Rove is the worst, but it didn’t start with Rove. Republicans didn’t learn from 1992 after “Read My Lips” Bush raised taxes and cheerfully approved new regulations and spending. Later, Gingrich’s “Contract with America” came to nothing, and now he pimps global warming with Pelosi. Junior Bush and the Rove/DeLay “permanent Republican majority” strategy undid the only accomplishment of the Gingrich Contract, welfare reform, and ushered in the largest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ.
The Bush-Rove-Abramoff wing of the GOP is not conservative. It has always modified its brand of “conservativism” with modifiers like “kinder and gentler” and “compassionate”. When the Bush-Rove-Abramoff types aren’t calling conservatives racists, these GOPe types use other modifiers to describe conservatives: “extra-chromosome” and “looney bird”.
I am not going to vote for people who insult me. I really don’t care if some party loyalist says that not voting or voting for a 3rd party is a waste.
Excuse me?!
The Contract with America: Implementing New Ideas in the U.S. - The Heritage Foundation
Never before had so detailed a document become such an integral part of a congressional election campaign; never had so many innovative ideas been drafted into legislation so quickly; and never in the previous six decades had so much legislation been passed by the House of Representatives in less than 100 days after the newly elected Members of Congress took office. As the chief political columnist for The New York Times, R. W. Apple, wrote in a front page news analysis: "Perhaps not since the start of the New Deal [in 1932], to which many of the programs now under attack can trace their origins, has Congress moved with such speed on so many fronts."
Gingrich said that ad with Pelosi was the biggest mistake he ever made.