Mustang
Gold Member
Let's take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?
Gingrich resigned under pressure from his own caucus due to the fact that he was an ineffectual leader who blew the 1998 midterm elections, in part, because he pursued Impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton despite the widely understood wish of the American people NOT to do so? And Gingrich was the one who once famously said something to the effect that he would never make another speech without mentioning Monica Lewinski and how Clinton's involvement with her was an indictment of his morals. Of course, at the time, it wasn't widely understood that Gingrich himself had torpedoed his first two marriages by cheating on his wives with female senior staffers.
Now, the Impeachment of President Clinton was pushed by Tom DeLay who was probably the most corrupt politician in a couple of generations considering all of his machinations which are too numerous to mention here. It should also be noted that it was DeLay who pushed for Clinton's impeachment.
Naturally, there's no need to mention Hastert at this point for obvious reasons.
However, the man who was first slated to succeed Gingrich before Hastert, Bob Livingston, had to withdraw his name from consideration (and eventually resigned, I should add) due to his serial philandering.
Of course Boehner was forced to resign for the unforgivable sin of actually working with Democrats to make the gov't work instead of turning the American gov't into the laughingstock of the world which is only a good thing if you want the rest of the world to beat us in the new global economic environment by pulling together while we dicker and dither because conservatives turn governance in this once great can-do nation into little more than the equivalent of a running gag.
In turn, Kevin McCarthy had to withdraw his name from consideration from the top spot because the Republican caucus is in complete disarray.
And Paul Ryan, the onetime VP candidate who was also at one time the darling of conservatives who fawned over him in much the same way that they once fawned over Sarah Palin who seems to have disappeared from view (not to mention relevance) herself, is now being pilloried by conservatives due to a sense that he's not QUITE ideologically pure enough.
Now, how in hell is a political party like this supposed to lead this nation when they quite obviously can't even lead themselves and their own caucus without descending into petty squabbles and political infighting like a group of immature children who lack adult supervision? The fact of the matter is that the GOP has either produced ineffective leadership, corrupt leadership, or they've turned on each other which has done little else than create a sense of complete and utter turmoil within their own ranks.
Conservatives lead the nation? Don't make me laugh!
