In my salad days, he appeared to be a shining new knight in The Cause. Now in my oat bran days, I consider him a worn-out, befuddled Don Quixote, charging on his broken-down donkey at all the wrong windmills.....and scarcely realizing he no longer knows (or cares) what The Cause really is.
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In my salad days, he appeared to be a shining new knight in The Cause. Now in my oat bran days, I consider him a worn-out, befuddled Don Quixote, charging on his broken-down donkey at all the wrong windmills.....and scarcely realizing he no longer knows (or cares) what The Cause really is.
While Wyrich's been aptly described above by others as a perennial prompter for circular firing squads, I have to say your assessment of the heart of the matter with Hatch is dead on.
Someone was making a Sales analogy, and despite his flame and bluster during Presentations, Hatch is no Closer.
At the time of Impeachment, Hatch was so imperious that without the rock solid political sense of Phill Gramm, we would have seen a humiliating Censure Motion passed in place of an Impeachment vote.
That's saying quite a bit, and if true it is the core problem. People who want to be liked rarely get things done, they just get taken advantage of. Don't think the old lefties in the Senate don't recognize a need for acceptance in an aspiring colleague, and know how to exploit it.
I have some personal knowledge of the mess the Hatch language has caused in the Marriage Debate. Most Republicans have little stomach for a fight over fundamental moral issues to begin with, and Hatch gives them an enticing , toothless, useless bill to glom onto.