Its kind of like the NFL... you have players that have been great for years... but thats just it... been great for years.
There comes a time when you trade a star and get a rookie for the next generation.
Personally I started this whole thread as a neutral discussion.
Now I will express my opinion...anyone who stays in DC for 20 plus years is getting over the hill.
I think if anyone tainted DeLay, it was DeLay. Screw that prosecutor. Who gives a damn about him. The left does dislike DeLay and there is no BS about that. Because he engenders so much hate against him it makes him ineffective. He's already lost his position of leader. That no nonsense bloodletting style of knocking heads cuts both ways.
That didn't happen because everyone else is a RINO. Its because he shot himself in the foot.
While he did have an illustrious carreer thats great. I admire it. If it goes on another 2 years or 10 years thats ok.
Still though, from the sounds of it DeLay is making himself out to be the king. Kind of like Terrel Owens.
Talking to people who post things like DeLay is the best at everything kind of thing...I don't get a good taste about that. What about those thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that work in their districts to get things done? If the DeLay camp doesn't start to recognize then they need to retire.
We will have to see what DeLay actually says. You are a poster on the internet and not a spokesman, but I can say that the conservative shift nationwide is bigger than DeLay.
From the smells of things not only DeLay but many others on both sides of the isle get up in DC and start taking special interest money and they start contorting politics in the way it shouldn't go.
Example being, lets be tough on China. Lets take the President of Taiwan to a baseball game... sure thats cool by me.
But as soon as someone whispers that we might should get tough economically on China, the Wal Mart money flows, the vote cuts across party lines and common sense gets kicked out the door.
Not to mention all that is done under the hat of being a 'true conservative'...and everyone else is a unionist RINO pig if they don't like so and so's opinion.
Have you ever been around Congressman DeLay? "God status?" That's not the DeLay I have met over the years.
I have talked to Congressman DeLay at different things over the years like town hall meetings, phone banks and other places. He is super approachable.
I'm not up for a big flame war on this (because I am going to hit the hay in a minute), but I am just saying as a constiuent, he's a good guy.