The Trouble with Newt - Gingrich Is Trying to Find His Footing - and Pay His Ethics Bills. but Does His Wife Have Other Ideas?

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Gingrich is trying to find his footing--and pay his ethics bills. But does his wife have other ideas?

IN JOURNALS OF OPINion, covering Newt Gingrich has become a kind of death watch. Last month a widely read cover story in The New Republic was rifled "The Madness of King Newt." Then the conservative Weekly Standard--once pro-Newt--wondered whether Gingrich was in "meltdown." The lead article-by a fellow GOP congressman, Peter King--called the speaker "political road kill." Gingrich's trip to China was intended to position the speaker as a statesman-- but he was attacked by conservatives when his initial itinerary omitted a stop in Taiwan, the right's favorite bastion of …