“Newt has a big character flaw, that doesn’t mean that his idea wasn’t a good one.”
I’m not saying his idea wasn’t a good one.
And sure he had a big flaw - one that is typical to most political animals - he presented himself as a champion for family values while personally trampling on them.
“trouble is the party could not keep it going after his demise. “
agreed, and why should they? They are politicians and politicans have to make promises to people in order to get elected. Promises they cannot keep.
They have to raise crazy amounts of money during election campaigns and then spend it rapidly. They forget that this is not how real people deal with money.
So, we wind up with a bunch of guys who are trained to lie to people and are good at wasting alot of money.
And then we act surprised when they don’t make good on their promises and are wasteful with taxpayers’ money.
Ronald Reagan was a politician and he proved that if you stuck to conservative principals you would do OK. His only problems came when he trusted a Democrat. He didn’t worry about getting reelected he followed his beliefs and let the chips fall where they may. I’m not completely cynical, we have some good people we just need them to step up and take over.