I couldn't agree with you more. Newt is the Statesman America needs now, and the electorate is falling on their faces voting for shallow flim-flam artists.
The Brits rejected Churchill as well, didn’t they, until it was almost too late for them.
A Churchillian-like figure rarely comes along.
A lot of people can’t deal with one when he or she does appear. They would rather not have powerful figures telling them the way it really is and offer to lead them to a better place.
They instead nibble around the edges and go off on tangents with people who couldn’t think or articulate or lead their way out of a paper bag, but have some little hook that they hook the people with.
Jimmy Carter was one.
Barack Obama is another.
I could go on, but why needlessly insult people who can’t see what’s in front of their faces.
I read on another thread that Newt claimed that people don’t understand him. It was a headline from the national journal, no love lost for Newt there, but is being used to bash him here.
All he said was, the Republicans need to return to big ideas for America, and that he feels frustration that that’s no longer what the Republican party stands for and what he is trying to bring back.
It wasn’t woe is me, it wasn’t about him, it was about our country and what he can do to bring it back, but he is being constrained by almost every force there is out there to use, which we know is the truth.