Are there any Elder Statesman In the GOP?

[rbrnmw]

That these people will listen to?

[el_bryanto]

1. There was an article about this at Salon I think - talking about Nixon and Reagan

After Nixon resigned the party had a number of members who were high up and respected but not as tainted as Nixon. After George W. Bush's crater at the end of his presidency, there isn't any really anybody on deck who can take the reigns and so were left with what we have.

Not to say that Reagan was good or anything like that but he was Effective at pushing the country right ward and he was enough of a politician to compromise when he absolutely had to.

But for the record Reagan was a bad President.

Bryant

[LadyHawkAZ]

2. Plenty of elder. Not so much statesmen. n/t

[Enrique]

3. Louie Gohmert maybe

[Downwinder]

4. If not for Alzheimer's.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Oh, everybody loves the charming and avuncular Dick Cheney.

Where did you go, Vice President Dickie? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Turn on a camera and see who runs to it.

[NuclearDem]

7. Lugar was the closest thing.

And they cannibalized him for "rape is something is god intended to happen."

[maryellen99]

8. I read on Daily Kos yesterday

That Trent Lott has that modern GOP is too mean and nasty for him. When you've lost an asshole like Trent Lott, you've got a big problem