumped to the front of the pack for the Republican nomination. Paul, who has been ignored for his libertarian views, is now in a four-way virtual tie with Herman Cain, Mitt Romney,...

While the mainstream media will certainly try to spin the latest Bloomberg poll, which shows that Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich are in a statistical dead heat in Iowa, the real takeaway is that Congressman Paul appears to be the front-runner in the state. The poll, which was...

Republican primary voters must really, really hate Mitt Romney. So far, they've done everything they can to out-and-out rebel against the probable GOP nominee. They've flirted with the likes of Donald Trump. They tried to talk themselves into Michele Bachmann. They played footsie with Rick Perry...

As the debate season roars on, the Republican nomination circus seems more like a bad season of The Bachelorette and less like a serious discussion about the leadership and direction of a major political party. Like the massive marriage game, the GOP nomination has come down to a few indisputable...

The verdict is in - Ron Paul won last night's GOP Presidential debate in Ames, Iowa. Much to the chagrin of the neo-cons at Fox News, the polls, and applause, overwhelmingly showed that the people thought Ron Paul won the debate. Fox News was even forced to take down its own poll from its website...

If there is anyone left working for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign, they need to pull the candidate aside and tell him it's over. Done. Finito. Newt Gingrich 2012 is as dead as the Contract With America that he and his half-wit, Tea-Party Precursors tried to pass in the mid-1990s. Two...

Is Newt Gingrich just desperate to go to jail, or has his ego grown so large that he imagines himself above the laws of the land? According to ABC News, Gingrich's for-profit company has taken $220,000 from a charity founded by Newt Gingrich over the last two years. The non-profit was supposed to...

Political pundits seem to pull their analysis out of thin air, filtering the candidate's performances through their own filters and expectations. The result seems to be support for bland candidates whose ideas most closely match the reporters involved. This is how we end up with nominees like old...

When he takes the stage tonight in the GOP presidential debate (8 p.m. EST on CNN), Congressman Ron Paul will do so with a chance to make history. Unlike his previous runs for President (1988 as a Libertarian candidate and 2008, where he was beaten by Senator John McCain), Paul enters this race as...

The B-List Republican 2012 nomination circus continues tonight, as the Presidential contenders gather to debate on CNN at 8 p.m. EST. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former...