I disagree. When Tom DeLay was ousted by the backroom machinations of our RINOs along with their compadres across the senatorial aisle, you will notice that there was no longer a functional party whip from then on. The conservative agenda was traduced in the Senate. Tom DeLays absence hurt the Party. He was and is a good politician, disliked by many because he plays political hard ball. He is just the sort of man we need as a president.
NOw maybe we can go and find such a man, properly couched in clothing which our earnest Democrat friends and puny minded Rinos can stomach according to their false bipartisan pork barreling lights.
I would vote for DeLay as president in a heart beat, a hard man he is, but a hard man maltreated by his own party, and abandoned by the soft cheeses who now run the RNC, who worry more about image than substance.
So we will disagree on Tom Delay, and I guess that is what makes your cookie crumble, and there is nothing I can or will do about that.
Suture yourself!
Tom Delay was "ousted" by himself not the almight "RINO".
Delay had NOTHING to do with the "Senate".
Then the idiotic actions he took in the Primary ensured a Republican loss of a seat when he later cravenly backed out of the race. Why did he do this AFTER the primary instead of BEFORE?
No one is complaining about "hardball" tactics or his actions prior to 2006 (well except for the Schiavo nonsense) but his totally egotistic actions last year.
He allowed himself to get caught up in these legal issues with NO other Republican responsible for them but himself.