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...contested that these dark-horse contenders will outlast the big-name politicians in the 2008 campaign at an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum yesterday. The event, part of the “Campaign 2008: Looking Ahead” series, featured top strategists for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Ark. Governor Mike Huckabee, and former Wis. Governor Tommy Thompson. While the representatives for Huckabee and Thompson touted their candidates’ credentials, Gingrich’s senior advisers peddled no such ambitions. Gingrich’s strategists said the former speaker of the House has not decided whether...
...first three months of the newDemocratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid has dominated the public consciousness as Newt Gingrich did when the Republicans came to power in 1995. There is a reason for that. A much bigger story is unfolding: the epic collapse of the Bush Administration...
...that he began his public life in Reagan's Justice Department. Mitt Romney invokes Reagan's example to explain his change of heart on abortion. John McCain calls himself a Reagan Republican, citing the fact that he entered politics in the early 1980s as a Reagan supporter. Newt Gingrich, waiting on the sidelines, compares the current Republican leadership unfavorably to Reagan - whom he supported as an upstart G.O.P. Representative...
...Newt Gingrich confesses his serial marital sins to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and wins absolution; Mitt Romney admits the error of his earlier tolerance of abortion rights. John Edwards seldom misses a chance to repent of his vote for the war, to highlight Hillary Clinton's refusal to do likewise. As for paying for past mistakes, Barack Obama took care of $400 worth of parking tickets left over from his law-school days--two weeks before he announced his candidacy...
...Mission accomplished for Gingrich, Dobson and Falwell. "That point of disappointment back there someplace" has been dealt with. Am I the only one now even more disappointed with the outcome...