Mr Gingrich asked for donations in "Newt gallons" (apparently one Newt gallon is $2.50).
The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had 16,251 votes or 13.3% of all Republican votes.
No matter the barbs, including Santorum's personal attack on the former House speaker, whom he previously said he might choose as a running mate, it seemed no one could draw blood from Newt.
Then, lightning struck, and his fighting spirit and verbal acuity brewed into the perfect storm, providing voters with a glimpse of what Newt might bring to the ring in a general election match against President Obama.
While it is uncommon for divorced men to send flowers to an ex-wife, Newt owes the former Mrs Gingrich a big "thank you" after her strategically-timed interview with ABC, intended to ruin his candidacy, backfired.
Newt Gingrich (whose wife Callista said she was "giving up opinions" for Lent) blamed "the media" for exploiting the story and said there were far more important issues – Barack Obama's "war on religion", for example.
If he senses any candidate (such as Newt Gingrich) might be a serious challenge, Romney can drown out his opponent with television advertising and establishment endorsements (as Elliott Abrams describes in the National Review).
Gingrich claimed that his actions stemmed from "how passionately I felt about this country" and, truly, nothing says "patriotism" more clearly than taking your pants off and banging a congressional aide – as long as you're Newt Gingrich, of course.
IN THE run-up to the 1994 midterm elections Newt Gingrich released his "Contract with America", a prospectus of what Republicans would do if they won the House.
In New Hampshire, he faces at least four major candidates: Santorum, Ron Paul, who came a close third in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich, who trailed in fourth place and has an intense dislike of Romney, and Jon Huntsman, who did not compete in Iowa.
