The Party is Over

This blowhard's ill-fated campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is in such dire straits that he has dismissed half the paid staff and taken to selling photographs of himself for $50 a pop.

The Ringmaster and The Candidate

The former House Speaker and current flavor of the week cavorts with the Donald whose apparent influence in the Republican party is curious and bizarre.

Pathetic Newt

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Pillsbury doughboy, finished far back in the back of the over-hyped but meaningless Aimes straw poll. With campaign advisors exiting his campaign, not unlike sailors trying to save themselves from a sinking ship, and with a message that hasn't gained much traction among the party faithful, Gingrich is a politician whose best days are behind him. He should follow Tim Pawlenty's example and exit stage right.

Newt's Rocky Start

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich has incurred the wrath of the right and thereby done incalculable damage to his presidential aspirations by characterizing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposals as "right wing social engineering" and by endorsing some form of health care mandates.

Newt Explores

Newt Gingrich, the ethically challenged former House Speaker, has announced an exploratory committee to determine the feasibility of a run for the Republican presidential nomination. As thrice married and serial adulterer, Gingrich brings considerable baggage is trying to sell Republican primary voters, many of whom reflexively frown on such domestic arrangements, that he is their man.

Sotomayor's Critics

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow weighs in, and quite effectively, on the charges of Sonia Sotomayor's racism emanating from the guiding lights of the Republican Party - Gingrich, Limbaugh and Tancredo:

Someone pinch me. I must be dreaming. Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!

The same Newt Gingrich who once said that bilingual education was like teaching “the language of living in a ghetto” tweeted that Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist.” The same Rush Limbaugh who once told a black caller to “take that bone out of your nose and call me back” called Sotomayor a “reverse racist.” The same Tom Tancredo, a former congressman, who once called Miami, which has a mostly Hispanic population, “a third world country” said that Sotomayor “appears to be a racist.”

This is rich.