newt gingrich campaign. newt gingrich still doing more than a third of his upcoming events as book signings and dvd screenings. running for president it turns out is a great way to sell your stuff. the whole idea behind newt's stuff, the whole idea behind newt incorporated is that you should want to buy newt gingrich books and should want to buy newt gingrich dvds and want to pay thousands of dollars to get fake awards from newt gingrich enterprises because newt gingrich is such an important and very serious man. that is the whole marketing concept behind newt gingrich incorporated. and that dovetails really nicely with running for president because if you're newt gingrich, running for president sort of givings givings you a justification to talk about yourself in rather grandiose terms. for example, late last week at an event in michigan, mr. gingrich was asked about judges. dave wiegel at slate.com was at the event and quotes mr. gingrich as responding this way. "if you go to newt.org, you'll see an entire

newt gingrich campaign. newt gingrich still doing more than a third of his upcoming events as book signings and dvd screenings. running for president it turns out is a great way to sell your stuff. the whole idea behind newt's stuff, the whole idea behind newt incorporated is that you should want to buy newt gingrich books and should want to buy newt gingrich dvds and want to pay thousands of dollars to get fake awards from newt gingrich enterprises because newt gingrich is such an important and very serious man. that is the whole marketing concept behind newt gingrich incorporated. and that dovetails really nicely with running for president because if you're newt gingrich, running for president sort of givings you a justification to talk about yourself in rather grandiose terms. for example, late last week at an event in michigan, mr. gingrich was asked about judges. dave wiegel at slate.com was at the event and quotes mr. gingrich as responding this way. "if you go to newt.org, you'll see an entire paper o

prestige of newt gingrich. prestige of the speakership of the house. that's what they're selling. it's the newt gingrich signed gavel and newt gingrich framed certificate and the party where you're allowed or guaranteed you'll be allowed to be near newt gingrich. it is the letter you get from the desk of speaker newt gingrich. and today we have learned that it's not just small businesses and doctors who've been suckered into the whole access to newt fund-raising spam scam. it's big companies, too. today "washington post" reports that the newt gingrich's health care think tank, the center for health transformation, collected $37 million over the past 8 years from some of the biggest health care companies in the country. companies like astrazeneca and blue cross blue shield and ge health care and wellpoint. all of these companies would pay newt's for h-profit health care thing, $200,000 a year in membership dues. what would they get for their membership dues money? in part, they'd get special access to the former

but newt gingrich is different. newt gingrich is different from all the rest of these pachinko ball front-runners for five minutes. newt gingrich is fun to cover in his moment in the sun here. because newt gingrich has been around in politics in one incarnation or another basically forever. to trace the origins of the eyebrow raising stuff that newt gingrich is promoting now that he's the presidential front-runner, go back to newt gingrich's old cassette tapes. remember cassette tapes? for all viewers younger than me, this is a cassette tape. used to have boom boxes and machines in our cars that would play these things and sometimes your car would mess it up and the tape could get tied like this. one of the things newt gingrich did when he was on his way to becoming speaker of the house newt gingrich -- look, i broke it. no, there it goes. he took over a republican organization called go-pac and he would send republican coaching cassette tapes to republican candidates for office all around the country. not just peop

herman cain's loss in the polls is newt gingrich's gain. since the last insider advantage iowa poll three weeks ago today, herman cain dropped 13 points and newt gingrich gained 13 points. that poll has newt gingrich way out ahead of the field in iowa. similarly in the latest rasmussen poll in iowa, again, three weeks ago, to last week, herman cain dropped 15 points and newt gingrich gained 23 points. looking at the overall national polls is sort of interesting for the atmospherics of the race. maybe it's helpful for fund-raising. you have to look state by state in order to get a true sense of who might win the nomination because we choose the nominees state by state and state by state the same principle for now seems to be holding. when cain drops, gingrich gains. in new hampshire, a rasmussen poll, a conservative leaning poll, we've seen over the last month herman cain dropping by 12 points, newt gingrich rising by 16 points. public policy polling which is a left leaning firm, they took a really interesting approach to this question. they

look at newt gingrich. newt gingrich is tied with mitt romney for second place in this poll. a new poll out today by marist and mcclatchyn, trailing romney by four points. newt gingrich's poll numbers started at nil but are pointing up. rick perry self-emulated and we're watching the art project known as herman cain self-emulate as well, it's not surprising that the beleaguered republican primary voters of this year will turn to yet another candidate begging them to please not be mitt romney. they've gone through this with donald trump now and michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain and expect them to do this with everybody in the field except for rick santorum. nobody's going to vote for rick santorum, come on. the idea of a newt gingrich surge is almost as absurd as people googling rick santorum and saying, i like what i found here, i'm going to vote for this guy. if you know nothing else about newt gingrich, what is the other notable thing that's happened to newt gingrich since he's been running for president this year? what's the one other thing? back in june, remember,

but newt gingrich is different. newt gingrich is different from all the rest of these pachinko ball candidates for five minutes. newt gingrich is fun to cover in his moment in the sun here. he's been around politics in one incarnation or another basically forever. to trace the origins of the eyebrow raising stuff that newt gingrich is promoting now that he's the presidential front-runner, go back to newt gingrich's old cassette tapes. member cassette tapes? for all viewers younger than me, this is a cassette tape. used to have boom boxes and machines in our cars that would play these things and sometimes your car would mess it up and the tape could get tied like this. one of the things newt gingrich did when he was on his way to becoming speaker of the house newt gingrich -- look, i broke it. there it goes. he took over a republican organization called go-pac and he would send republican coaching cassette tapes to republican candidates for office all around the country. people running for dogcatcher. if you were a r

this is the best day of newt gingrich's life. for newt gingrich this is a 13-point surge just since june when his entire senior staff quit en masse saying he wanted to sell books and dvds, and the staffers didn't think they were to help hulk ster his products and they walked. these poll results are a slap in the face, right? mr. gingrich celebrating his new top position in the polls tonight by doing a dvd screening in iowa. quote, newt and calista screen nine days that changed the world in carroll, iowa, at 7:00 tonight. this is newt's dvd about the pope. if you look at the events tab, you see lots of things like that. tomorrow night calista gingrich will hold a book signing at webster city, iowa. later that day both newt and calista screen a documentary in massachusetts, because that's such an important republican swing state, massachusetts is. on saturday calista will be signing books at the hooray for kids book sfor and they sign books at books amillion in naples florida. this is what newt gingrich lists as hi campaign events.

"for president, newt gingrich." now, it is not shocking that "the union leader" would endorse somebody other than mitt romney despite what you heard about this weekend and today. this newspaper, in fact, seems to dislike mitt romney. they spent the entire presidential primary season basically ripping mr. romney to shreds, running editorials like this one every few weeks. "the more mitt romney speaks, the less believable he becomes." ah. so the biggest new hampshire paper not endorsing mitt romney, given how we know they feel about him, that's not a big surprise. the big surprise is why this newspaper's publisher said that newt gingrich got the endorsement instead. listen. >> gingrich is going to have a better time in the general election than mitt romney. i think it's going to be obama's 99% versus the 1% and romney sort of represents the 1%. >> occupy the gop primary! i sort of think congratulations are in order here. anybody who doubted the effectiveness of the occupy wall street movement, doubted what they might

but newt gingrich is different. newt gingrich is different from all the rest of these pachinko ball candidates for five minutes. newt gingrich is fun to cover in his moment in the sun here. he's been around politics in one incarnation or another basically forever. to trace the origins of the eyebrow raising stuff that newt gingrich is promoting now that he's the presidential front-runner, go back to newt gingrich's old cassette tapes. remember cassette tapes? for all viewers younger than me, this is a cassette tape. used to have boom boxes and machines in our cars that would play these things and sometimes your car would mess it up and the tape could get tied like this. one of the things newt gingrich did when he was on his way to becoming speaker of the house newt gingrich -- look, i broke it. there it goes. he took over a republican organization called go-pac and he would send republican coaching cassette tapes to republican candidates for office all around the country. people running for dogcatcher. if you were a

newt gingrich." now, it is not shocking that "the union leader" would endorse somebody other than mitt romney despite what you may have heard about this this weekend and today. this newspaper, in fact, really seems to dislike mitt romney. they not only didn't endorse mr. romney the last time he ran for president, they spent the entire presidential primary season basically ripping mr. romney to shreds, running editorials like this one every few weeks. "the more mitt romney speaks, the less believable he becomes." ah. so the biggest new hampshire paper not endorsing mitt romney, given how we know they feel about him, that's not a big surprise. the big surprise is why this newspaper's publisher said that newt gingrich got the endorsement instead. listen. >> gingrich is going to have a better time in the general election than mitt romney. i think it's going to be obama's 99% versus the 1% and romney sort of represents the 1%. >> occupy the gop primary! i sort of think congratulations are in order here.

"for president, newt gingrich." now, it is not shocking that "the union leader" would endorse somebody other than mitt romney despite what you heard about this weekend and today. this newspaper, in fact, seems to dislike mitt romney. they spent the entire presidential primary season basically ripping mr. romney to shreds, running editorials like this one every few weeks. "the more mitt romney speaks, the less believable he becomes." ah. so the biggest new hampshire paper not endorsing mitt romney, given how we know they feel about him, tha listen. >> gingrich is going to have a better time in the general election than mitt romney. i think it's going to be obama's 99% versus the 1% and romney sort of represents the 1%. >> occupy the gop primary! i sort of think congratulations are in order here. anybody who doubted the effectiveness of the occupy wall street movement, doubted what they might accomplish, without a manifesto of demands, let the record show appealing to the 99% of americans and not the 1% is the stated

newt gingrich gives us last night red card as a possibility. is this a possibility for some sane immigration reform that protects human rights and the borders at the same time? >> one thing that is true is that many people don't want to immigrate permanently. that's not in their plan. they'd like to be able to come work and still call home home. and yet we have a pretty terrible relationship to guest worker programs historically in this country. the real question is does the program, does that solution protect the worker as well as it protects the employer? that program is really designed to protect employers from being sanctioned and fined. no one has ever gone to jail for hiring undocumented immigrants, but from that, too. but from my perspective, any migrant, any immigrant has to be able to own their own visa. they have to be able to move from employer to employer. they have to be able to fight abuse by their employer, if they need to organize in their workplace or form a union, they've got to be able to do that. those kinds of rights are no

about newt gingrich trying to get his hands on your money this time. oh, wait, actually the newt story is just about him trying to get his hands on your money again. there is new newt news about that today. today was a big, a big political news day. what is the most important presidential politics news of the day in the sense i think is the most devastating to a specific campaign is th thisfootage, footage that came in over the weekend of texas governor rick perry. an appearance that rick perry made in new hampshire on friday. now, this is sort of a sensitive issue to talk about. because there is not an empirical means by which i can explain why this footage may be the end of rick perry's campaign this year. there isn't something quantitative i can point out here. this does not count as a gaffe or something that he misspoke about and will have to clarify. looking at this footage, i would argue that rick perry can really no longer be considered a serious contender for president after this. this is one of these things where there's not really a way to ex

about newt gingrich trying to get his hands on your money this time. oh, wait, actually the newt story is just about him trying to get his hands on your money again. there is new newt news about that today. today was a big, a big political news day. what is the most important presidential politics news of the day in the sense i think is the most devastating to a specific campaign is this footage, footage that came in over the weekend of texas governor rick perry. an appearance that rick perry made in new hampshire on friday. now, this is sort of a sensitive issue to talk about. because there is not an empirical means by which i can explain why this footage may be the end of rick perry's campaign this year. there isn't something quantitative i can point out here. this does not count as a gaffe or something that he misspoke about and will have to clarify. looking at this footage, i would argue that rick perry can really no longer be considered a serious contender for president after this. this is one of these things where there's not really a way to expl

newt gingrich's cell phone ring tone is "dancing queen" by abba. jon huntsman, however, should be thought of less as swedish disco and more as pacific northwest genius grunge. >> to hear these two go at it oaf here it's almost incredible. you've got governor romney who called it a fraud in his book "no apology." i don't know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. >> there it is. kurt cobain, "all apologies." a nirvana reference. apparently totally lost on that republican debate audience in florida. judge your audience, sir. mr. huntsman may be wizard, but that was not a magic moment. mitt romney, in trying to humanize his rather stick figury persona, mitt romney has tried to drop some pop cultural knowledge on his peeps. last time around he blew it with a who let the dogs out thing. with a group of african-american youngsters -- do we have the who let the dogs out tape? do we still have that? >> who's got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? >> still awkward after all these years. mitt romney's cultural references. who, who. thi

newt gingrich's cell phone ring tone is "dancing queen" by abba. jon huntsman, however, should be thought of less as swedish disco and more as pacific northwest genius grunge. over here is almost incredible. you've got governor romney who called it a fraud in his book "no apology." i don't know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. >> there it is. kurt cobain, "all apologies." a nirvana reference. apparently totally lost on that republican debate audience in florida. judge your audience, sir. mr. huntsman may be wizard, but that was not a magic moment. mitt romney, in trying to humanize his rather stick figury persona, mitt romney has tried to drop some pop cultural knowledge on his peeps. last time around he blew it with a who let the dogs out thing. with a group of african-american youngsters -- do we have the who let the dogs out tape? do we still have that? >> who's got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? >> still awkward after all these years. mitt romney's cultural references. who, who. this time around have not been as

about newt gingrich trying to get his hands on your money this time. oh, wait, actually the newt story is just about him trying to get his hands on your money again. there is new newt news about that today. today was a big, a big political news day. what is the most important presidential politics news of the day in the sense i think is the most devastating to a specific campaign is specific campaign is this footage, footage that came in over the weekend of texas governor rick perry. an appearance that rick perry made in new hampshire on friday. now, this is sort of a sensitive issue to talk about. because there is not an empirical means by which i can explain why this footage may be the end of rick perry's campaign this year. there isn't something quantitative i can point out here. this does not count as a gaffe or something that he misspoke about and will have to clarify. looking at this footage, i would argue that rick perry can really no longer be considered a serious contender for president after this. this is one of these things where there's not

newt gingrich this year went from demanding u.s. intervention in libya before president obama made that decision, to totally reversing his position and insisting we should not do that once president obama decided what we should do. >> what would you do about libya? >> exercise a no-fly zone this evening. communicate to the libyan ç military that gadhafi was gone. this is a moment to get rid of him. do it. get it over with. i would not have intervened. i think there are a lot of other ways to effect gadhafi. i would not have used american and european forces. >> newt gingrich is trying to sound like the serious guy on foreign policy, but like the other republican candidates this year, he has not exactly distinguished himself on this. in order to seem like a serious candidate, you have to seem like you can handle some basics of foreign policy. that's why it's important for the likely nominee, mitt romney, to seem serious on this issue as well. mitt romney, for all his perceived seriousness, is just as bad as the rest of them on basi

newt gingrich this year went from demanding u.s. intervention in libya before president obama made that decision, to totally reversing his position and insisting we should not do that once president obama decided what we should do. >> what would you do about libya? >> exercise a no-fly zone this evening. communicate to the libyan military that gadhafi was gone. this is a moment to get rid of him. do it. get it over with. i would not have intervened. i think there are a lot of other ways to effect gadhafi. i would not have used american and european forces. >> newt gingrich is trying to sound like the serious guy on foreign policy, but like the other republican candidates this year, he has not exactly ç distinguished himself on this. in order to seem like a serious candidate, you have to seem like you can handle some basics of foreign policy. that's why it's important for the likely nominee, mitt romney, to seem serious on this issue as well. mitt romney, for all his perceived seriousness, is just as bad as the rest of them on basi

newt gingrich this year went from demanding u.s. intervention in libya before president obama made that decision, to totally reversing his position and insisting we should not do that once president obama decided what we should do. >> what would you do about libya? >> exercise a no-fly zone this evening. communicate to the libyan military that gadhafi was gone. this is a moment to get rid of him. do it. get it over with. i would not have intervened. i think there are a lot of other ways to effect gadhafi. i would not have used american and european forces. >> newt gingrich is trying to sound like the serious guy on foreign policy, but like the other republican candidates this year, he has not exactly distinguished himself on this. in order to seem like a serious candidate, you have to seem like you can handle some basics of foreign policy. that's why it's important for the likely nominee, mitt romney, to seem serious on this issue as well. mitt romney, for all his perceived seriousness, is just as bad as the rest of them on basic fo