Matt Lewis

Newt Gingrich is out swinging with a new web ad dubbed, “For The Dogs.” The soon-to-be released ad highlights some of Romney’s most humorous verbal gaffes — an obvious attempt to poke holes in the notion of Mitt Romney’s electability.

It features clips of some of Romney’s not-so-greatest moments, including greatest hits like:

“I like being able to fire people…”

“Corporations are people.”

“I’m running for president for pete’s sake, I can’t have illegals.”

“10,000 bet?”

“Small varmints, if you More »

Newt Gingrich has a full page ad in the Union Leader today, quoting people who say Democrats want Mitt Romney as the nominee.

They’re taking Mitt Romney out of context. And they’re doing it with glee.

This headline says it all: “Romney Likes ‘Being Able to Fire People’.”

(Romney, of course, wasn’t talking about firing employees — as the headline implies — but rather, allowing citizens to fire their insurance companies More »

Let’s suppose, having just won Iowa, Mitt Romney goes on to win New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries (this is not an impossible scenario).

Romney would have, at that point, won just 37 of the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination. (The likely amount is much lower; he won’t win all 12 of New Hampshire’s delegates.)

Psychologically, he would be perceived as unstoppable. But mathematically, not so much.

Note: The reason Romney would have accumulated so More »