Because it's all "just words", as Barack Obama once said.
Newt Gingrich, NY Sun
If someone hits a home run with language, ideas, and/or attitude, a
substantial number of disheartened and despairing anti-Trump donors may
notice — and decide to write really big checks.
Shocking right? A politician asserting the primacy of politics.
Well, "the most important moment" doesn't exist. There is a long series of important moments, when the voters have their actual say in the polling booths of the individual primaries and the elections, at which point the politicians had better deliver on the words, or else.
Most of them don't, but we fall for them every time, and they know it.
But this is most certainly true:
Given all the press coverage early in Mr. DeSantis’ candidacy — and the
substantial amount of money he raised — his slide has been the biggest
Republican story this year.
Yes, it is the biggest story because Ron DeSantis has consistently delivered on his words in Florida . . .
and the voters nationally don't give a flying fig.
Newt should know better.
He followed up his words as a congressman during the 1980s with a Speakership in the 1990s consisting of a temporarily successful if mixed bag of policies. Which is why he, along with Mitt Romney, subsequently never made the big time. You can't run against ObamaCare by promising RomneyCare or HeritageFoundationCare instead. Donald Trump in his hubris never learned the lesson either, squandering away his political capital on overturning it in 2017.
The majority of Republicans now remain content with the feckless entertainer who mouths "just words". They have no appetite for the humdrum of an executive who actually delivers and executes real, lasting reform.
This remains a not serious country, ridiculously adolescent to the end.
