“I said, “are the closest” to being like Churchill.”
If you consider either as even being in the same ballpark as Winnie, I would suggest that you’re severly misinformed.
Same ballpark, same county, same continent, same planet--
However far from Churchill they are,
Only says how much further away are their detractors.
P.S. Buchannan falls into the category of political animal I like to call a “Wraparound Conservative” in that he’s gone so far to the right that he’s beginning to sound like a leftist.
While I agree with Pat on the issue of immigration, and his position that American corporate leaders are selling their country out for personal profit, I find him otherwise severly out of touch on most other issues. Like in orbit out-of-touch.
In the case of Ron Paul, if the republican debates were any indication of his intellectual and political positions, I’d just as soon defiantly walk to the gallows while I can still remember that being an American once meant something.
Churchillian virtue is to be found in neither; one is flack for an increasingly shrill extremist fringe within the Republican party, and the other probably has French ancestry. Churchill had the virtue of being the one individual near the levers of power who understood the true nature of his enemies and did not flinch from the difficult course of fighting back.