Not to be outdone by President Obama’s claim earlier this week that he is the fourth-greatest president in the history of the United States — at least in terms of legislative and foreign policy accomplishment in his first two years — Newt Gingrich compared his campaign’s inability to get on the Virginia primary ballot to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Yesterday, Newt Gingrich’s National Campaign Director, Michael Krull, took to facebook tell Newt’s supporters that the campaign’s failure to make it on the Virginia primary ballot was a set-back, not a ‘catastrophe. And that after talking to Newt, they agreed that like America after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Gingrich campaign would recover and “stand victorious” in the end.