Donnie Fowler: The Big Three Fight On: Cheney, Gingrich, & Limbaugh
by dpr on May.07, 2009, under Huff
This week, the House Republican’s #2 leader, Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Virginia) said he wants to start a national “listening tour” because he still is not sure what the Republican Party stands for.
What’s he gonna find out? That only about 25% of Americans even want to say they are Republicans? That yes, indeed, a clear majority of the American people voted for Barack Obama and against the last eight years (six of which were one-party conservative government)? That the public still strongly supports our new president and believes the Republicans aren’t doing anything to clean up the mess they caused?
One thing Congressman Cantor is going to find out is that the three most influential and high-profile Republicans today are none other than Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, Cheney, Gingrich, and Limbaugh.
Name another high-profile, influential Republican.
Go ahead.
OK. Yes. Sarah Palin. (And what a blessing she is.)
The dominance of the three old men prove 20-something Meghan McCain right when she said a few weeks ago that the “Old School Republicans are scared sh**less of the future.”
But no one’s gonna knock El Rushbo from his catbird seat if he has anything to say about it. The man who credits his success to “talent on loan from God” hollered at Cantor about his ill-conceived tour, “We do not need a listening tour. We need a teaching tour.”
Truth is, the waning conservative movement and the GOP needs a learning tour … and some folks who don’t already have chapters in 1970s, 80s, and 90s political history books.
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Donnie Fowler
San Francisco
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