Newt Gingrich keeps on digging (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Newt Gingrich
says Ronald Reagan is his only intellectual equal in the Republican Party:
"Other than Ronald Reagan, I know of no Republican in my lifetime who's been able to talk like this," Mr. Gingrich told a banquet crowd here, referring to his own policy ideas on energy, brain science and other matters. "That's why I'm still running, because the gap is so huge."
I know Newt was boasting, but when you're trying to offer yourself up as an intellectual giant, you might want to avoid comparing yourself to a guy who
falsely claimed trees were a major source of pollution, who
falsely claimed there was no Russian word for freedom, and who
falsely denied funding death squads with illegal arms sales to Iranians.