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By Francis Rexford Cooley

George Washington is known as the American Cincinnatus along with being our Founding Father. Washington understood the United States did not need a permanent political class. Washington also knew the young republic needed an exemplar, a leader willingly to step aside and give up power as he did three times; as General, as the Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention, and finally as President giving those who followed the idea of voluntary term limits. Unfortunately, it seems the lesson Washington imparted to the United States is lost on many of this generation of politicians.

While Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has somewhat embraced Washington’s example by announcing after last week’s drubbing of the Republican Party across the nation that he will not be the Republican minority leader others seem to be seeking a way to ride out the election defeat and stay in power. One example is Connecticut G.O.P Party Chairman, Ben Proto. A full week after one of the worst election day defeats the Connecticut Republican Party has ever suffered and Chairman Proto maintains his position and has not resigned.

Though some may argue that a full analysis of election needs to be done and a plan to rebuild the party in Connecticut needs to be created it is obvious the first step in the process is to remove from command the leadership that failed. Simply put with only three seats in the state senate and thirty-five in the state house the Republicans have been made as irrelevant at the state level as the Republicans are on the federal level with no congressional or senate seats being held by the party since 2009 when Jim Himes took over for Chris Shays after the 2008 election.

While there may be debate on what the Republicans in Connecticut should do going forward? It should be obvious Chairman Proto is not the one to solve this problem given the track record of the CT G.O.P under his watch.

Quite simply Ben Proto should have had the grace to resign immediately after the election. Mike Johnson understood this and removed himself from consideration for House Minority Leader. George Washington understood this by creating the concept of voluntary term limits when he could have easily been elected for the third term as President. Unfortunately too many of this generation’s political players refuse to give up power emulating Napoleon Bonaparte even after their defeat needing to be exiled to St. Helena after their Waterloo.

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