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In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. “I worked with [COLOR=#216221 !important][COLOR=#216221 ! important]President [COLOR=#216221 ! important]Reagan[/color][/color][/color] to change things in Washington,” “we helped defeat the Soviet empire,” and “I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress” are typical claims by the former speaker of the House. The claims are misleading at best. As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years — and I was an assistant secretary of state — Mr. Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat Communism. Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan’s policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong. Here is Gingrich: “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the [COLOR=#216221 !important][COLOR=#216221 ! important]Reagan [COLOR=#216221 ! important]administration[/color][/color][/color] has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.”
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