[garjog]

Of course Newt is like Churchill. Bombastic, disliked and not trusted with power by members of his own party — until it became clear that he was the right man for troubled times. He went on to be the “man of the century” for helping to win the war.

More arguments here in National Review:
December 8, 2011
Is Newt Like Churchill?
The two have much in common.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/285198/newt-churchill-steven-f-hayward

[true believer forever]

Of course Newt is like Churchill. Bombastic, disliked and not trusted with power by members of his own party — until it became clear that he was the right man for troubled times. He went on to be the “man of the century” for helping to win the war.

More arguments here in National Review: December 8, 2011 Is Newt Like Churchill? The two have much in common.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/285198/newt-churchill-steven-f-hayward

Thank you for posting that. I was just going to google for it. What is really interesting about that article, besides the obvious history, is how the times drew from churchill what the era needed him to be. There was not a single whitewash of his flaws, and failures, and yet, the sum of the entire article was a flawed man, who once failed mightily, came to the fore and changed the course of a country in the midst of a terrible peril. Sound like 2012 and Newt? I am going to read it again... thanks again.