I think Chris Cox should replace Armey, he has the Daschle demeanor, worked for Reagan, ext. smart and capable guy, does great in tv interviews.....Who do you think should replace Armey?

Army should stay, we are losing too many good conservatives already.

No, no, no. What you do is VOTE YOUNG ONES IN.

The biggest blot on his career is his involvement in the botched 1997 "coup" against then-Speaker Gingrich. He protested long beyond the point of credibility that he wasn't somehow part of the plotting. The fact that he survived Mr. Gingrich's 1998 fall shows he had his own independent power base, but the coup's lingering bad taste cost him any chance at becoming speaker himself.

Let's give Armey credit where credit is due. Dick Armey along with Tom DeLay and John Boehner had THE VISION to oppose the morally and conservatively challenged former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich disgraced himself utterly with his adulterous affair and was always more of a liability from 1996 on than an asset or a leader to the conservative Republican cause. No, Armey can only be faulted for not supporting the coup plotters choice of Tom DeLay as Speaker because Armey coveted the top job himself. Once Armey ceased his support of the coup, it was finished and good conservatives got punished by Newt who always wielded the Speakership in a most autocratic and dictatorial style.

I think Chris Cox should replace Speaker Denny "the Coach" Hastert--rightly called the accidental Speaker and known for being far to conciliatory and bipartisan to the Democraps. If Newtie was too combative, Hastert is at the other extreme right along with mushy moderate get along-go along former GOP House Leader Robert Michael. Hastert should never have become Speaker. The GOP should have gone with Cox as Newt's successor from the start. Now, Cox has set his sights on the Supreme Court with a Federal Court of Appeals judgeship in the interim, but the Democraps led by Barbara Boxer shot that down right quick.

I don't know what is happening here in Texas, but for Graham and Armey to retire at the same time makes me wonder what they know that maybe I should know. This is pretty shocking news. No wonder his office staff have been so bland to my plea's for border control, and vote reform when I talk to them.

I wouldn't be puting the "d-ash hole demeanor" out there as something to be admired. The person is a "party" before principle, anti-constitutionalist, domestic enemy of the worst order. An oath breaking voice of the extreme left, and anyone with half a brain, knows it, by just a cursory listen to what comes out of tommy two tongues mouth. Given the choice between releasing taliban john, or tommy two tongues from prison for their treasonous acts, you might be able to guess who would be my first and far less dangerous choice.

No what he stands for is quite awful, but his demeanor is quite good, at least politically. He does not scare anyone, comes across as quiet, thoughful, patient, etc......He is not frothing at the mouth. To be sure a good deal of this perception is because the media agrees with him, but his demeanor does help. It is a demeanor that Republicans should adopt.

Is his district safe or are we in trouble there? And is there anyone good to run in his place? Thanks, Karen (Dagny)

And, keep in mind that Armey's new district is one of the most GOP (and conservative) in Texas.

See my post #9. It is very GOP.

There is some talk that he is clearing the way for his son Denton County Judge Scott Armey.

Also, Jane Nelson, who holds the underlying state senate district, could run. But we need her to send ultra-liberal Mike Moncrief into retirement. However, I'm sure young Armey and Nelson will reach some accord

Dick Armey's time had passed several years ago. He is a professor. Ideas, not work, and certainly not a business person's ideas are the backbone of this guy. He is more concerned with procedure than with the actions or politics of the street we live on. He is not very good at bringing home help either. You should see the mess that is the highway between his old college campus and Dallas. Jim Wright at least knew how politics made the party and the roads better.

Interesting...

connect the dots.....

1994 Conservative revolution, 1998 coup against Gingrich, gop has been losing ground ever since

Conservatives retiring, moving on....gop firmly in the hands of "moderates", bi-partisanship the new order of the day,

gop leadership sponsoring big government solutions and over-spending.

Does this mean that the gop has turned left?

What will be the future of the gop?

November of 2002 will be very interesting.

Yeah, the roads around here could use some work too. Oh well, maybe the next guy will be able to get something done.

It's pretty safe for a very conservative Republican, we don't like Rino's here.

"There is some talk that he is clearing the way for his son Denton County Judge Scott Armey."

Pray that this isn't true. 'Judge' around here simply means that young Armey heads the County Commission, an apparently thoroughly corrupt body in Denton County (except Cynthia White), even though solidly in GOP hands.
Scott Armey has never held a productive job, going straight from college to the public trough, and there has never been any evidence that he has any principles whatsoever, other than a burning desire to acquire political power.
Jane Nelson would make a far better choice. She at least has expressed and demonstrated conservative principles in her time in the Texas Senate. Or Mary Denny, an even-stronger conservative who has been a consistent voice for gun-owners' rights in this area.

"He is not very good at bringing home help either. "

When you say "help", you obviously mean "pork".
I don't think it's a bad thing when a politician resists the urge to take money from someone else's pockets to pay my bills.
The proper term for that is "principles," and I think Dick Armey has them.
I'll admit that this is so rare in Congress that it is difficult to recognize them!

Was it Paul Gigot who included that gratuitous slur "in world-famous Denton," or did you add that, 'Watsonfellow'?
My erstwhile high opinion of someone has just dropped considerably.

Dunno, but this time let's check for cojones beforehand.

I would not insert my own opinions into someone else's essay without a clear parenthetical insert...I am somewhat offended at the suggestion. If you don't believe me check out the link. I happen to like small towns, especially small college towns (having gone to school in fair Claremont)