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- Gingrich's gotcha demeanor in this clip suggests he thinks he's saying something profound here. In a way, he is. This exchange is an X-ray of the dry rot that's weakened the Republican Party. "What I said is also a fact," Gingrich continues, as if patiently explaining something obvious to a child. "The current view is that liberals have a whole set of statistics that theoretically might be right, but it's not where human beings are." Confronted with the fact that the crime statistics cited come from the FBI — hardly a "liberal" organization — Gingrich makes it clear that he doesn't care. "No, but what I said is equally true. People feel more threatened." Is it possible that these people feel more threatened because their political leaders keep feeding them fear instead of facts? Perhaps. To Gingrich, it doesn't matter. "As a political candidate, I'll go with how people feel, and I'll let you go with the theoreticians."