Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column asserts that conservative Republican Newt Gingrich, former House speaker with talent for overreaching, is more unbridled than ever; notes that Gingrigh fancies himself as historian and visionary, yet rather than using his critical faculties to resist his party's lunacy, he has embraced it shamelessly; scores Gingrich for endorsing Dinesh D'Souza's inflammatory Forbes essay on Barack Obama and public rage toward his presidency
Published on September 14, 2010 21:00