March 17, 2007
Tom DeLay, the fiery former House majority leader, knows why his party lost control of Congress last year. And he is not to blame.In his new book, Mr. DeLay, a polarizing figure whom Democrats sought to make a symbol of Republican corruption, attributes the Republican defeat in November to frustration with President Bush, the war and “a general perception of Republican incompetence and lack of principles.”
“I would suggest that Republicans lost because they did not communicate their message and their victories with enough strength to overcome short-term, media-fed issues that arose right before the election,” Mr. DeLay writes in the book, “No Retreat, No Surrender” (Sentinel), referring in part to the Congressional page scandal.
Maybe, Tom, you would care to address the way in which you sought the congressional nomination for an election which you never intended to contest, and then bailed out after getting an "attaboy" from the majority of the voters of this district. Your self-centered, selfish decision cost us one congressional seat for sure -- yours, because we had to run a write-in candidate in your place -- and emboldened Democrats around the country when they were able to claim they had your scalp.
And Tom, while I still believe you are not guilty of the offenses charged by Ronnie Earle, I believe you are guilty of one thing -- the selling out of your own party for your personal aggrandizement.
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