Chris Wallace on his interview with the conservative Tom Coburn. Coburn will not support Newt based on his 4 year experience with Newt as SOH.
i.e. Newt was too brusque, too bossy...could not bring the country together (oh no - like GWB tried to do?). Newt has no support from the GOP Congress. It was not the brilliant Clintons who destroyed Newt - it was intra-party jealousy.
Sounds a lot like Churchill and his party in the UK after he won a damn war!!!
Deja Vu!
Although Churchill’s role in World War II had generated him much support from the British population, he had many opponents. He also expressed contempt for a number of popular ideas, in particular creating a system of national public health care and improving public education. Partly as a result of this Churchill was defeated in the 1945 election by Clement Attlee and the Labour Party.[1] There are different possibilities as to why he lost this election; it could be that the voters thought that the man who had led them so well in war was not the man to lead them in peace, or that the election result was not a reaction against Churchill personally, but against the Conservative Party’s record in the 1930s under Baldwin and Chamberlain. Also, the proposed policies of the Labour Party with its reforms such as introducing the NHS may have been thought a better party. During the opening broadcast of the election campaign, Churchill astonished many of his admirers by warning that a Labour government would introduce into Britain “some form of Gestapo, no doubt humanely administered in the first instance”.[2] Churchill had been genuinely worried during the war by the inroads of state bureaucracy into civil liberty, and was clearly influenced by Friedrich Hayek’s anti-totalitarian tract, The Road to Serfdom (1944).
It wasn't jealousy, it was embarrassment. The man was dirty and thats why it was so easy for the Clintons to roll him. If he had been an ethical and moral man he would have been battered but not destroyed. Instead, who would stand by a man who was having an affair with a staffer while pointing a finger at Clinton? Remember, he was fined $300,000 by a majority republican eithics committee.