Maybe it’s the Ph.D., his extensive bibliography or his constant appearances on Fox News, but Newt Gingrich has held on to his reputation as the ‘ideas man’ of the Republican Party for too long… It’s certainly not evident to us. Gingrich has one of the loosest, least rigorous, most pretentious minds in politics. He loves ideas, he’s just no good at them; and the idea of ideas is not enough to make a man a serious intellectual. The bloopers in his works of history — fiction and nonfiction, and nonfiction that turns out to be fiction — are legendary.
— The New Republic puts Newt Gingrich at the top of its list of over-rated political thinkers.
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