Tea v. the GOP: Getting it Right
Winning versus Whining
By
Mark Alexander ·
October 3, 2013
"Experience [has] long
taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those
who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of
doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish." --Thomas
Jefferson (1803)
The title of this column should read "Tea and the GOP." Unfortunately -- no, tragically -- "Tea versus the GOP" is more accurate.
The infighting between
conservatives and moderates in the Republican Party is undermining any
chance of ever establishing conservative majorities in the House and
Senate, much less seating another conservative president of
Ronald Reagan's stature.
Too many Republican conservatives and moderates refuse to abide by President Reagan's
11th Commandment:
"Republicans shall not ever speak ill of their fellow Republicans."
They ignore this advice at great peril to the objective of ever
achieving any redress to the Left's relentless assault on
Liberty. (Stay with me -- I'm going to provide irrefutable evidence of Reagan's wisdom in practice.)
Unfortunately that "ignorance" has been on full display for the last
three weeks, in the self-mutilating spectacle of Republican infighting
over the House's Continuing Resolution and its use as a tool to force
votes on defunding, delaying or amending ObamaCare (better now referred
to as "DemoCare").
