Lunar Gingrich

Earth to Newt. Come in, Newt.

Newt was riding high the moment he announced his candidacy in 2011. Within weeks, he crashed and burned with a remark that strayed from the Republican orthodoxy. The phoenix reappeared in early 2012, winning the South Carolina primary. He crashed and burned a second time a few weeks later, trying to appeal to voters in Florida's Space Coast that he would be an ideal choice for the White House.