The Rule-or-Ruin Faction of the GOP: Republicans take aim, not at Democrats, but at each other

National Review ^ | 03/18/2014 | Thomas Sowell

[ilgipper]

I hate to say it but Sowell has been compromised or age has set in.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Okay, so I was wrong. Sowell isn’t done taking cheap shots at the Tea Party.

[Paine in the Neck]

So disappointing to hear Sowell still beating the drum for us to ‘unify’ behind, feckless, incompetent and pusillanimous ‘leadership’.

[Gaffer]

So. Sowell has moderated his recent columns of condemnation for the recalcitrant conservatives to one of specious reasoning.

It boils down to him saying, “you have to elect[re-elect]them to see what they might do.” Sounds very similar to something someone else [unnamed] said, doesn’t it?

Frankly, holding up McConnell as a 90% conservative is bullsh!t. Were these ratings organizers truly independent or considered Cloture/Show Vote discrepancies, his rating would be abysmal.

Please don’t anybody try and tell me Sowell is a conservative. That dog just don’t hunt.

[Flavious_Maximus]

VERY DISAPOINTING!

After what Mitch said about the Tea Party, there is no way any “true” conservative should support or endorse him. McConnell is a snake. The RINO of RINO’s. Do not trust him for one second, and that goes for John Boehner as well.

[Iron Munro]

Republican elites don’t want to restore a constitutional republic.

They just want to win elections so they get first dibs at the pig trough and the taxpayers money.

[greene66]

Thomas Sowell is really losing me here.

But then again, the GOP itself lost me when it started backstabbing Palin.

[TEARUNNER14]

Goppies have finally turned me off and my wife and I wish that we can vote out every single one of these politicians and replace them all with good conservatives who will uphold the constitution.

[headstamp 2]

I’m really getting tired of this lesser of two evils crap.

[VRWCarea51]

Three? Questions for you Mr. Sowell.

1) What is McConnell’s position on Scamnasty?

2) How did Mitch vote on the Budget Deal last fall (And how much Pork did he get in return)?

3) How did Mitch vote on the Debt Ceiling this spring?

NUFF SAID!

[workerbee]

only Republican control of both houses can repeal or revise O'care

Gee, wonder which one the RINOs would opt for?

[chris37]

I’m not interested in your awful fail party, Tommy.

You are wasting your bad breath.

[amnestynone]

The only thing we have accomplished from a Republican majority is to loer the taxes on the rich. We have no other accomplishment. Even our welfare reform ha slargely been undone by obama. Does this tell you something? Even our house leadership is actively suporting amnesty to make the dems the majority party. Word is that McConnell actually recruited Rubio to the gang of 8. Enough is enough.

[nathanbedford]

To lecture conservatives that a Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader of the Senate is preferable to Harry Reid as Majority Leader of the Senate is to insult us with a tautology. The question is not between McConnell and Harry Reid, the issue is between a Rino and a conservative.

On issue after issue McConnell has failed conservatism and the nation. He disguises his treachery by voting along conservative lines after he lines up sufficient number of Republican Rinos to combine with Democrats to defeat conservative causes. The last example of this occurred when Ted Cruz forced a vote that counted on the issue of the debt ceiling. McConnell then returns to his state running for reelection claiming his fraudulent conservative bona fides.

Anyone who believes the Mitch McConnell will actually repeal Obamacare even if he enjoys a Republican majority in the Senate is a fool.

Anyone who believes the Mitch McConnell will a deal effectively with the national debt, the deficit, tax reform, and restructuring the military, is a fool.

[workerbee]

Amazing how only TEA Party types are criticized for being critical and “tearing down” other Repubs. Sowell conveniently omits GOPe types trashing Palin, Cruz and other assorted “non-club” candidates and organizations. Sowell continues to disappoint.

[Lazamataz]

Ann Coulter — whose conservative credentials nobody has ever challenged —

Thomas, when you start a sentence with a lie, you end up with nothing but a paragraph of lies following it.

[Graewoulf]

There are those who have learned from the lessons of History, and then there are those who refuse to learn from the lessons of History.

After nearly five years of expert trial and error, the perfect Federal Nationalized Medical Insurance Policy, commonly known as OSHIT, (Obama Socialized Health Insurance Tax), has taught those who can learn from the lessons of History that the best that the Federal Government can do in Medical Insurance is the worst thing that can happen to millions of Americans.

Thomas Sowell has proven that he has not yet learned that lesson.

Thomas Sowell has chosen to stay on the sinking RINO tugboat as it pushes the doomed barge called the “RINOcare Insurance Revision” down Sellout River, and always closer to the thundering waterfall known by Conservatives as “Boehner’s Boneyard.”

[Linda Frances]

I thought it was only leftist who were delusional. To say that no one questions ann coulters conservatism is like saying no one questions whether the pope is a Protestant. Wonder if Sowell is collecting extra cash from rnc so he can retire.

[Liberty Wins]

Thomas Sowell has always been a small-government advocate. Now he is teaming up with Ann Coulter to join the big-government idiots. What has captured his thinking?

Ronald Reagan said, "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers."