Gingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln

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from ThinkProgress:



Gingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.»

In an interview with GQ magazine yesterday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich compared Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) effort to rally support around his indefinite commitment to staying in Iraq to “what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War“:

QUESTION: How does your background in history influence your political ideas?

GINGRICH: If you think about the current situation, it helps to remember Harry Truman running in 1948, or even Sarkozy in France. Sarkozy distanced himself from Chirac without being hostile. That’s what McCain has to do with Bush. And what McCain is trying to achieve by explaining the dangers of the world to the public is like what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War.

QUESTION: McCain doesn’t exactly have Lincoln’s rhetorical skills.

GINGRICH: In style he’s closer to Truman, who did not have the rhetorical skills, but had passion.

Gingrich, along with a long list of conservatives, have long sought to cast President Bush as Lincoln-like. Now, with Bush heading out of office, they are trying to do the same with McCain.

[onehandle]

1. They were both born in the same century.

That's about it.

[glowing]

2. The only thing they have in common is the age thing. Unfortunately, one is

still around to a lot of damage to the US.. and one tried hard to un-do damages.

[DB1]

3. Sometimes things he says are so stupid I don't think the righties even listen.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Well, at the rate we are fighting each other (Repigs vs. Dems), he may be right.

I swear, if the two factions were in separate parts of the country, we'd have another Civil War. We just can't figure out where to draw the line.

[Parche]

5. MCCain Was Born Before Lincoln Though

:rofl:

:hi:

[Jack Rabbit]

6. That brings a picture to my mind . . .

. . . but it's not a very good one.