[Kaslin]

Another IBD Thomas Sowell editorial ping

[diverteach]

“Are Republicans “Due”?”

No, Conservatives are due! RINO’s be damned.

[Nitehawk0325]

I don't think the Republicans are ‘due’. I think when the Republicans are in power like they were for the first 6 years of the Bush administration, they need to “USE” their power and stop bowing down or listening to what the Democrats want. If the republicans can't or won't grow a set of balls, they will continue to lose elections and seats in both the Senate and the House to the democrats.
Grow a set and maybe things will start going their way. Also, listen to what the people who voted for you. If you do that, you will be re-elected and the Democrats won't take power from you.

[jjsheridan5]

This has little to do with Republicans, and everything to do with the Democrats. They have revealed their true nature and intentions, and the American people are resoundingly rejecting them.

This isn’t to say there aren’t good Republicans. There are many. But the dynamics at play right now are anger and a sense of betrayal.

[ImpBill]

A long read, but well worth the time to read and re-read again. Mr. Sowell hits the nail squarely on the head.

"Those of us who are not Republicans nevertheless have a huge stake in this fall's elections, because the current administration in Washington is not merely deficient but dangerous, both at home and abroad."

"The stakes in this fall's elections go far beyond the fate of either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. The fate of America is on the line. The Republicans need to understand that — and to understand that they are not simply "due" because of polls. They have a job to do, and what will happen to our children and grandchildren will depend on how well they do it."

I really wonder if Republicans at either the grass roots level or party leadership level really perceive how much is at stake? As Dr. Sowell states, far beyond any Party fate, but the fate of the Republic lays in their understanding of where we have sunk in terms of the life of this Republic and how they have been quite complicit in the fall!

[TADSLOS]

Like McCain was “due”? LOL! Earn it.

[FrankR]

To take this baseball scenario a bit further - relating it to the GOP - you cannot be a good, or consistent hitter, if you are AFRAID OF THE BALL.

In this case "the ball" refers to fear of the press, fear of being called a "racist", fear of being called "unfair", fear of the dems saying anything negative at all.

I think the ostrich behavoir of the GOP is totally, and 100%, fear based. They're trying too hard to please everyone, and that can't be done.

But they are about to learn the true meaning of the old parable, "A coward dies a thousand deaths, the hero but once.". As the cowardly incumbents bend and sway to obama-K*, the left adjourns to their private meeting halls and laughs their butts off and how they're making the GOP flinch.

So, are the Republicans due? Well, in the sense of fair play and a level playing field, I don't think so...they are only DUE if the WORK FOR IT.

We need some American patriot courage - some "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead".

It's the Ben Nelson's who are nose-diving, he sold out...but it's the brave who rise above the fray, and attract the support, i.e. Palin, Brown, etc.

GOP players, if you're afraid of "the ball", stay in the dugout...we don't need you on the field drinking up the Gatorade. If it's attention you need, go to the next tryouts for American Idol and try your luck there, where actual talent, and not B.S. is what it takes to get "selected".

Play ball.

* K=Kenyan

[mamelukesabre]

The pendulum swings. It’s got nothing to do with chance or statistics.

[jazusamo]

An outstanding piece by Dr. Sowell, long but worth the read.

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[dynachrome]

“the question is whether the Republicans come up with the kinds of candidates that can win.”

more rinos will help! /sarc

[LiberConservative]

Umm, no.

[onyx]

“Too many Republicans don’t even know their own party’s history.”

BTTT

I always learn something, if not a lot, from Dr. Thomas Sowell’s columns and this one is one of his best.

[NotSoModerate]

Excellent, just excellent.

[BradyLS]

Sorry, RINOs. You are not due!

[BradyLS]

Here’s what RINOs need to know, from Dr. Thomas Sowell:

“There is no point today in Republicans continuing to try to win over the average black voter by acting like imitation Democrats. Those who like what the Democrats are doing are going to vote for real Democrats.”

Hear that, RINOs? No Lib-Dem is going to want your Diet Choke over the Real Thing!

[T Lady]

'Minorities have been the biggest losers from numerous liberal policies promoted by the Democrats — whether in maintaining the monopoly of failing public schools for the sake of the teachers' unions, restricting the building of housing for the sake of the environmentalists, turning criminals loose in minority communities for the sake of the American Civil Liberties Union and like-minded "progressives" or artificially expanding unemployment among minority young people with minimum wage laws.

All that needs to be explained — and explaining is what Republicans have been neglecting for years, except for Ronald Reagan, who knew that you can have your big tent and your principles at the same time, but only if you took the trouble to make your case to the public in plain English.'

God bless Professor Sowell for once again articulating one of the major weaknesses of the Establishment GOP, particularly in the last paragraph.

It makes me sick to my stomach what the Democrats have done to Blacks in this country, and the sad fact many continue to allow the Donkey Party to bamboozle them.

As Dr. Sowell stated, the Republicans have a great deal of homework to do during the next several election cycles...and the first assignment I would suggest is articulating the message of Conservatism without compromise.