Posted on 04/04/2007 10:34:17 AM PDT by seanmerc
Conservatives need to stop "pointing fingers at each other" and unite or Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the U.S., former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said in an exclusive NewsMax interview.
The Texas Republican also admitted he was a "self-centered jerk" before he was born again, called Nancy Pelosi "dangerous" – and said he spent five weeks "on my knees" praying before deciding to resign from congress last June.
DeLay, whose new book is "No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight" – spoke with Paul Crespo.
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NewsMax: I'm switching gears. How was the left able to demonize you so effectively, and can you describe a little bit the Democratic strategy for totally destroying their opponents?
DeLay: That's just their nature and strategy. It is not new. It took them 12 years to get to me. As I say in the book, it is not good enough to oppose you, it is not good enough to vilify you, they destroy you. They try to bankrupt you, destroy your family, put you in jail. For a long time I was able to hold them off. Every charge that has been brought against me has been dismissed as frivolous.
Right now they have created a scandal over the [fired] U.S. Attorneys, with no evidence whatsoever. Times have changed when you can do that. They are issuing subpoenas based on no evidence. They are coordinated and complicit with the media. In the past the media used to be responsible enough to look at a scandal and decide whether it is real or not, go with it if there is evidence there but drop it if there is not. Those days are over. The media is right there helping them and probably even working with them.
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I agree wholeheartedly.
Geez Tom...maybe you should have thought about this BEFORE you wrote a book tearing down GOP leaders and exposing their frailties and foibles for all the world to see.
So am I to believe he was born again early this week?
If you’re not a born-again Christian, you wouldn’t understand. Besides, most of us are pretty self-centered.
As long as DeLay doesn’t suggest dropping all principles and marching lockstep with New York Liberals, I would agree.
Thompson/DeLay in ‘08
You never should have quit the House, Tom. Step down from the House leadership, yes, but you should have not quit before your term was over.
Wrong. When I was at the March for Life a lot of the speakers commented that the Democrats were growing stronger and threatening the movement. That is true. But the reason they are growing stronger is because of Iraq.
If anyone is going to unite, the burden is on the hawks to unite around the rest of us. Not the other way around. I’m not burning political capital on issues that I care about so that Bush can play double or nothing on Iraq.
Besides which, if two of our enemies (Shiites and Suunis) want to kill each other, then we should let them.
I agree Tom. It’s time for Fred to formalise his candidacy, and for Republicans to unite behind him!
The Democrats ARE dangerous!
No more GWOT, House committee decrees
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811717/posts
The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.â€
The “global war on terror,†a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the “long war,†which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.
Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration’s catch phrases. The memo, written by Staff Director Erin Conaton, provides examples of acceptable phrases, such as “the war in Iraq,†the “war in Afghanistan, “operations in the Horn of Africa†or “ongoing military operations throughout the world.â€
It’s easier to STOP FUNDING it that way!
I do not agree. We can discuss uniting after the primaries. Primaries should be about setting the direction for the party. Its either allow the continued leftward drift of the GOP, try to move the GOP to the right during primaries, or go the third party route. I select door number 2.
I love it. No comment or “commentor” (from any perspective) will go unpunished here these days.
boy, how ironic is it that Delay is calling for unity after he slams many republicans in his new book.
Tom DeLay: Time for GOP to Unite.
All the unity in the world will still only get them 35% - 40%................
If the republicans do not want another ‘06 they are going to have to find a way to win back the independent vote.
Right message. Wrong messenger. (IMHO....)
You are 100% correct, but the base seems to have no interest in reaching out to new (and former) voters.
“The base seems to have no interest in reaching out to new (and former) voters.”
Probably correct. Stubborn, narrow minded, and uncompromising is no way to go through life.........
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