>>The party is going to die without some new blood, or a triumphant return of some old heroes.<<
So, who are the “old heroes” you have in mind?
Newt?
I’m forever turned against Newt, since I saw that commercial on TV with Pelosi and him sitting on a couch, in a desert, babbling about global warming. Far as I’m concerned, he should be banished to the desert for eternity.
Maybe you were thinking of Colin Powell, yeah, that must be it. (/s/)
Newt is one possibility.
Newt sat on the couch with Pelosi because thesis without antithesis is not subject to synthesis.
You really should read up on the Hegelian Dialectic.
It is the foundation of our two-party system.