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Thomas Sowell
Posted: 1/24/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Just days before the South Carolina primary, polls showed Mitt Romney leading Newt Gingrich. Then came the debates and the question about Gingrich's private life, which brought a devastating response from the former Speaker of the House -- and a standing ovation from the audience.
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Michael Reagan
Posted: 1/24/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
He had a mistress who was pregnant and his wife had terminal cancer; he was running for president and the press knew all about it. But there was no firestorm in the media about this juicy scandal until after the election of 2008 because John Edwards is a Democrat!
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Mona Charen
Posted: 1/24/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
So the message South Carolina voters sent was -- "Anything goes so long as you attack the media."
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Pat Buchanan
Posted: 1/24/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Newt Gingrich's surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House.
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Bill Murchison
Posted: 1/24/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
One South Carolina Republican woman said she craved to see a "bulldog" at the top of the GOP ticket. That would describe Newton Leroy Gingrich all right.
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Crystal Wright
Posted: 1/23/2012 10:36:00 AM EST
A little over a week ago, Karl Rove advised Republicans to wrap their support around Mitt Romney because it was pretty much a done deal Romney would grab the GOP presidential nomination. “In an open race for the GOP nomination, no Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire, as Mitt Romney has,” wrote Rove. He went on to say South Carolina would be the last dance/chance for several candidates like Newt Gingrich.
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Bruce Bialosky
Posted: 1/23/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
In life, there are occasionally moments of great clarity. Sure enough, in the past couple of weeks there was a defining moment that patently identified who truly represents Republican principles and who are just impostors.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 1/23/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Those who take a certain pleasure in denouncing the evils negative political advertising should have spent the last week in South Carolina. They could have plunked down in front of TV sets, especially during morning, early evening and late evening news programs, and by adroit use of the remote control seen one negative spot after another.
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Salena Zito
Posted: 1/23/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The four Republicans remain in competition for the party's presidential nod after South Carolina's primary election. Saturday night's stunning results sent the four farther south today in advance of the Sunshine State's Jan. 31 primary.
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Doug Giles
Posted: 1/22/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
As a Christian, I will neither defend nor excuse Newt’s past adultery. That said, after watching his ex-wife Marianne go off on him on ABC, as a man, I now get why he supposedly wanted an “open marriage.”
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Chuck Norris
Posted: 1/21/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Our republic as our Founding Fathers created it is under assault from extremists outside our country and anti-constitutionalists inside our country.
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Rebecca Hagelin
Posted: 1/20/2012 10:31:00 AM EST
There's nothing that unifies conservatives more than this: We love to hate the media. And no one knows how to take that shared passion and encite us into a mob better than Newt Gingrich.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 1/20/2012 10:30:00 AM EST
The Lad came East to visit with some clients and had dinner with the Mullings Director of Standards and Practices and, as happens at family dinners in Your Nation's Capital, we talked about politics. I said that I understood that Rick Perry had cancelled much of his schedule on Wednesday afternoon which told me he was going to be out of this thing before the debate last night.
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Hugh Hewitt
Posted: 1/19/2012 10:24:00 AM EST
Will ABC's interview of Marianne Ginrich matter in the South Carolina primary? Will Mitt Romney's wealth and "effective tax rate of 15%" hurt him in the Palmetto State? Will the endorsement of Rick Santorum by key Evangelical leaders over the past weekend in Texas swing him crucial support on Saturday?
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 1/19/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The best part about the campaign trail is the places you go and the people you meet. This week, we are in South Carolina, and I am thrilled to be back in the Palmetto State. I graduated from Presbyterian College, located in Clinton, live across the state line in Georgia and feel very at home here.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 1/19/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The crowd at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach was feisty, with whoops and cheers for Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry, though not so much for Ron Paul.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 1/17/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
When political professionals get together to discuss things like ads, campaign tactics, and debates they know the only thing that matters in the end is: "Did it move votes?"
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Katie Kieffer
Posted: 1/16/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The Beatles once rocked America with their cover version of “Money (That’s What I Want).” Today, I’ll rock you with my version. Capitalism don't get everything it's true. What it don't get I can't use. Now gimme capitalism (that's what I want).
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Terry Paulson
Posted: 1/16/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Mitt Romney, fresh from victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, continues to attack President Obama and focus on how he has the business background to..."get America working again." But he can thank the Wall Street Journal, an angry Newt Gingrich, and opposition research for testing the mettle of the man early!
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Linda Chavez
Posted: 1/13/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
It's bad enough when Democrats start playing class warfare, but when Republican presidential contenders begin using phrases like "vulture capitalism," it's time to be really worried.
