New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Case Against Newt Gingrich

November 17, 2011

Republican voters' esteem for Newt Gingrich has been rising fast. At this rate it might someday equal, though not surpass, his regard for himself. Gingrich is not a person with an ego, observes Steve Chapman. He's an ego with a person. But if there’s one thing that Gingrich is not, Chapman writes, it is presidential material. Hopelessly in love with the sound of his own voice, he exhibits a stern, overbearing self-assurance that gives his pronouncements weight even when he is uttering nonsense.

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