I’m adult enough to admit that I was excited at his speakership when it happened. Having gone through several years with Pelosi at the helm, ANYTHING was an improvement, and even my wife liked him, which says a lot for someone who’s as apolitical as they come.
I think the larger issue is the corrupting nature of DC as a whole. It seems that men and women with values and conviction go there and lose their way. DC is full of the “Scylla and Charibdis” sort of situations where even a principled citizen legislator is turned into a pawn for the world body politik to which we seem to be turning.
Take Rubio for example; here’s a man who gave a rousing acceptance speech in 2010 to the point that he had me tearing up. Now that he’s been established in DC, he’s become a pandering crybaby who sides with the likes of Schumer and Reid.
I wish no man or woman the curse that is elected office, and that’s the way it should be; but with so many politicians going into office with the best of intentions and leaving 50 years later a corrupted husk of humanity, is it any wonder we’re left making the “Scylla and Charibdis” decisions and getting sucked into the maelstrom anyway?
It’s not just the influence of DC, it’s money that is what politics is all about.
i remember reading an article about him, or maybe it was an interview in World Magazine when he was about to become speaker... a lot of conservatives were skeptical... and in the interview he said all of the right things... and it seemed to me many were hoping and cross their fingers... giving him the benefit of the doubt... and he has turned out to be what many feared... i wish someone would oust him from the spot... he isn't just useless to us... he is harmful...
The infamous “Potomac Fever”. I used to think that that was the main problem too. Now I have come to believe that a good many of them are infiltrators-undercover leftists-infiltrating the GOP in order to further the leftist agenda. I don’t consider that scenario the least bit paranoid, as they have done exactly that starting decades ago with the media and academia, and more recently with the military and mainstream Christian churches, and are nibbling at the edges of the Catholic church. Infiltration and either destruction from within, or takeover, works well for them, even better than outright open revolution, because one, it doesn’t hurt their gun-grabbng agenda, and two, they are able to marginalise/turn into a fringe element, such people who believe in Bible inerrancy, the Second Amendment, homeschooling, etc. Once they’re marginalised, they are easily demonised in the popular culture.