Tell me I am wrong
It all boils down to this: I want to know that the people leading me are better people than I am.
I’ve never claimed to be a good person that I am aware of. I am far too judgemental, far too opinionated, and far too passionate to really qualify. I’ve always like GWB, not because I thought he always made the right decision, lord knows I disagree with roughly half of what he has done. But he always struck me as a decent man deep down inside.
I used to listen to Limbaugh every day. Then he pulled the Oxycontin bit and I stopped. Ditto for O’Reilly with the whole sexual harrassment issue who I believe at one point blamed it on his hot-tempered Irish side. It’s not that I neccessarily fault them for being imperfect in their personal lives, I just can’t look up to them the same way when they do such things.
Which is why I have always LOATHED Newt Gingrich. I watched that silly-ass video of him holding hands on a park bench with Nancy Pelosi and I was hard pressed to decide who I disliked more. Gingrich has cheated on at least 2 of his 3 wives, and that’s enough to rule him out in my book. Look, I am not so stupid that I don’t realize that tons of people cheat. But if they are willing to cheat on those they publically stated they would love and hold until death do them part, what makes you think they won’t cheat on you?
Anyway, Ed Morrissey over at Hotair is talking about what a great RNC chair Newt would make. I still don’t get the love affair with Newt. Someone remind me what the Contract With America got us, except a shit load of GOP Congressmen who would let us down by running up the federal budget.
Wondering what y’all think.
PS: Looks like Malkin agrees with me for different reasons.
OK, so who do I want in there?
3 options:
This guy.
This guy.
or This guy.
Now Real Answer:
Mike Pence, Paul Ryan (WI), Michael Steele, random person off the street….
I’m just sick and tired of them always going with the dude who works his way up through the party. Screw that. Party has been driving off a cliff for years, how about picking someone on the outside.
Category: Politics
I’m with you on GWB, TSO. He said something once that has stuck in my head. He didn’t need to be President to be fulfilled, he thought he could do the job. But…if he weren’t elected he could go home and still like who he saw in the mirror.
The guy is much more stand up than others. That said, I don’t really know about Newt. I think he is past helping this Country. Character matters, for sure.
It all boils down to this: I want to know that the people leading me are better people than I am.
Ain’t gonna happen grasshopper.
They may have more experience, they may have different experience, but finally they’re gonna be human (except for Obama).
I’ll dredge up the old joke… How can you tell when a politician is lying?
As it happens you are in a pretty good position to offer a suggestion for the rest of us. Who do YOU see as a good choice for RNC chair?
I was thinking about writing something about this earlier, but got distracted. While I completely appreciate Newt Gingrich for the 1994 Revolution, Newt Gingrich is the wrong person to lead the Republican Party at this point.
Although he has important things to say, he blew any chance at complete credibility when he was boinking his assistant while chasing after Clinton. Yes, I know, the Clinton thing wasn’t about sex, it was about telling the truth – and Gingrich violated the same tenets – and gave Democrats more ammunition to fire at us.
Gingrich is part of the Party’s past, not it’s future. We’re no better than the Democrats if we can’t find new blood to reinvigorate the party and instead draw from our fetid pool of has-beens and never-weres.
I haven’t given a penny to the RNC since 2004 because they won’t step out of their Democrat-like behavior. We need someone Gingrich-like (but not Gingrich) to organize an effective campaign over the next two years to take back America. Someone who’ll accept the fact that a party that keeps it’s promises to America wins elections. Someone with the gumption to make it clear to the rank and file candidates that imitating Democrats doesn’t win elections and attract support.
The Contract With America was sheer brilliance…as brilliant as enacting nearly every tenet of the Contract…and then they never did it again. Even when the Democrats copied that concept in 2006 and took back Congress.
America WANTS to elect Republicans, but Republicans do our level best to prove that we don’t want their votes. Gingrich is an example of that concept. He couldn’t keep his wiener in his pants for a few years and he lost my trust. Sure I can forgive him his transgressions, but that doesn’t mean I have to trust him with the reins of the Party.
We need new leadership and Gingrich ain’t it.
As someone who actually lives in the district that Gingrich represented, I can tell you that he’s pretty much poison here too. While clearly a brilliant thinker in regard to strategy and political theater, he evokes the gag reflex in me any time anyone suggests that he’s the “future” of the party. With that being said, you cannot argue that for all his failings, he had a distinct method of herding the GOP horde into single file. Of late, the party is little more than a rudderless ship, floating from one bad idea to the next…or perhaps the better analogy is that the party has no navigator, a dominant personality that will boldly and unapologetically assert that the conservative approach is the better approach. It’s almost as if the GOP has broken its vows with conservatism…interesting concept.
You guys are right. A few days ago I sort of perked up when I heard Newt might become active again, so to speak, because I was feeling so desconsolate, realizing how rudderless our party has become and figured he could step up and at least remind everybody what it means to be GOP. God knows we don’t seem to have a lot of inspiring leadership these days.
But then I started remembering all the problems Newt had, and still has, and it gave me pause. And yes, character matters, and beyond that he did do some odd flipflopping and made a few too many sympathetic Greenspeak noises. And more than that, the GOP is going to have to look fresh to win back believers.
I completely agree about GWB- I always felt he was honest and sincere in his motivations, which obviously isn’t the entire answer but it’s a vital quality for our leaders to have. I’m hoping we can find someone equally sincere, in addition to having the fullest grasp possible on what we need to do, to lead the GOP- and to run for POTUS in four years, for that matter.
But WHO?
Moi.
TSO: I agree, Skye for RNC Chair! Certainly a better idea than packing the entire party in a Delorean, getting it up to 88 mph and going back to 1994. That flux capacitor has sailed my friends.
Jonn said “Gingrich is part of the Party’s past, not it’s future.”
That’s it in a nutshell.
…if they are willing to cheat on those they publically stated they would love and hold until death do them part, what makes you think they won’t cheat on you?
Damn skippy, Mr. Hell.
I do very much like the first video guy; we could sure use 100 million more like him. Pence, Ryan, and Steele all would make principled choices.
Maybe instead of people better than us, merely a smart person able to keep their eyes on the ball for a change would do.
I’m sorry, but George W. has been a disaster for some time now in that regard. Am I the only one who feels like we currently don’t even have a president?
I think I should be the man for the job. Let’s face it, you could do worse… and for the most part, we always have.