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JI7

(89,247 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:57 AM Feb 2012

Gingrich Looking Churchillian

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA (consider the source below)

<Leadership: A great debater. Politically polarizing. Prone to error, but also prone to spectacular success. Steeped in history. Politically brilliant. Unorthodox. Audacious.

Churchill, like Gingrich, was a brilliant politician with a powerful sense of the occasion.

Indeed, by Churchill's own admission, "The Conservatives have never liked nor trusted me." The same thing can be said of Gingrich, who has had a tortured relationship with the GOP's conservative wing, to say the least.

"And yet, when his nation called on him to lead in 1940, Churchill was ready — the right man for the right time. With America's government under President Obama moving rapidly to the extreme left, Gingrich too might be the right man for the right time.

“Both Churchill and Gingrich, in different ways, are men of letters and ideas. Avid writers, each has a deep sense of how current events fit into history.>



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Gingrich Looking Churchillian (Original Post) JI7 Feb 2012 OP
"Newt Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like." rocktivity Feb 2012 #1
. denbot Feb 2012 #2
More like a Chinchilla Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2012 #3
Smoking cigars, drunk, and wearing pricey hats?? Loudmxr Feb 2012 #4
here is another one JI7 Feb 2012 #5
I don't think he belongs in the same class Owlet Feb 2012 #6
Warleaders and great statemen, flawed Confusious Feb 2012 #7

rocktivity

(44,576 posts)
1. "Newt Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like."
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:01 AM
Feb 2012

-- Paul Krugman (with help from Elizabeth Bowen)


rockivity

Loudmxr

(1,405 posts)
4. Smoking cigars, drunk, and wearing pricey hats??
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:05 AM
Feb 2012

Besides he has more hair than Churchill.

Nah don't see it.

Owlet

(1,248 posts)
6. I don't think he belongs in the same class
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 07:47 AM
Feb 2012

Fifty years from now no one will remember Newt except for students or arcane political trivia. The other three guys changed history: New merely rewrites and revises it.

Confusious

(8,317 posts)
7. Warleaders and great statemen, flawed
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 09:01 PM
Feb 2012

Newt? Not even good enough to wipe the asses of the other three.

Actually, I'm even slightly embarrassed to think that someone would even put newt in the same category as the other three.
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