[EternalVigilance]

Is Gingrich Churchill?

No. He's Richard Nixon.

[katiedidit1]

and I would vote for Nixon over Obama.

[katiedidit1]

and I would vote for Nixon over Obama.

[hinckley buzzard]

In a variety of ways Newt is much like Nixon. After Nixon's losses in 1960 and 1962, the Left believed they had vanquished their arch foe. We had communists gloating about "Alger Hiss dancing on the political grave of Richard Nixon." They then left him for dead.

Nixon remained active however, low profile and behind the scenes, and when 1968 came around he won a narrow but definite victory, followed four years later by a huge landslide.

After they drove Newt out of the Congress in 1999, the Left obviously believed they had finished him off as a political force. Ignored him for years.

Newt stayed active however, refused to lay down. He has continued to be the man of ideas and a questioner of the status quo.

Newt has the potential to recapitulate the Nixon performance, and unlike Nixon he knows how to handle the hostile press. But for Watergate Nixon would have been counted a very successful president. Newt has the same opportunity, and is not likely to pull a Watergate.