I am overjoyed to hear that Richard Morrison met his fundraising goal for the quarter ($250,000), and the DeLay campaign was running compassionate conservative ads on ESPN during the football game last night (something to do with how foster children won't be loved unless he's elected), so it seems like he's taking this campaign seriously.
With the Travis County indictments, the ethics slap last week over the Smith-support-for-Medicare-vote thing, the still-pending ethics complaint by Chris Bell over the redistricting mess, and now
one of his former aides dodging a subpeona over misuse of indian casino funding, it seems that DeLay is taking heat from all sides. It also seems that the rest of the party (at least on a national level) is backing off from him. He was minimized at the convention; I haven't really seen him doing any local or national campaigning for the President (though obviously the presidential election isn't really a big deal here).
Some liberal blog (I forget which, and I'm not going to look) was suggesting in the last few days that DeLay is done in the Republican party. As much as I'd love to believe it, I think that DeLay is like the cockroaches he used to try to kill. He's an amazing fundraiser, and I don't think so many out-of-state corporations would have given to the TFRM if they didn't think he was extremely powerful. Any sense on how much power he actually weilds now? And if he is really on his way down, who is going to take his place?
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