[Steelfish]

You beat me to it by a second. This is the best article of the New Year!

[unixfox]

Let’s just call them Republicaves from now on.

What a bunch of losers.

[Norm Lenhart]

Well Tom, a few of us played the Oracle of Delphi and were soundly mocked for it.

Perhaps they will listen to you on that whole ‘stand for something’ bit, but don’t count on it. Because there are plenty more Romneys in the GOP just waiting to be adored by modern ‘conservatives’

[TADSLOS]

Bret Stephens said, back at the beginning of 2012, that Mitt Romney was one of the “hollow men,” and that voters “usually prefer the man who stands for something.”

Yet this is not just about Mitt Romney. He is only the latest in a long series of presidential candidates backed by a Republican establishment that seems convinced that ad hoc “moderation” is where it’s at — no matter how many of their ad hoc moderates get beaten by even vulnerable, unknown, or discredited Democrats.

No one says it like Thomas Sowell can.

[Jyotishi]

The need of the times: a well-funded conservative political party.

[chris37]

They are going to cave on the 2nd amendment too.

[GBA]

To me, the Republican establishment is the eighth wonder of the world. How they can keep repeating the same mistakes for decades on end is beyond my ability to explain.

Ha! Even someone as thoughtfully adept as Thomas Sowell can't understand it. That makes me feel better for some reason.

[Madame Dufarge]

Whenever I read a Thomas Sowell column, I'm overcome with the sad realization that this 82 year-old hero is almost at the end of his brilliant journey.

[GOPJ]

...the Republican establishment is the eighth wonder of the world. How they can keep repeating the same mistakes for decades on end is beyond my ability to explain.

Sowell's right...it's beyond belief.

[Manta]

Republicans can't answer Democrat smears because they agree with the smears. Both Democrats and Republicans agree that “you are your brothers keeper”. To fight the Democrats, the Republicans must reject the morality behind that evil bromide. That morality is altruism. Either you have the right to your life or you don't.

[Travis McGee]

The Great Tom Sowell: may he live to be a hundred!

We need his wisdom now more than ever.

[Gene Eric]

Sowell ping

[Tublecane]

The “forgotten man” argument is so easy once you’ve heard it that I have to believe Republicans haven’t publicized it because they don’t believe in it. Maybe they half-heard and half-digested it, like Romney’s butchering of Calhoun’s 51% tax-eater warning. Or maybe they’re Republicans because their fathers were, or they’re all just militarists and Fat Cat pamperers as Democrats insist, and there is no principled conservatism in Washington.

[Sans-Culotte]

It is not just Republican presidential candidates who cannot be bothered to articulate a coherent argument, instead of ad hoc talking points. Have you yet heard House Speaker John Boehner take the time to spell out why Barack Obama’s argument for taxing “millionaires and billionaires” is wrong?

It would not matter if Boehner did make such an argument. 'Rats control the media. Coherent arguments from conservatives are not allowed. If they try to make one, they are shouted down and ridiculed by the 'Rat Alinsky media. The Doc is right in all he says as usual; but the Republicrats know they cannot get their message out and it has helped to cower them (even more). I'm not trying to make excuses, but the full-out media blitz is all but impossible to overcome. Yeah, the media was bad when Reagan was president; but they are in Obama = Fuehrer = Messiah mode 24/7 now.

IMO, the Media are the greatest threat to America because they enable our enemies, foreign and domestic.

[neverdem]

Happy New Year!

[Jack Hydrazine]

“How they can keep repeating the same mistakes for decades on end is beyond my ability to explain.”

It’s the voters who keep voting for them. That’s why!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Saw this on Zero Hedge...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-01/house-republicans-fold

House Republicans Fold

Presented with little comment (via Bloomberg):

*HOUSE REPUBLICANS ABANDON EFFORT TO ADD SPENDING CUTS TO BILL
It appears everyone grows tired of the pantomime, even the main actors. Well that was fun while it lasted...

Is this how Boehner feels?

And is Cantor warming up his gavel?

[Jumper]

The GOP Establishment did not make any mistakes; they are fully engaged in power-sharing with the Democrats, period.

[Graewoulf]

Lose at all costs, RINO File.

[zeestephen]

Re: “The Republican establishment still goes for pragmatic moderates.”

That’s only half the problem.

Republican primary voters almost always NOMINATE a pragmatic moderate.