[Political Junkie Too]

I was never clear what he did to warrant the harassment he has received.

I think it's just that he's old, tired, and weak. We need fresh faces.

If one wanted to entice the young to join the Republican party, seeing "leaders" like Roberts, Alexander, McConnell, Hatch, and McCain won't really leave the young with a feeling of joining a group that understands and represents them.

I recently posted elsewhere about Roberts' involvement in the Democrat "memogate" scandal many years ago. In that scandal, Intelligence vice-chair Jay Rockefeller authored an email detailing how the Democrats were "pulling along" Republicans until such time as they could "pull the trigger" on investigations of the Bush administration.

Instead of being outraged and demanding Democrats to punish their own, Roberts, Hatch, and the rest of the Republicans succumbed to Democrat pressure to fire the person who found the memo (Manuel Miranda) instead of fighting back and putting the heat on Democrats.

If there is anything that I could say about Roberts, it would be that he exhibits the same timidness that all the rest of the Republicans do when they are confronted with Democrat thuggery. The let the Democrats pressure Republicans into not playing the strong cards in their hand, even though they know that Democrats would hide aces up their sleeves if the situations were reversed.

-PJ

[Dave W]

Thanks for the information. *Sigh*, with the exception of Gingrich, who was dumped by his own members because they blamed him for the loss of 5 House seats in 1998, the republican leaders are all weak in the knees. It is our Ebola - internal bleeding. Some blame the media that makes the repubs weak since they know they will get pummeled, beaten and whipped if they show any sense of strength.