The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I've often said that I think Newt Gingrich is "special," but nowhere was that more apparent than last week, when he posted a blog/article/whatever one wants to call it, entitled, "What Would Reagan Do?" He started his piece with this paragraph: "Instead of criticizing President Barack Obama's lack of an effective national security policy as the terrorist threat of the Islamic State grows in Syria and Iraq, it might be helpful to imagine the speech President Ronald Reagan would have given in response to the videotaped beheading of James Foley." Yes, and it might be helpful to ask: Santa Claus what he thinks about gay marriage rights, the Easter Bunny on what he/she/it feels about taxes, the Tooth Fairy what she thinks about abortion, and Newt's invisible friend Wife #4 why she loves Newt. Gingrich then went on to write: "There are many things a great power can do if it has leadership. This fictional speech is an effort to descri...