If the GOP is to recover it (we) first have to face where it's gone off the rails the past few years... sometimes it's painful to hear the truth about yourself and those you love, but we shouldn't shoot the messenger.
I totally agree. There are many things that went wrong since the mandate of 2004 that was thrown away. This month I will be attending many Beltway holiday parties with lots of Hill workers (many now updating their resumes) and it will be interesting to see if they are still in denial.
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Anyone with a working brain knows where the GOP has gone wrong in the last few years. Gingrich surely knows this. He's also old enough to know of and appreciate the wisdom of Reagan's good example:
"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since."
If Gingrich is smart, he'll stop bad-mouthing Bush.