Cafferty and Gingrich give the GOP a 1...2...knockout
its 5:30pm so I am taking a break from work and checking headlines
Looks like Cafferty and Gingrich are both addressing the sad times of the GOP and throwing Bush and the GOP Congress / Administration under the bus, the later to try and distance himself for future personal political gain.
Cafferty is kind of a old horses ass, but the comment I found most interesting was:
The country had had a bellyful of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the messengers of darkness in Washington who had sold out the principles of the Republican Party in favor of huge deficits, a doubling of the national debt, and a growing intrusion of the federal government into people's private lives.
For all the talk of small government / personal Constitutional rights, etc, the last in that list caught my eye, and I think really shows how far off course the GOP went in the past 8 or so years with the Patriot Act...especially since I always hear the Democrats being the party that always wants to getting their hands in other peoples business.
I wonder if Gingrich will regret making some of these comments if he tries running for president in 2012, considering the GOP is going to be smaller, if not split between the extremely religious and libertarians desperate for political viability. He will need all the votes he can get. If the GOP keeps going too far to the right the 2 branches of the GOP may both be relegated to 3rd party status (not really, but neither will be competing with the Democratic Party):
....the Republican Party right now is in the shadow of the Bush administration. We're in the last stage of digesting the tummy ache of having bad Congressional leadership; the worst Treasury Secretary in history; a bad economy. The Republican Party got fired for good reason; it deserved it.
ouch, Henry Paulson...you and your political party just got the Chris Brown treatment from a fellow pudgy, less-rich-than-a-few-months-ago white guy. The GOP has several more months/year of infighting, redefining, and remarketing to go.
Looks like Cafferty and Gingrich are both addressing the sad times of the GOP and throwing Bush and the GOP Congress / Administration under the bus, the later to try and distance himself for future personal political gain.
Cafferty is kind of a old horses ass, but the comment I found most interesting was:
The country had had a bellyful of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the messengers of darkness in Washington who had sold out the principles of the Republican Party in favor of huge deficits, a doubling of the national debt, and a growing intrusion of the federal government into people's private lives.
For all the talk of small government / personal Constitutional rights, etc, the last in that list caught my eye, and I think really shows how far off course the GOP went in the past 8 or so years with the Patriot Act...especially since I always hear the Democrats being the party that always wants to getting their hands in other peoples business.
I wonder if Gingrich will regret making some of these comments if he tries running for president in 2012, considering the GOP is going to be smaller, if not split between the extremely religious and libertarians desperate for political viability. He will need all the votes he can get. If the GOP keeps going too far to the right the 2 branches of the GOP may both be relegated to 3rd party status (not really, but neither will be competing with the Democratic Party):
....the Republican Party right now is in the shadow of the Bush administration. We're in the last stage of digesting the tummy ache of having bad Congressional leadership; the worst Treasury Secretary in history; a bad economy. The Republican Party got fired for good reason; it deserved it.
ouch, Henry Paulson...you and your political party just got the Chris Brown treatment from a fellow pudgy, less-rich-than-a-few-months-ago white guy. The GOP has several more months/year of infighting, redefining, and remarketing to go.