thedailybeast.com - 3/26/2009
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Newt Gingrich The much-married Newt Gingrich converts to Catholicism this weekend and I d pay a year s salary to have been a bug on the wall during his religious instruction. Brace yourselves for a tsunami of punditry this weekend, when the much-married Newt Gingrich is received into the ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 4/2/2009
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
(CNN) — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is
warning of a third party mutiny in 2012 if...
Republicans don’t figure out a way to shape up. “If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would ...
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Gingrich warns of third party in 2012
mediamatters.org - 3/24/2009
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mediamatters.org —
Newt Gingrich, guardian of Catholic values Published Tue,
Mar 24, 2009 12:19pm ET by Jamison Foser FOX...
contributor Newt Gingrich is upset: To which Matt Cooper replies: That isn't really fair to Newt, though. Gingrich has only been divorced twice ...
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Newt Gingrich, guardian of Catholic values
thedailybeast.com - 3/29/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
Newt Gingrich As Newt Gingrich converts to Catholicism,
a leading Catholic conservative says his sins including an...
affair with a congressional aide "no longer exist." Is he gunning for 2012? When Catholic University announced in January 2005 that Newt ...
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Is Newt Preparing for a 2012 Run?
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The Poping Of Newt
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
How does a thrice-married philanderer become a Catholic? Christopher Buckley gets it: Mother Church can be rigid, but at times—bless her—she can think like a $700 an hour K Street lawyer. But a family man just elected the president of the United States, a president who ended the torture era in American government - no, he cannot visit Notre Dame. ...
Has his new Catholic confessor informed Mr. Gingrich...
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of the
Church's, er, position on oral sex?
Newt'll be pissed...
His wife, on the other hand (so to speak)...?
The discreet charm of Newt Gingrich
Balloon Juice —
... You may have heard that Newt Gingrich is becoming a Catholic this weekend. I’ll let Chris Buckley do the honors on the absurdity of all this: ...
Bolstered By Their Newest Star, Newt Gingrich, The Catholics Are Attacking
DownWithTyranny! —
... " so I could turn it into a videoclip starring Catholicism's newest pervert convert, Newt Gingrich. I released it on my indie label, 415 Records, in 1982, when Gingrich was just a Southern Baptist congressional backbencher and still only on his second wife. ...
Newt Gingrich Becomes a Catholic, Thus Complicating His Next Divorce
Politics Daily —
... resulting in the famous "Contract With America." Four years later, he had to figure out a way to lead the impeachment of then-president Bill Clinton for having an affair with an intern while simultaneously carrying on an affair of his own. He succeeded handily. Now comes his latest hurdle: Gingrich became a Catholic over the weekend, which runs at great odds with his number one hobby-- getting divorced. Will it work? Chris Buckley, for one, is skeptical... The much-married Newt Gingrich converts to ...
Gingrich Gets (a New) Religion
The Caucus —
... Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 and a Catholic, was threatened by some bishops with excommunication because of his support for abortion rights. Mr. Gingrich, who has not run for elective office since he was forced out of Congress in 1999, has toyed with running for president in the past and is much-rumored to be considering a 2012 bid. It is not clear how his Catholicism might affect his political future. But even before his conversion, Mr. Gingrich was branded a hypocrite in the blogosphere after he wrote in a recent ...
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Gingrich On Whether Waterboarding Is Torture: ‘I Can’t Tell You’
thinkprogress.org 4/27/2009 — On Friday, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren interviewed former House speaker Newt Gingrich regarding President Obama's recent release of Bush-era OLC torture memos . Throughout the interview, Gingrich tried to sit on the fence of the torture debate -- ...
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lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/21/2009 — I realize that it's factually true that Newt Gingrich has a doctorate in history and that this peculiar fact illuminates, in a weird way, many of the deeply silly ideas dispensed from the gumball machine that people generally mistake for an actual ...
Eric Boehlert: Who cares what Newt Gingrich thinks?
mediamatters.org 5/19/2009 — Newt Gingrich made headlines late last week during an
interview with ABC News when he unloaded on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding the unfolding
Beltway process gotcha story about what she knew about the use of torture seven years ago. Gingrich ...
You Can't Keep Newt Gingrich Down
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 5/25/2009 — It's strange to think that a guy who served as Speaker of the House for a mere four years, ending his stint more than a decade ago, has now been able to command such a loyal following in the DC media types that he is making regular national TV ...
GINGRICH SEES THE PROBLEMS BUT WHERE ARE THE SOLUTIONS?
rightwingnuthouse.com 2/3/2009 — I have written extensively on a man I consider one of the most brilliant conceptualists in the conservative movement, Newt Gingrich. There is little doubt that Newt drives both friends and enemies batty at times and, like all conceptualists is given ...
Gingrich lies to Congress about climate legislation
scholarsandrogues.com 4/26/2009 — newt S&R has been following Newt Gingrich’s lies about energy and climate since last year when he pushed the “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.” lie in response to last summer’s oil price woes. On Friday, Gingrich appeared as a minority witness, on a ...
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