May

8

Vern McKinley Required Reading Of The Day, WSJ: In Defense of RINO Hunting

Filed Under News Items, Republicans, big government 

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal today by Pat Toomey, President of The Club For Growth sums up the state of the GOP very well.

Republicans would be better off, the argument goes, if the Club PAC spent its money targeting Democrats instead of liberal Republicans. This is the argument of politicians who care more about maintaining power than using that power to implement conservative policies.

Thus comes the demand for an uncompromising obeisance to the bottom line: Elect as many Republicans as possible, regardless of how they will vote once in office.

It is for this reason that challenges to incumbents are deemed sacrilegious, no matter how far the incumbent has strayed from conservative principles. And it is for this reason that party leaders defend some of the most liberal incumbents, also known as RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), and assail the Club PAC for helping to elect true conservatives.

Read the full article at the WSJ.

 

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