Silence Loud in GOP Ranks

(from Sunday's Times Herald)

By MARGARET GIBBONS, Times Herald Staff

I know Republicans like to invoke the late former president Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment — Thou shalt not speak evil about any Republican.

However, even rank-and-file GOPers who busted their butts in last November’s elections are still waiting for their leadership’s thoughts on Republican Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairman James R. Matthews’s power-sharing pact with new Democratic county Commissioner Joseph M. Hoeffel III.

Hoping that their leaders could change things, these GOPers did not demand explanations or condemnations after the pact was first announced last month.

But now it is a done deal and still the silence persists. At best, the foot soldiers get a wormy little “what’s done is done, let’s concentrate on this year’s elections.”


Seems to me it would be rather hard to energize your workers when your leaders just give away the fruits of their efforts. But, hey, what does a mere mortal know about the machinations of political minds?