But you won’t get ANY HELP from the Republican Party!!! Look what they did to Palin. Look how the only candidate it could come up with was John McCain. Our PARTY is the problem—it supports big government done ITS way versus the Dem way and that’s it (No Big Difference). I”ll never forget the Clinton Health Plan— and how Bob Dole agreed to help get it passed!! DUH!!! The 1994 Pubbies said they would ABOLISH the Dept of Education and by 2000 we have BUSH-KENNEDY making it bigger, more swollen, and more disgusting than EVER!!!!
All you say is true.
The primary system failed; McCain was selected by dems and independants crossing over. Pubbies may actually need to go back to some version of the smoke-filled rooms.
The loss of Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House had a cost that would be difficult to calculate, and it's not mentioned very often these years later. But the press went after him like they've gone after few before or since, with the aim of destroying him. And, aided by his personal foibles, they were able to succeed.
Republicans have had no really effective national spokesman since. And Newt has bounced around on some of his ideas recently, but he, as much as anyone, was responsible for the Republican take-over of Congress in 1994, but he wasn't around long enough to follow through. And those who succeeded him...