Posted under Politics & Republican Party
Lord, give me patience.
Here’s snake-oil salesman Newt Gingrich reeling in the gullible — again. Seems he’s been hatching a new scheme for bamboozling voters, this time working with GOP chair Michael Steele, who famously claimed Republicans now stand for abortion and “gay rights.” So now we have a brand-spanking-new CWA. Pardon me if I yawn.
It was the realization of the cynicism and fraudulence of the first CWA that finally turned me against the Republican party. I’d served as president of the Young Republicans when I was in college, and had worked on the Jesse Helms campaign here in Charlotte. When Newt Gingrich announced the first Contract With America, which was to be a Republican-led “revolution” against Big Government, I believed. But like Fox Mulder, I wanted to believe. However, those self-proclaimed “revolutionaries” in the Republican party not only failed to abolish the Department of Education and to cut back government regulation, they sided with Bill Clinton in showering $50 billion of Americans’ tax dollars on the corrupt Mexican government.
I scanned the Constitution for the authority to do that, but couldn’t find it.
Just like I can’t find a reason for believing in the Republican party today.
Chris Hewlett on 16 Nov 2009 at 10:27 pm #
Well, how ’bout the Democrat Party?
Gary on 17 Nov 2009 at 3:58 pm #
Chris, What part of “sided with Bill Clinton (a Democrat) in showering $50 billion of American tax dollars on the corrupt Mexican government” did you not understand?
D B Allyn on 18 Nov 2009 at 2:11 am #
Anyone with half a brain tied behind his back could see this coming from the GOP – the re-cycling of pseudo-conservatives like Dick Armey, Tom Delay (making appearances at tea-parties) and now the cream of the crop – Newt Getrich with his black cohort Michael Steal. Why the GOP has any constituents is beyond me.
Perhaps their new strategy should be call “contract on America I”
Weaver on 20 Nov 2009 at 6:14 pm #
Only, I fear, if they’ve been introduced to that line of thinking.
That’s the only explanation I have for otherwise intelligent people continuing on behind the GOP sham.
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mikefromwichita on 25 Nov 2009 at 10:56 am #
Newt is a political fraud and a moral reprobate. Damn him an the repub wing of the Unity Party to Perdition.