The Patriot Post® · End the Circular Firing Squad

Thomas Sowell: “If you listen to some of those who consider themselves the only true conservatives, you would never guess that Senator [Mitch] McConnell received a lifetime 90 percent ranking by the American Conservative Union – and in one recent year had a 100 percent ranking. … This year’s elections and the 2016 presidential election may be among the most important elections in the history of this country… Those Republicans who seem ready to jeopardize their own party’s chances of winning these two crucial elections by following a rule-or-ruin fight against fellow Republicans may claim to be following their ideals. But headstrong self-righteousness is not idealism, and it is seldom a way to advance any cause. Politics, like war, is a question of power. If you don’t have power, you can make fiery speeches or even conduct attention-getting filibusters, but that does not fundamentally change anything. … If the rule-or-ruin faction among Republicans ends up giving the Democrats another Senate majority under Harry Reid, not only the Republican Party but the entire nation, and generations yet unborn, will end up paying the price.”