The Tea-Party Warriors Who Are Now 'Establishment Republicans'

My opinion is that we Conservatives are too hasty write off our leaders. They are constantly swimming against a very strong current.

We need to give Paul Ryan some slack at least for a year or two. He is not John Boehner.

The GOP establishment does need to go - esp. McConnell. Between McConnell and Boehner, nothing was done by the GOP. Yes, they had an intransigent President with backing by the media and intelligentia, but those two did not seem to even be fighting back. Neither did they show any respect to members of the GOP who wanted to oppose Obama and is liberal agenda.

Look how they treat Cruz, and how they treated Michele Bachmann.

Sowell is so right in his column. It is no wonder that voters are attracted to Trump and Cruz. We are looking for a man with a backbone.

Good point Gaffer

Fool me once....

I am unaware that the American People "set a trap" for Tricky Dick Nixon. Or, for that matter, that the Democrats set one either.

I'm aware of staggering 'Rat hypocrisy and boo-hooing about all the issues that came up, which the 'RatMedia had tolerated as normal practice when the inestimably snaky FDR and LBJ had been the doers, and their hypocrisy and ruthless mendacity in contesting and pursuing Joe McCarthy literally into his grave.

I'm unaware of any popular complicity in "bagging" Nixon; that was a MediaRat operation exclusively.

I remember at the time that I was in graduate school, and it wasn't until James McCord began to give testimony that the scandal attracted any wide public attention; and things didn't go kaboom until John Dean appeared before the committee in March, 1973, nine months after the break-in.

The American people fell for the trap of the media. Nixon surely didn’t seem to know how to help himself. I guess we can say that’s what we got with another old GOP compromiser.

The GOP establishment does need to go - esp. McConnell. Between McConnell and Boehner, nothing was done by the GOP. Yes, they had an intransigent President with backing by the media and intelligentia, but those two did not seem to even be fighting back.

You need to do a little reading on the background of Obamacare.

Howell Raines is a former editor-in-chief of The New York Times. Having lost his job in a reporting scandal, he wandered through waterless places, but with his fat Rolodex of contacts, he soon fastened on a breaking story that the rest of Media was sitting on. That was a behind-the-scenes handshake deal between the Republican and Democratic hierarchies, to allow the Prog wing of the DemonRat Party to achieve their 60-year-old wet dream of seizing control of the country's healthcare arrangements, and taking scores of millions of women with sick or needy kids into permanent political receivership. Lest you doubt they think that way, remember what LBJ infamously said about black voters and his two civil-rights acts, that he, LBJ, would "have those _______ voting Democratic for the next 200 years".

Howell Raines's article appeared in the October, 2008 issue of Conde' Nast's Portfolio. Find it, read it, and wonder at the refusal of the LieStreamMedia to report that huge political story. You won't look at the American Enterprise Institute in the same way again, either.

What do all three have in common? Betrayal on illegal immigration. It seems to me that the illegal issue has, among conservatives, become the ‘third rail’ for Republican politicians. I think this is a very good development. Trump understood that all these polls that suggested that the majority supported amnesty were rubbish. He has ridden the issue to the top of the field. Good for him.

"We WERE betrayed, and they are still betraying us - daily."

Agreed. The NRO is the RINO mouthpiece.

The RINOs are the reason for Trump, who is a far from perfect candidate.