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Senior Republican members of the House, however, are worried that GOPAC may be Gingrich's Achilles' heel. Said one: "He is brilliant and has an enormous future if he does not outsmart himself. He's got to be more sensitive to these fund-raising things." Gingrich does not deny giving money to House Republican challengers ($35,000 so far this election cycle, with the intention of maxing out at $100,000), and he has pressured safe-seat incumbents to do so as well. However, he points out that the funds come from his own war chest, which...
...will Gingrich take greater scrutiny of his private life? A normally expansive man, his verbal pace slows to a crawl when describing details of his first marriage and its dissolution. (He has since remarried.) "I don't talk about it much," he told TIME. "I met my ex-wife when she was my high school math teacher . . . at Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia." Married after his freshman year at Emory University, he says what he calls the "random accident" of their getting together "seemed to make sense at the time. I can't look back badly, from the standpoint...
That is not the image Gingrich puts on public display. Instead he focuses on a vision of "cybernetic democracy" and keeps his eyes on the bigger prize he could garner after November. With Congress expected to adjourn at week's end, Democrats now outnumber Republicans by a 256-178 majority. Things almost certainly will be different come January. Predicts confident Illinois Republican Henry Hyde: "The Democrats are in for one hell of a ride. Having been the dominant power for 40 years, they've grown complacent and arrogant. They're going to chafe and be irritated to the point...
When asked, Gingrich is suitably and predictably coy about his future. A recent Los Angeles Times public opinion survey found that 65% of Americans had "never heard of" Newt Gingrich. Still, the words should be mouthed: "President Gingrich?" And is that the sound of more Democrats sputtering...
This excitement was palpable last Tuesday afternoon on the sun-drenched steps of the Capitol's west front, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich assembled more than 300 Republican candidates for Congress and predicted they would soon be running the place. Posing for scores of TV cameras from stations around the country, each candidate signed a Gingrich-inspired and pollster- tested "Contract with America," intended to mark Republicans as "outsiders" itching to clean up Washington. (On the advice of pollster Frank Luntz, the word "Republican" appeared nowhere in the background of the TV shot. "The party name should...