Newt Gingrich - "The Conservative Intellectual" - is really the Professor Irwin Corey of the right wing.
If you don't know about Corey, check him out on YouTube. Even now in his middle 90's Corey still performs an incredible act where he makes double talk that sounds like an intellectual argument.
The diff between Corey and Newt is that Corey's audience roars with laughter while Newt's audience listens reverentially to his mumbo jumbo, and blames themselves for not understanding what the hell he's talking about. They just believe his ridiculous conclusions on account 'a he sounds smart.
And now they're REALLY confused because he told them sumpin' about right wing social engineering - whatever the hell 'social engineering' is - and now he's taken it back.
Life can be so confusing when you let clowns do their thinking for you.