Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate

For Gingrich It Is Arizona and Georgia or ... for 02/16/2012

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Just three weeks earlier, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was sailing high. He won the South Carolina primary and seemed headed for Florida with the wind at his back. That was before Mitt Romney ripped him apart with the toughest and nastiest ads I have ever witnessed. To Romney's great credit, he buried Gingrich with ads and two strong debate performances in one week.

After the next ...

Updated: Thu Feb 16, 2012

GOP Race for Presidential Nomination May Be Decided in Jacksonville for 01/26/2012

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Never before have debates in the primary/caucus season ever meant so much to the final outcome of the vote than this year. It seems that the public is infatuated with these endless verbal battles. And each contest seems to result in some degree of a shift in public opinion.

The newsiest polls generally suggest that the race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Florida is a very tight ...

Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2012

Regardless of Who Becomes GOP Nominee, Party and Candidates are Failing the Faithful for 01/19/2012

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

After years as an officeholder, strategist, pollster, you name it, I have truly come to despise politicians. This year's GOP nomination process has sealed the deal.

Is there an honest broker among the bunch? I mean, really, we have heard the bull from the Obama administration, telling us that the economy is coming up roses. We hear that from some media, as well. My only answer for them i ...

Updated: Thu Jan 19, 2012

South Carolina Is Make or Break for GOP Contenders for 01/12/2012

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yes, Mitt Romney has a huge advantage in the race for the Republican nomination for president. Yes, Newt Gingrich and perhaps Rick Santorum made bad decisions by participating in the New Hampshire primary, given that Romney could outspend them in a state where most participants are hardly "conservative Republicans." But now every candidate must compete in a real, live "red" ...

Updated: Thu Jan 12, 2012

Strategy Will Decide Who Wins GOP Nomination for 01/05/2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

It will become conventional wisdom over the next few weeks that the Republican Party and its candidates for the nomination have been damaged by the close and surprise finish in Iowa. They will suggest the field is weak and that the failure of a candidate to win a mandate in Iowa would suggest a weak nominee in November. That's nonsense and wishful thinking by some pundits and media.

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Updated: Thu Jan 05, 2012

Chaos in Iowa Plays Into Obama's Hands for 12/29/2011

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

I have been polling Iowa presidential caucuses for several cycles now. Our InsiderAdvantage final poll never has failed to show the actual winner of an Iowa presidential caucus. This includes John Kerry's upset win in 2004 and Barack Obama's win in 2008, as well as Mike Huckabee's victory. Now that I've officially jinxed our poll for this year, let's examine why these candidates are actually pl ...

Updated: Thu Dec 29, 2011

Marley and Me for 12/22/2011

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yes, I know that "Marley and Me" was a hugely successful movie that came from a book. But as this Christmas approaches, seeing most of the Republican candidates for president desperately ripping each other apart with vicious and cruel statements, I am reminded again of Harry Truman's famous statement, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." That goes for all of poli ...

Updated: Thu Dec 22, 2011

GOP Jump Ball Could Lead to Ron Paul Upset Victory in Iowa for 12/15/2011

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Iowa Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich is really disliked by the so-called "GOP Establishment." These are the folks who backed George H.W. Bush against Ronald Reagan in 1980; sat back and watched Bob Dole take one for the team in 1996; and generally want a candidate who feels comfortable in his own Ivy League skin and alligator shoes.

But if you think they don't like Gingri ...

Updated: Thu Dec 15, 2011

It Is Gingrich's Race to Lose for 12/08/2011

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The GOP race for president is coming to a head very quickly. Yes, Newt Gingrich had a terrible launch. But that was in political time eons ago. Now, Gingrich is the last man standing. And if he keeps his mouth shut, he will be the GOP nominee.

He can run the table after New Hampshire. Notice, I did not say after Iowa. Iowa is a strange circumstance where standing in the polls sometimes m ...

Updated: Thu Dec 08, 2011

As He Lay Dying: The Most Important Column I Will Ever Write for 12/01/2011

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yes!!! My polling in the presidential race made Drudge today ... a first! I don't even care.

As I write, a true conservative/libertarian talk show host — one with a heart, with true personality, with a soul — is ready to die. He wants to die. And he is the greatest hero I have ever known.

I know I could have more readers if I wrote about my polling showing Newt Gingric ...

Updated: Thu Dec 01, 2011

Meet the New Newt Gingrich for 11/17/2011

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

While I poll and analyze the 2012 presidential race straight down the middle, an equal opportunity offender, I am in a unique position to explain who "the new" Newt Gingrich is, and why he is starting to race up to the top of national and various state polls.

Having known Newt since I was 19, serving as a youthful debate advisor in 1980, a lawyer in recount elections, his campa ...

Updated: Thu Nov 17, 2011

Cain, Romney, Gingrich in a Three Way Dead Heat for GOP Nomination for 11/10/2011

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ATLANTA — A new Poll Position national survey taken right after Herman Cain's press conference to deny sexual harassment charges shows Cain still clinging to a lead, but with Newt Gingrich charging towards the top, statistically tied with Mitt Romney and within points of Cain.

Sometimes the liberal elite media can turn entrepreneurial. That's the case with former longtime CNN pres ...

Updated: Thu Nov 10, 2011

How to Handle the "Occupiers": America's New Great Mayor for 11/03/2011

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ATLANTA — Kasim Reed is a Democrat. He supports President Obama. He's no candidate for converting to the GOP. But whether one is a Republican or Democrat, they should be following the career of this young and vibrant man who is teaching the rest of America how to handle a crisis.

Like mayors in many other cities, Mayor Reed of Atlanta was confronted with hundreds of protestors who ...

Updated: Thu Nov 03, 2011

Wanna Know a Secret? When "Melrose Place" Meets Politics for 10/20/2011

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

This is too juicy not to share. It's a little gossipy and involved, but it stars three presidential candidates, so it's topical stuff.

It all goes back to 1990. Johnny Isakson, now a U.S. senator from Georgia, was then running for governor of the Peach State. I was running for lieutenant governor at age 29. Credit (or blame) Newt Gingrich for my candidacy. He'd been my friend and mentor ...

Updated: Thu Oct 20, 2011

American Meltdown: Two Revolts, Entirely Different Revolutionaries for 10/13/2011

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

America is undergoing a revolution. Two revolutions, to be exact. One is made up of hardworking families who believe that what matters — or should matter — are their good efforts, minimal government intrusion in their lives, and a fair but free enterprise system that incentivizes small businesses and doesn't countermand that incentive by imposing a burdensome tax liability.

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Updated: Thu Oct 13, 2011

Georgia Guys Are Ganging Up on GOP Presidential Candidates for 10/06/2011

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Make no mistake about it. Both Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich know exactly what they are doing. They are, collectively — with Cain's significant increase in the polls and Gingrich's slow but steady rise — working to ensure that a conservative agenda, even a somewhat rebellious agenda, is in place regardless of who is the nominee of the GOP.

Cain is a brilliant businessman. Tru ...

Updated: Thu Oct 06, 2011

Bill Clinton Takes Obama Gently to the Woodshed and Gives Him a Spanking for 09/22/2011

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

If anyone ever believed that the more conservative Bill Clinton really thought the more liberal Barack Obama was prepared to be president in 2008, let them wonder no longer.

Clinton might seem to be in a tight spot, given that his wife works for Obama. But in an interview conducted by Newsmax's CEO, Christopher Ruddy, the former president made it clear that now is neither the time to be ...

Updated: Thu Sep 22, 2011

Pundits Push Myth of Tea Party-Republican Rivalry for 09/15/2011

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Let's get this straight once and for all: The vast — and I mean vast — majority of those who identify themselves as Republican voters, or as independents who likely will vote in Republican primaries in 2012, has no problems with the tenets and beliefs of the tea party movement.

It's a laugh-out-loud moment when national political pundits continue to have weighty discussions ...

Updated: Thu Sep 15, 2011

See Jake Run for 09/08/2011

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Finally the candy-pants White House press corps has come to its senses. Or at least a few members of that pro-Obama, softball-tossing group of so-called journalists have. Chief among them, and from traditional media, is ABC's Jake Tapper.

I was amazed in early August when Tapper challenged the boyish-looking and smug presidential press secretary Jay Carney (who, ironically, is married t ...

Updated: Thu Sep 08, 2011

We Get Obama Instead of Jerry Lewis for 09/01/2011

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

This time of year is traditionally about the start of school, the start of football and the end of summer. Labor Day is emblematic of the season, and with Labor Day comes the annual "Jerry Lewis Telethon" to raise money for muscular dystrophy research and treatment.

I need to confess at the outset that Jerry Lewis' comedy has brought me not much more than an occasional wry smi ...

Updated: Thu Sep 01, 2011