Posted on 08/06/2008 2:34:10 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Tom DeLay is tired of hearing about the great Republican meltdown of 2006. Instead, he is more interested in planning his party's next victory. "Everybody wants to talk about what happened and who's to blame," DeLay says. "It's time to stop focusing on the past and start rebuilding for the future."
DeLay has been out of Congress for two years now but the former House majority leader isn't out of the game. He started First Principles, LLC, a political consulting firm, and a grassroots organization called the Coalition for a Conservative Majority. He still plots strategy with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. He even has his own blog.
Sitting in his homey offices about ten blocks down the street from the Capitol, DeLay is most animated when talking about his careful study of unlikely sources: George Soros, Matt Bai, and MoveOn.org. "The left is way ahead of the right in terms of communications, coordinated giving, technology, and the ground game," he says. The website for his Coalition for a Conservative Majority sums it up this way: "The grassroots playbook that helped create the conservative majorities of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, the Republican Congress of the 1990s, and George W. Bush in the 21st century failed for the first time to outwork liberals."
That, DeLay maintains, is as big a reason for the GOP's losses two years ago as any of the usual supects: Iraq, overspending, the "culture of corruption," and earmarks. Just as the New Right honed its strategies and founded its keystone organizations during a period of liberal dominance, the left built a grassroots network of unprecedented size and funding after Bush won in 2000. But DeLay isn't sure his fellow Republicans have gotten the memo. "I was praying for a long primary season," he says.
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It's important to determine who was at fault and sideline them before we start building on the same faulty Rino foundation that has brought us from controlling every lever of power, White House, Senate, House, majority of governorships and state legislatures, to, for the moment, controlling only the White House.
If we're rebuilding with Rino bricks, count me out.
That, DeLay maintains, is as big a reason for the GOP's losses two years ago as any of the usual supects: Iraq, overspending, the "culture of corruption," and earmarks.
One led to the other.
It doesn't take a genius to know that it was the Republican abandonment of conservative ideals that led to the lack of enthusiasm and work for Republicans in 2006.
Now he can pay his wife to advise him with his own damn $.
Of course DeLay doesn’t want an analysis of who was at fault because his squandering of the GOP majorities by failing to pursue a conservative agenda was the key problem!
Can’t agree more - Gee - maybe they should be asking why the base got apathetic. Might it be due to Illegal aliens??? Hmmmm?? Could it be for not ruling the country with some cajones??? (They should have played the nuclear option when they had the chance!) Delay was right there as one of the worst of them.
Delay is one of the congressional Republican morons who presided over the largest increase in government in our history. He should just go away.
There is in fact a fairly impressive GOP grassroots network. I know because it is always calling to ask me for money.
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