Who is left? Newt or the other Rick?
“Who is left? Newt or the other Rick?”
That’s the problem, nobody. I don’t know exactly why, maybe it’s the dyed and permed hair, but Pewrry reminds me of those fraudulent teleevangalists in the 1980’s.
Newt’s a loose cannon. I met him in 1993 at the Conservative Summit sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and National Review. I thought he was an a**hole, but that was exactly what we needed at the time to lead us back from the wilderness and take on the establishment.
The problem was that he couldn’t handle stardom, and he was warned at the time by someone who knew about not being able to handle stardom - the late Sonny Bono (R - California). He didn’t listen, and then he lost his nerve in the budget battles in 1995 and 1996.
Of the remaining candidates, if it’s not Santorum, I think the GOP is finished for a while.