From, “The Gusts of Gingrich,” by Frank Bruni, 1/23/12, The New York Times:
His greater liabilities were his wildly mixed messages, gross overstatements and insistence on inserting himself — like some mouthy Gump doppelgänger with a doctorate — into every key moment of the late 20th century. Gingrich was supposed to bloviate his way into oblivion.
Instead he bloviated his way to a 12-point victory in South Carolina and a credible shot at the Republican nomination. Grandiosity, it turns out, is good.
Doppelganger: someone who looks like someone else; A ghost that looks like a living person
Bloviate: To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner
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