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And, it’s also a fact that he’s calling for the GOP-E to be principled, but that he takes Cruz to task for being principled.

I didn't read that. He criticized Cruz for his methods, not his principles.

That’s not really fair. Folks have been bending over backwards trying to figure out what’s going on with Thomas Sowell and many are giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe what's going on with him is that he wants to win the Senate this year and the White House in 2016 and he doesn't think Cruz is helping accomplish that goal. That is worth considering.

Rather than you berate conservatives for their displeasure and criticism of Sowell, for your erroneous claim of a lack of civil discourse, why don’t you tell this thread where Sowell has made points that they should accept?

OK. What is wrong with this one?

Many Republicans wanted their party to fight the Obama administration before agreeing to raise the debt ceiling, in hopes of extracting at least some concession — on spending, on the Keystone pipeline or whatever. Unfortunately, the Republicans had no more chance of winning that fight than the stranded British troops had of winning a battle against Hitler's army. Whatever the Republicans threatened, President Obama could call their bluff. They would either have to back down or have a second government shutdown for which they would be blamed. Another shutdown could doom their chances of winning the Senate in the 2014 elections, and perhaps even cost them the House of Representatives. In a war, you do not fight battles that you are certain to lose, if only because you will need your troops to fight later in battles you can win.

What’s wrong with it is that it is defeatist.

The current leadership of the republican party have no record of success except that which was initiated by Tea Party conservatives, e.g. the sequester which unfortunately was given away by Paul Ryan with the support of the leadership.

If you have been reading the excellent ‘civil discourse’ on this thread and others you would absorb that history teaches us that winning or losing a battle is not the issue rather it is in building TRUST within your ranks.

There is NO TRUST in McConnell and his ring, or Boehner and his ring. Ted Cruz is building TRUST at every level except with those who are two-faced.

You have also repeated the lie that republicans were responsible for the shutdown. That is the liberal media talking through you; you are parroting their talking point.

The fact is the European press including the BBC were reporting that republicans were WINNING during the Obamacare defund effort when and while they stuck together. Once Boehner caved on the debt ceiling, it was jeered by the disgusting NY media that they lost and were responsible for the ‘shutdown’.

How can you defend the circles of McConnell and Boehner when they just voted against their own party and yet turned around (in McDonnell and Cornyn’s case) and voted with them for the sake of appearance.

How can you defend McConnell when he stated that he had to ‘protect’ Americans in voting to let the debt ceiling be raised without condition and then immediately voted against it being raised. This is 100% transparent hypocrisy. How do you defend this?