Too right!! I did not mention that because it looks like over kill, but Bennet is still a casino kind of guy and he and NEWT will never be the soul of the republican party. Rush is insteresting as a speaker, but like Newt and Dennis Prager they are guys with so much baggage - despite their audience. Let them stick to the radio and lets find some serious polical leaders. People who are not ashamed to be conservative. ..Cantor and Palin are a good start.
Dennis Prager is really a liberal at heart, of a Hubert Humphrey- Robert Kennedy sort. Big on Civil Rights legislation and other do-gooder big government junk. He used to identify himself as a liberal, but as he developed a popular following among conservatives he stopped making the distinction. Dennis is okay as liberals go, much in the way of Michael Dukakis’ speechwriter, Charles Krauthammer.
Bill Bennett was still a registered Democrat when his neoconservative pals attacked Mel Bradford in order to scuttle Bradford’s appointment to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and to secure the job for Bennett. To those who witnessed the affair it was an early warning of Bennett’s character, and of the neoconservative willingness to attack conservatives in order to advance themselves.
Rush might make a doubtful leader of the Republican Party- he first registered to vote when he was 37 years old, meaning that he twice failed to vote for Reagan. Not exactly what you’d expect from a fan of politics, or conservatism for that matter. But Rush is a genius at his chosen profession of radio host, and he is a sometime waterboy for Republicans- waterboy being his own description of what he was doing for Dubya. But he’s not particularly knowledgeable about economics or political history- in contrast I suspect he’d be able to speak accurately and with exhaustive knowledge about the NFL and professional golf.
As for who is going to lead either the Republican or the conservative movement, I have no idea. In California I’m merely looking for someone who realizes that America isn’t Mexico’s welfare office and is willing to do something about it.