Imagine me putting on my best Andy Rooney impersonation (if I had one).

Why is it that Newt Gingrich can run around miseducating people with his cockamamie theories of history, governance, and economics? He can brag about being an historian and professor of history who wouldn’t know an historical fact if he fell over one? Given this, the people of his party just love him. If it weren’t for his corruption and other peccadilloes, he might be running away with the race for nomination as Republican candidate for President.

At the same time, Elizabeth Warren’s opposition gets away with casting being a Harvard Professor who actually knows about the financial problems of this country as being something to apologize for. Whereas Gingrich has been wrong about almost every policy proposal he has ever put forth, Elizabeth Warren correctly predicted the economic collapse and the nature that it would take at least 5 years before it happened.

Do the Republicans know something about defending their position despite attacks from the opposition that Democrats never seem to learn?