Newt Gingrich

If you’re a political junkie, there was lots of news about the GOP nomination race to keep you busy on Thursday — but the story that grabbed most of the headlines involved salacious allegations made by one of Newt Gingrich’s ex-wives.

EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday he’s still the best conservative alternative to Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, brushing aside a report saying that a vote canvass in Iowa shows Rick Santorum ended up edging Romney in the state’s GOP caucuses...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry will abandon his presidential bid and endorse Newt Gingrich, two Republican officials said Thursday, a move coming just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary as Republican front-runner Mitt Romney struggles to fend off a challenge from the former House speaker...

SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney is a timid Massachusetts moderate, a flip-flopper on abortion and gun rights. As governor, he raised taxes and even tried to hike fees on the blind. Also, Romney is a liar full of “pious baloney” — according to Newt Gingrich...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he’s confident GOP conservatives will “gradually coalesce” around a candidate who can deny the party’s nomination to Mitt Romney. Gingrich calls himself “a Regan conservative” and says that’s the kind of nominee the GOP needs to defeat President Barack Obama...

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Newt Gingrich chided his GOP presidential opponents in a new TV ad for going negative and said separately Thursday that his checkered personal history wouldn’t be to blame if he begins losing voter support in the run-up to Iowa’s caucuses...

Conservative talk show host Michael Savage is seemingly so sure of Newt Gingrich’s inability to beat Barack Obama in the general election, that he’s willing to take him out of the race… by any financial means necessary.

CAIRO (AP) — A senior Arab League official condemned on Sunday a statement by Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich claiming Palestinians are an “invented” people, calling it racist and a cheap stunt to get votes. However Israeli Cabinet minister Uzi Landau said Gingrich was “right...