“Alex Pappas” on The Daily Caller

DOVER, N.H. — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich may have just found the star of an attack advertisement against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (more)

Gentry Collins says the Republican National Committee needs another Lee Atwater, Haley Barbour, Ed Gillespie or Ken Mehlman to run the national political organization. (more)

Tea Party activists often say the media ignored them when the movement burst onto the political scene in 2009. (more)

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton — who says he’s considering a run for president in 2012 as a Republican — is backing Ann Wagner for chairman of the Republican National Committee. (more)

Though he refuses to say definitively that he plans to run for president in 2012, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour doesn’t think his background as a lobbyist and southerner would pose problems if he were to seek the GOP nomination. (more)

1.) Joe Biden doesn’t know how to feel about Wikileaks, chooses to feel everything — As the human face of the Obama Administration–we will never forget his honesty during the great swine flue crisis of 2010–Vice Pres. Joe Biden can be expected to accidentally tell something resembling the truth whenever he appears alone in public. Occasionally, Biden feels torn apart by his dual roles as National Billy the Largemouth Bass (singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”) and his desire to be treated like a grownup human being. Wikileaks has only exacerbated his angst. Last Thursday, Biden told Andrea Mitchell on the air that “leaked cables created no substantive damage — only embarrassment,” and “nothing that I’m aware of that goes to the essence of the relationship that would allow another nation to say: ‘They lied to me, we don’t trust them, they really are not dealing fairly with us.’” A day later, Biden taped an interview with David Gregory for Meet the Press in which he told the MSNBC host, “[Assange] has made it more difficult for us to conduct our business with our allies and our friends,” and “In my meetings — you know I meet with most of these world leaders — there is a desire to meet with me alone, rather than have staff in the room: It makes things more cumbersome — so it has done damage.” Can you now show us on the doll where Hillary Clinton touched you, Joe? You are not going to get in trouble! (more)

Former Godfathers Pizza chief executive Herman Cain says he’s definitely forming an exploratory committee — likely within the next several weeks — to test the waters for a possible Republican presidential run in 2012. (more)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made it clear: She doesn’t support the “lousy” tax deal between President Obama and Republicans. (more)

Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, says he supports Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called the suspected leaker of the most recent damaging documents a “hero” and a “patriot.” (more)

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will address the newly formed House Tea Party Caucus. (more)

Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman says he still stands by his promise not to challenge Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for re-election. (more)

Congressman-elect Allen West says he never suggested on a radio show earlier this month that the government should ‘censor’ media organizations for publishing the Wikileaks documents. (more)

A spokesman for the Heritage Foundation told The Daily Caller that a car waiting to transport the president of the think-tank was totaled last week in Washington when a thief stole the Cadillac and crashed it while being chased. (more)

MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe made fun of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for reading author C.S. Lewis for “divine inspiration,” despite the fact that the acclaimed British academic and creator of childrens’ books was also a noted writer of works on Christianity. (more)

Marco Rubio hasn’t even been sworn in yet as Florida’s next U.S. Senator, but one Texan who just launched “DraftMarcoRubio.com” wants the Republican to challenge President Obama in 2012. (more)

The Donald thinks Sarah Palin is one classy lady. (more)

The list of potential candidates to take over the Republican National Committee continues to narrow, as Connecticut GOP chairman Chris Healy now says he will not run. (more)

Christine O’Donnell says she wants to start a political action committee and is tentatively calling it Christine PAC. (more)

Since November’s elections, those behind the Tea Party Express effort have largely been silent. (more)

Jim Traficant may not have resurrected his political career with his long-shot independent bid for the U.S. House this year, but the former Ohio congressman and convicted felon does have something new to brag about. (more)