OPINION
Newt Gingrich's sad end to presidential run
March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
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(The New Republic) "At an age when most young men are focused on playing sports and meeting girls, Newt was fantasizing about saving the world."
--Steven M. Gillon, "The Pact", 2008
Despite Newt Gingrich's best efforts, it looks like the world is going to have to save itself. A humiliating third-place finish in Saturday's Louisiana primary should have extinguished the last embers of Gingrich's wildfire dream of a second-ballot victory at the GOP Convention. Any Newtonian fantasy about stopping Mitt Romney in Tampa requires the former House speaker to continue to accumulate convention delegates. But Gingrich -- after winning a
--Steven M. Gillon, "The Pact", 2008
Despite Newt Gingrich's best efforts, it looks like the world is going to have to save itself. A humiliating third-place finish in Saturday's Louisiana primary should have extinguished the last embers of Gingrich's wildfire dream of a second-ballot victory at the GOP Convention. Any Newtonian fantasy about stopping Mitt Romney in Tampa requires the former House speaker to continue to accumulate convention delegates. But Gingrich -- after winning a
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