Tom DeLay: It Will Take Years To Rebuild The Party I Helped Burn To The Ground

If you thought George W. Bush had a pathological lack of self-awareness, check out these comments by the Hammer.

"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.

Indeed. And under the category of "doing something different," I’d put, "not have the most powerful member of your party in Congress indicted on criminal charges."

The Hammer seems to think the problem isn’t that the GOP has lost two wars, turned record surpluses into record deficits, done nothing about the US’s dependence on oil or health care, became utterly corrupt, and has been hijacked by theocratic flat-earthers. No, the problem is the GOP isn’t raising enough money on the Internets.

Seriously.

"People out there that are making decisions are not focusing, in my opinion, on what it’s going to take to rebuild the conservative movement and rebuild the Republican Party. They’re living with 10-, 15-year-old technology. They still believe if you raise enough money, go on television enough, you’re going to win. Those days are over," he said.

How much of a mess is the party that Bush/Cheney/Rove/DeLay ran for most of the past decade? DeLay’s own wife isn’t voting Republican in November.

"I’m trying to convince my wife not to do it," he [DeLay] said.

Heckuva job, Tom.

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