Secret meeting between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich still largely a secret

Indeed. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney today confirmed reports that he and Newt Gingrich had secretly met in Louisiana on Saturday, according to ABC News.

However details about the meeting remain scarce and both candidates have denied that any bargain was struck.

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Gingrich told The Washington Times yesterday that he had met with Romney but denied that had been offered a position in any future Romney Cabinet or an offer to have Romney donors pay his $1 million campaign debt in exchange for dropping out of the race.

Today’s results from the Gallup tracking poll of the GOP nominating contest has Gingrich scoring 10 percent, below even Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

Gingrich’s campaign is essentially on life-support, cutting back on both staff and travel in a bid to compete in a theoretical brokered nominating convention in August. Sheldon Adelson, Gingrich’s primary financial backer, said yesterday that the candidate was “at the end of his line,” according to The Hill.

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ABC quoted Romney as discussing the matter in a radio interview with conservative commentator Sean Hannity.

“We’re pretty much in regular communication between the different campaigns and I said hello to Newt,” Romney was quoted as saying.

“We do meet from time to time and I’m sure that the Speaker meets with Rick Santorum as well but we don’t go off and report the discussions,” Romney continued. “But they are friendly and we discuss the issues, we discuss the way forward but we don’t reveal our secret campaign strategies.”