RICHARD NIXON: DUMBEST REPUBLICAN EVER?

RICHARD NIXON: DUMBEST REPUBLICAN EVER?

AUSTIN, Texas (Wireless Flash) -- This may make Richard Nixon roll over in his grave: he's just been declared the world's dumbest Republican. The dubious honor comes from Bill Crawford, author of the new book "Republicans Do the Dumbest Things" (Renaissance). Crawford claims Nixon is guilty of dozens of dumb flubs, like the time he gave Elvis Presley a Drug Enforcement Agency badge even though Elvis was in the midst of his drug addiction problems. Other klutzy Republicans include former president Gerald Ford, who actually locked himself out of the White House and George Bush, who once asked an official in Jordan, "Tell me general, how dead is the Dead Sea?"