[ml/nj]

I think he did put up a fight at first, but then he found he was all alone.

All one has to do for the purposes of this discussion is to recall how Rush handled this. It started with vigorous defense of Newt and evolved to sometimes bewilderment. You never heard Rush say anything supportive of the Commodities Scam Queen (not counting the Operation Chaos stuff) but if you were listening you did hear Newt say nice things about her, and I'm not talking about any time when he might have been under attack. I'm thinking of times after he fell off the radar screen. I don't know about you but I have NEVER had anything positive to say about the CSQ.

Of course, I have had positive things to say about Newt. I used to only have positive things to say about him. But now things have changed, and I don't think that I am one of them.

ML/NJ

[jwparkerjr]

Excellent points. I hadn't looked at it that way, but you're right about him compared with Rush. What is there about Republicans that they can't fight for things they consider important? I remember all the trash that was being talked by the Dems in the period following the revolution. The Republican approach was to just ignore it all, with the statement that “the truth will out.”

Gosh, when you stop and actually spend some time thinking about how the GOP went astray after being given nearly full control you start to realize just how many things where they've missed the train.