Newt: Ronald Reagan is as Dangerous as Neville Chamberlain

There are many reasons why Newt Gingrich remains a preposterous candidate for the Republican party’s presidential nomination. Among them the fact that just about anyone who has ever had dealings with him – including a majority of his wives – hate him. Here’s Elliott Abrams dredging up some gems settling some scores from the 1980s back in the days when Newt thought Ronald Reagan a dangerous pinko-namby-pamby:

The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986. Here is Gingrich: “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.”