Energized by debt fight, a battered Gingrich pushes on

◼ If there is any set of circumstances in which Gingrich could regain at least some momentum, it's the debt-limit fight currently going on in Washington. It's on everyone's mind at the town hall. "We're at a point now where I'm hard-line," says Charles, from Charleston. "No increase in the debt limit, period. If you took a show of hands, it's likely nearly everyone would agree with him. - Byron York/Washington Examiner

There are a zillion reasons Gingrich almost certainly won't win the Republican nomination. But there are also reasons people here take him seriously. They remember him as the man who engineered the historic Republican victories of 1994, and in him they see a House leader going toe-to-toe with a Democratic president. That's what they want to see again, and it's enough to keep Gingrich going, at least for a while.