mr. coffee room: “the Gra, according to many gedolim, was on the level of rishonim. a certain gadol said he was on the Rashba’s level of learning, so thats not a ra’aya at all”
As I heard, the story was that the brisker said to his father that he heard that the gra was like the ramban, to what the father replied: chalile!!! maybe like the rashbe! (obviously these ppl – unlike us – appreciated the diference)