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Newt Gingrich's first week as an official 2012 presidential candidate has skated past horrible and become impressive. Who could have guessed it would be Gingrich's campaign launch that would be the big flopper given the field of failed, fringe and untested GOP candidates he has joined. Gingrich Spokesman Rick Tyler evidently decided against pretending he wasn't aboard a ship sailing rudderless into bizzaro-land and sent out a statement on the events of the week that fittingly strikes the paranoid machine-gun meltdown style adopted by America's favorite celebrity disaster, Charlie Sheen.
In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured.
With President Barack Obama Wednesday saying the GOP takeover of the U.S. House officially puts a fork in comprehensive climate change legislation, an interview...