U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is silhouetted against the U.S. flag during his speech at a Space Coast meeting in Cocoa, Fla., Tuesday. Gingrich, cranking up the campaign rhetoric, mocked White House rival Mitt Romney’s plan for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as a “fantasy” on Wednesday and assailed President Barack Obama’s tax ideas as “stupid.”
