GOP shouldn't delay in replacing DeLay (Barf alert EDITORIAL)

AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN ^ | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 | EDITORIAL BOARD

[johnb838]

I prefer victory to being right. The need to be above it all is what has us on the brink of losing the country. Fight fire with fire. No one likes having their own tactics used against them.

[Labrax3]

"I prefer victory to being right."

This, my friend, is the road to perdition. Victory and Right is the only goal worth pursuing, otherwise we will simply create another version of what we set out to destroy, except it will be very likely much worse, given the entropic principle in politics. It is not playing dirty that have gotten us this far, although this is the way the lefties like to spin it. What has gotten us this far is conviction, faithfully adhering to principles.

We cannot let a cancer grow just because we are afraid the treatment might be politically painful in the short term.

[yellowdoghunter]

I think that victory would be short-term if it is not done the right way. Republicans attract many people because we are considered the party who still believes in right and wrong. Once that perception is gone there will be nothing left to tell the two parties apart.

Please understand, I love the Republican Party and will not allow anyone to bring us down. (Not that Delay is, just stating that as fact.)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for your courage. I've been trying to find a strong counterpoint here. Ok. Here's what I found:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363204/posts

"...Just days before DeLay's trip KORUSEC had changed its financial status by registering as a foreign agent. Under the new registration members of Congress are not allowed to accept such trips..."

Sounds to me, although I'm not well-studied on this, that maybe he got nailed on a ringer?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363204/posts

"...Just days before DeLay's trip KORUSEC had changed its financial status by registering as a foreign agent. Under the new registration members of Congress are not allowed to accept such trips..."

Sounds to me, although I'm not well-studied on this, that maybe he got nailed on a ringer?

[Always Right]

After the big storm calling for Newt's resignation after he accepted advance money for a big book deal, the media was silent when the Clinton's collected much more advance money on their book deals. If the media really wanted to fix this problem, they would ask DeLay to pass a law making such 'unethical' behavior illegal. DeLay stepping down will do nothing to solve the problem.

[Always Right]

I think that victory would be short-term if it is not done the right way. Republicans attract many people because we are considered the party who still believes in right and wrong. Once that perception is gone there will be nothing left to tell the two parties apart.

But DeLay stepping down will not fix the problem. Remember when Newt resigned because of a book deal he signed and the huge media pressure. A short while after, both the Clintons accepted a much larger book deal and the media was silent. DeLay stepping down will not fix this. If the media really thinks what DeLay did is evil, the media should demand the law be changed so politicians will stop doing this. Otherwise it will just be business as usual.

[roses of sharon]

Some "freepers" are susceptible to the NY elite editorial boards.

And all the while they laugh at us in their Manhattan Salons.

Republicans and conservatives still have not learned how to fight. They are very, very, naive.

But that is how the left took control of all major media, Hollywood, education, culture, and the judiciary.

[kcvl]

Republicans would be wise to get themselves another majority leader before more damage is done.

I just love it when liberal KOOKS give Republicans advice. /sarcasm

When the liberal KOOKS clean out their closets then they can start on someone else. They are the ones who defended Bill Clinton's perjury. Unless, they can provide PROOF of Delay doing anything wrong they should just shut the hell up!

Hell no, Delay won't go!

Liberal KOOKS seem to be afraid of him.

[mountainfolk]

The biggest mistake Newt made was backing down from the $4 million book deal. A few years later Hillary accepted, as I recall, $9 million for her book. Of course, she got the money slightly ahead of being sworn in as a senator so that made it OK. Tom DeLay is the reason the Republicans are in control of congress. The Republican party abandons him at the risk of demoralizing party members who are already disgusted with many of our senators and congress critters for their shallow support of the party. The RATS have unsuccessfully tried to destroy Cheney, Rumsfeld and judicial nominees and now it is Tom DeLay. We had better hang tough on this or suffer the consequences of lost elections.

[Big Horn]

This is the same as a compliment about the greatness of DeLay. I wish we had more like him.

[Always Right]

The RATS have unsuccessfully tried to destroy Cheney, Rumsfeld and judicial nominees and now it is Tom DeLay. We had better hang tough on this or suffer the consequences of lost elections.

Don't forget their viscous racists attacks on Condi, their feeble attempts to destroy Jeb Bush, their relentless attacks against Katherine Harris. They really want to destroy Ken Blackwell, but I see no chance of that working either.

[zendari]

We all know the media is biased and liberal. Given that, I really think that Delay has to be replaced as Majority Leader.