Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani have been trying to make traction by recent criticisms of President Obama on foreign and defense policy. In so doing, they are joining former Vice President Dick Cheney in accusing Obama of undermining US national security.
Do either of these men really believe that they are improving their political future by their negative attacks on a President so soon after inauguration, less than three months in office? Gingrich has not been in elected office since 1998 and Guiliani since 2001, and neither has evidenced in any way that they have any real political support within their own party, let alone in public opinion polls.
If they wish to draw attention to themselves, fine, but their rhetoric is not likely to win them any support and give them any hope of playing a major role in the Republican party in the future. New ideas and less belligerence on their part would be more likely to improve their standing and that of their party, which seems bereft of unique, original ideas. The two men and their party at this point represent the past resisting the future!