A candidate that should still be in the race
This from an interview with former GOP presidential candidate and governor of Virginia Jim Gilmore about the Republican party:
“I think that it’s challenged, and the reason is because we have fuzzied up the idea of who we are and what we are. There is lack of clarity as to what the Republican Party stands for. Nationally, we Republicans went into office claiming we were going to be a new majority (in 2002) and we were going to do things differently, but we didn’t. Republicans went in … and proceeded to spend and spend and spend and spend, raise taxes, do earmarks, build bridges to nowhere and with a sense of corruption of self-service. I believe the Republicans projected a sense that they would rather keep the majority than do the right thing and when that happened the public, quite justifiably, turned to the other party.”
Sometimes statesmen can be partisan politicians - and that’s okay with me.
