Can I have Newt Gingrich back? Please???

Seriously, I would give almost anything to have some real conservatives back in power.

It is sometimes unpopular among Democrats, but having a strong conservative congress is a big part of the success of the Clinton administration.

Please, if you are a Republican, vote for some real conservatives in 2006.

They have to run to be voted for.

Well if you find one in a Primary, let me know. I will volunteer on their campaign.

New Gringrich was a real Republican? If by real Republican you mean complete hypocrite, then, he sure was.

After running on a family values platform he was elected to the US House. 16 months later he divorced his first wife while she was in the hospital recovering from surgery. And then the woman had to go to court to get him to pay to support his own children. He said she should just go back to work. I thought the family values people wanted to reduce the number of single mothers having to work and put their kids in daycare.

His second marriage ended after his new wife found out about his affair with a much younger House aide. As Speaker of the House at that time, wouldn't that be considered sexual harassment? He was, in effect, her boss. Would that make him a social conservative?

He then married the young woman, his third marriage. This is the man who told us we needed to bring shame back to America. Apparently he is immune to shame.

He bounced 22 checks during the House Banking Scandal. Would that be a fiscal conservative?

His book deal with Rupert Murdoch ended with the House fining him $300,000 for improprieties. What kind of conservative would that make him?

Newt is no different than the rest of the Republicans in Washington today. Complete moral hypocrites who place party loyalty over principle. He's a serial adulterer who's violated the ethics rules he himself helped set up. He couldn't balance his own checkbook, let alone the nation's. And his inability to shut up and stay out of other's personal lives makes him look like a fool when his own standards are applied to him.

If there are any small government, fiscal conservative, states' rights conservatives left, they aren't in Washington. And Newt ain't one of them.

I think that goes for both parties to be honest. When are politicians going to start serving the people instead of their own interests? Isn't that how it's supposed to be? I could be wrong. There are a few that are concerned about their constituents but you never hear of those in the news. I move we start our own party...The Pot Party!!!

Yep, if there's ever going to be a return to the roots of the republican party (smaller less instrusive government and fiscal responsibility) it's not going to happen until they stop trying to legislate morality and tell the christian right to go take a long walk off a short pier.

But can't they walk on water?

Exactly.

How happy would I be if these were the big stories of the day. In the grand scheme of things, this is petty stuff.

Hell, I'd be happy if our Predisent was lying about blowjobs instead of eavesdropping or LA terrorist attacks.

What by stopping almost everything getting passed? Then dragging him through the dirt because of his private sexual escapades? Which was based on their moral values that exisit for everyone but themselves? Who then allow the shoddy patriot act to go through which took away more of your rights with which they were elected by saying they were going to protect.

Personally I do not understand the term conservative anymore. To me the word just means a bunch of stuffy white men who are in the pockets of big business, fling religious statements to control the masses, further ruined american public schools, and have widened the gap between the rich and the middle class. Those people frighten me.

Cheers. But no thanks. I'll be sending in my overseas ballot as democrat on all things.