Gingrich Has Great Ideas

The Dismal Political Economist Doesn’t Think So

The thing that has always surrounded New Gingrich is that he is a man of ideas.  He has this reputation so much that articles like this in the WaPo abound.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/newt-gingrich-has-ideas-can-he-turn-them-into-presidential-appeal/2011/05/11/AF7rEYqG_story.html?hpid=z1

Now the only problem with this is that nobody ever seems to be able to report on the so-called great ideas that Mr. Gingrich has.  This article cited does not, most articles do not and in fact it is difficult, well really impossible to locate any great ideas associated with Mr. Gingrich.

It is used to be said of Mr. Gingrich that “people who preach family values ought to have them themselves” 

Now it can be said of Mr. Gingrich that “People who are associated in the press with great ideas ought to have them”.