@jonnythan Said 
https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289159/gingrich-and-reagan-elliott-abrams
In 1986: "Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing." Why? This was due partly to “his administration’s weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail”; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which “have no strategies to defeat the empire.” But of course “the burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.” Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were “pathetically incompetent" ....
Such was Gingrich’s faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.”
And what does Newt say today?
"I helped Reagan create millions of jobs while he was president." And after modestly acknowledging his own less significant role than Reagan's, added, "We helped defeat the Soviet empire."
In a similar fashion Newt used to cheat on his wives, but now he has promised he’ll be faithful to his wife. I think that was in a letter to a conservative Iowa group. (Of course if either of his 1st 2 weddings used a "traditional" wedding vow, he would have promised to be faithful in those instances.)
Newt also criticized Clinton for having an affair with a staffer, but Newt had an affair with one of his staffers.
Jan 26, 2012 @ 13:47:15
