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Originally posted to The Jed Report on Fri Mar 16, 2012
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.
