DeLay: GOP Will Take "Years to Rebuild"

[babylonsister]

:nopity:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/09/delay-warns-gop-faces-long-rebuilding-process/

DeLay: Long rebuilding process for GOP
Aims to get conservative groups to collaborate
Stephen Dinan (Contact)
Monday, June 9, 2008


Two years after he resigned from the House, former Republican leader Tom DeLay says conservatives haven't bottomed out from their 2006 election losses, Democrats are "cleaning their clock," and it will take years before the Republican Party can compete with the operation Democrats have built.

"The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning their clock, and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, 'Well, maybe we ought to do something different,' little or nothing's going to change," Mr. DeLay told editors and reporters at The Washington Times last week.

"I think it's going to take years to rebuild the party," he said. "It is a party that will try to find itself as to what kind of party it is, and it will depend on what kind of leadership emerges from this rebuilding, as to what it ultimately is."

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Mr. DeLay said Democrats and their allies have mastered the art of using independent groups, while Republicans lag far behind, still focused on a party-based strategy that can't compete.

[Gato Moteado]

1. isn't that piece of human garbage in jail?

if not, why not?

[eShirl]

2. hopefully not within his lifetime

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. May they wander aimlessly in the wilderness for generations to come....

good riddance, I say.

[villager]

4. hmmm... 150 years, minimum, sounds fair to me...

n/t

[trumad]

5. Ahhh the irony Tom...

Poor Tom---- when he looks in the mirror he sees nothing....

[InsultComicDog]

15. seriously

If anyone (other than Bush/Cheney) helped put them in the situation they find themselves in, it is he...

[maxsolomon]

6. maybe they should try embracing reality

instead of nostalgia for the way things never were.

[tularetom]

7. Why is anything this piece a shit says worth listening to

He should be the prison girlfriend of some 300 lb. guy with tattoos, not running around loose spewing his verbal shit at fake newspapers.

[Bleacher Creature]

8. And his opinion matters because?

Seriously, this is news?

[Joanne98]

9. He forgot to say he had a lot to do with the downfall.

Republicans never take personal responsiblity for anything. Boo Hoo Tommy!

[SpiralHawk]

10. Republicons could always try honesty, integrity, and real patiotism...

...but apparently that would be in opposition to their 'family values'

[crikkett]

11. hey let's drown the GOP in a bathtub

is it that small yet?

[Initech]

12. Delay is a huge asshole.

Can I echo the :nopity: statement?

[liberal N proud]

13. Years, I hope never

This bunch of criminals and their supporters should all be locked up never to be trusted with the worlds future again.

[underpants]

14. As long as the war in Iraq is around it will be impossible for them to get around it

that aside from the fact that they showed themselves to be nothing but conniving politicos while American people die live on TV (Katrina) and just wait until the grace period ends and blame for 9/11 (not LiIHOP) comes swinging back around on them.

Oh yeah and their ideology is bankrupt and they clearly don't believe it themselves or they would have implimented it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Aw, poor Tommy baby...

It couldn't happen to a more deserving person, or party!

Rot in hell, kiddo, rot in hell!

:nuke:

[LaPera]

17. Don't believe a word a pig like DeLay says-KNOW it's self-serving bullshit meant to create apathy

among the Dems....just like the "republican source" yesterday (who prefers to remain anonymous), that McCain has huge problems and it doesn't look good for McCain...Dems fall for this same bullshit every time the republicans throw it out to them.....Dem's, just like in this forum, eat it all up without even coming up to breathe.

If these republican fuckers like Delay are saying it, you better know it's only meant to help DeLay himself & the republican party !

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Something different? Suggestion:

The GOP could do worse that turn the party back to conservatives and take it away from the fascists and right wing morons like Tom DeLay who call themselves conservatives.

[JaneQPublic]

19. That's the "genius" of Karl Rove. So much for his "permanent GOP majority." (nt)

[Swamp Rat]

20. Tom DeLay eats cockroaches

[Ganja Ninja]

21. It'll take years for enough gullible morons to forget the GOP's

culture of corruption.

[tanyev]

22. And you're a big part of the reason why, Tom.

Thank you so much!

[CatWoman]

23. *giggle*

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

24. Good.

After what they've done to this country, it's the least I can hope for.

[mdmc]

25. So when did we hit "rock bottom"?

My guess would be when we ran a pro-Iraq war ticket in 2004. Perhaps Dean's Iowa SCREAM was our "rock bottom"?

[nomorenomore08]

26. Sounds good to all of us, I'm sure, but they were saying the same thing about the Dems circa 2002.

I don't think a "permanent majority" is something either party can manage at this point in history, no matter how badly the other party screws up.