You've got to give it to Gingrich - the man's ability to leap from astute political timing to disastrous miscalculation is nothing short of astonishing. Gingrich was once the Republican front runner until his fantasies about moon colonies and the enormity of his intellect ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mailbag! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez discuss the insider secret that Obama's victory is almost guaranteed, whether the latest edition of 'The Newsroom' was in bad taste and how crazy Romney would be to pick Newt Gingrich as his ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

By Bob Cesca: You can tell it's August in a general election year because Republican A-listers are jumping through Flaming Hoops of Crazy in order to be considered for the job of wingnut red meat chucker for the next four years. Take Newt Gingrich for example. Since he ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his campaign next week and endorse Mitt Romney, his spokesman has said. Mr Gingrich now says he expects Mr Romney, who won five primaries on Tuesday, to be the Republican nominee. The campaigns are said to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: The reason why Newt Gingrich never had a chance in the Republican Presidential primary wasn't because of his political views or even his lack of funding. Gingrich was destined to fail because every now and then, he spoke his mind. Before he decided to run for ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: Finally, former Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum has called it a day and suspended his Presidential campaign. This comes as no surprise as a win against Mitt Romney has been unthinkable for several weeks now given the discrepancy in funding and support from ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Newt Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule, laying off about a third of his staff and dismissing his campaign manager as he focuses on a last-ditch effort to win the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention. Gingrich's strategy hinges on ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Check out this highly entertaining back and forth between Wolf Blitzer and Newt Gingrich on the final Florida GOP debate last night after Blitzer challenged Gingrich on assertions he had made about Mitt Romney's personal finances: < It is incredible to watch Gingrich's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I sat down to watch the GOP debate in Florida last night, the first time I've done it with the intention of seeing the whole thing through (otherwise, I have just skipped through youtube clips for the best highlights). After about 30 minutes, I couldn't take any more. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I've been saying consistently the Mitt Romney is a sure bet for the Republican nomination. After Newt Gingrich's dominating performance in South Carolina this weekend, I'm now not so sure. Romney has a very, very serious problem on his hands as Gingrich's portrayal of him as an ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I hate to say this, but Gingrich's evisceration of John King last night on CNN was entirely justified. In response to a question about his treatment of his ex wife (he apparently asked her for an open relationship), Gingrich shot back with the following: I think the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The NYTimes looks at the emerging art of using old videos to go negative: It is the attack-ad technique of choice for the 2012 election: anything you have said or done on film will be held against you. And its prevalence has helped make the Republican primary campaign a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan reacts to Newt Gingrich's simplistic foreign policy vision that lumps all Middle Eastern countries together and heralds John Bolton as the man to head US international relations: Conservatism is concerned with reality, which it understands shifts with culture, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan on the farcical Presidential candidacy of Herman Cain that has finally come to an end: He was also emblematic of contemporary conservatism's degeneracy into an extension of an entertainment franchise. Whatever else can be said of Cain, he sure was ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Chez Pazienza on the tragic consequences of America's serious Attention Deficit Disorder: How do we know our attention spans are shrinking, that vast swaths of our culture have turned into Lenny from Memento? Newt Gingrich -- a guy who just a few months ago was declared DOA ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Joan Walsh has compiled a laundry list of the unbelievably despicable behavior Newt Gingrich has engaged in over the years: Shutting down the government in 1995 at least partly because President Clinton allegedly snubbed him by seating him in the rear of Air Force One on a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018