Newt Gingrich

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Early last night, when the mood at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign headquarters was a lot lighter than it later became, campaign communications director Rob Ryan told me that there were two major inflection points in the race. The first was when the Club for Growth endorsed Hoffman.
“We were [...]

“He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative,” said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.

I just talked with Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating about his group’s activity in the NY-23 special election. The Club, like many other conservative groups, has endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava. But this morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich endorsed Scozzafava, arguing that a GOP win was [...]

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical Gingrichian hyberbole:
The Republican Revolution in 1994 started very much like what we see today. Like then, our country is reeling from misguided liberal policies, high taxes and out-of-control spending. This [...]

Americans for Prosperity conference drew 2,000 activists from around the country to Washington.

Someone please tell Newt Gingrich that all porn is homosexual porn.
Earlier this month, a studio executive at a California-based pornography company won an Entrepreneur of the Year award from a conservative 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, founded by the former House speaker. It was a mistake, of course, and the invite to [...]

In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw poll with a 28 percent plurality of the vote. Five-hundred and ninety-seven people voted.
In October 2007, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) won the first straw poll held by this young event, [...]

The former Speaker of the House caught a break between Fox News Sunday interviews to travel to China with his wife Callista. The ensuing photo essay is a must-read. Gingrich’s thoughts on the complexity of the Chinese economy are stirring:
In Beijing, it occurred to me that Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s famous saying, “I do not [...]

On Wednesday, American Solutions for Winning the Future, a conservative 527 group founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), notified a pornography studio executive that she’d won the group’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Needless to say, Allison Vivas, president of Pink Visual, was shocked at the news.
“I’m honored, and more than a little [...]

As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich “appeared in a commercial about the environment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.” So he has the credibility to compare the push for climate change legislation today to the Soviet oppression of Poland in the 1980s.
This simple arithmetic – 2+2=4 – [...]