text: Jim Wickre: Chris Christie's Churchillian Speech
  Last night after Chris Christie's keynote address to the 2012 Republican Convention, I turned to my wife and said it was "almost Churchillian" and only later did I read a tweet that Chris Mathews of MSNBC had said something similar. Now, Chris Mathews and I rarely agree on anything but we agreed on that.
  Some folks wanted a "red meat" type of speech but we got a speech by a statesman last night.
  For the United States the summer of 2012 is much like the summer of 1940 in England when it stood alone against the might of Nazi tyranny. France had fallen and Great Britten turned to Churchill who with his rhetoric stirred the common man to rise to the occasion:
  In the summer of 2012 we don't face the threat of an invading army but we face an ever growing government chocking of us of our freedom and turning us into ever growing dependency. Our debt is out of control and we keep barrowing more and more from China, that will never need to invade us, because we will be dependent on them as a debtor is dependent on the good graces of his creditors.
  Just as the English people were dispirited in 1940 so are the American people in 2012! "There is doubt and fear for our future in every corner of our country."