Molly Ball took stock last week:
Recently, Gingrich told a Delaware Tea Party group that he felt [Fox] had exhibited a bias against him, accusing it of "distortion"; the network fired back with a biting statement: "He's still bitter over the termination of his contributor contract." It seems safe to say that bridge, for Gingrich, has been burned. The policy and consulting enterprise Gingrich helmed is similarly on the rocks. American Solutions for Winning the Future, his major nonprofit, shut down last August, and the Gingrich Group, his for-profit advocacy shop, filed for bankruptcy in Georgia earlier this month. Together, the two entities had grossed more than $100 million over the course of a decade, according to Bloomberg. Now, thanks to Gingrich's quest for the presidency, they are defunct.
Philip Klein piles on:
Had Gingrich's campaign actually lived up to his branding of it as being solutions oriented, it might have served some benefit, even if it came as a personal cost. But Gingrich's campaign for president was largely an embarrassment to himself and to conservatives. Early on, he attacked Rep. Paul Ryan's entitlement reforms as "right-wing social engineering" and as he became desperate to make gains against Mitt Romney, he attacked free market capitalism. Given his penchant for saying outlandish and unexpected things, I expect to see him reemerge as a media figure. But I hope my fellow conservatives don't take him seriously once he's no longer useful as a vehicle for stopping (or slowing) Romney.
(Photo: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich waves to the crowd prior to throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game between Gardner-Webb University and North Carolina A&T State University while campaigning on April 25, 2012, in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. According to reports, Gingrich told Mitt Romney that he will bow out of the race and endorse him. By John W. Adkisson/Getty Images)
The Dish 