Politico:

“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,” Gingrich said Wednesday during a speech at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, the local television station KY3 reported…. “Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last year,” Gingrich said. “If you’re going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama’s first two, three months.”

Mind you, Obama’s “mistake” was passing a stimulus package intended to save the country from an impending depression. Gingrich is as bad, if not worse, than the rest of the Republicans. He is so mired in his own ideological view of the world that facts don’t phase him. He probably agrees with the rest of his party, with his ideological leader Rush Limbaugh, with Limbaugh’s acolyte Eric Cantor, with John McCain’s economic adviser Phil Gramm, that anyone concerned about the economy is just overreacting.

They simply have no new ideas. The reason they talk about Ronald Reagan so much is that the Republican party never moved beyond the 1980s. They have no notion of what it is to be an American in 2009. Nor, seemingly, do they care.