[nathanbedford]

I can find not a word to disagree with in this vanity. A few thoughts might be added. A few of these Rinos should be executed in order to encourage the others. Evidently, Mike Lee and his victory in Utah could not teach the rest of the party a lesson. Too many of them think they can do what John McCain did, run to the right, declare the "damn fence must be built," gain reelection and veer to the left.

Bill Bennett just terminated his morning radio show the main thrust of which was that we ought to be very reticent about terminating Rinos because we need every Senate vote we can get. This was echoed by Ann Coulter who has been flirting with Rinos for quite a while now.

Concededly, the Senate is a very difficult place to enforce discipline along party lines. Nevertheless, it must be done. The shameful exercise of Senate Rinos running to the microphones to declare that the efforts of Mike Lee and Ted Cruz , which had not yet begun, could not possibly succeed were unforgivable treachery. Not only did they doom the efforts to fail but they cut the moral ground out from under those who wanted to defund Obamacare by suggesting that the whole effort was somehow illegitimate and by suggesting that Obama's obdurancy in defending Obamacare even at the cost of shutting down the government was somehow legitimate. Somehow because of these Rinos, the issue became why would Ted Cruz want to shut down the government?

That sort of treachery means that you do not even have a party. That disagreement was not over tactics that disagreement was over fundamental understanding of the role of government. The Rinos flunked the test. Worse, it was an effort by the establishment of the Republican Party to neuter or even destroy Ted Cruz before he could become a viable presidential candidate.

In addition to defunding Obamacare the author raises the issue of amnesty. These two issues together with abortion and raising taxes (making 4) should be the absolute acid test which, if flunked, disqualifies any candidate from Republican Party support. That includes incumbents. If the party will not discipline its own than the tea party will.

[C. Edmund Wright]

you make some good points...

[rightwingextremist1776]

Yep...time to pack their bags for them and throw them all out on the front lawn....

Bub bye RINO back stabbers....come wallow in the filthy mud puddle you helped create with the rest of us.....your base.

[ryan71]

Yep, I listened to the Bennett show this morning, as well, and had the same conclusions.

I like Bennett but sometimes he seems surprisingly naive.

[Viennacon]

My estimation (if we dont factor in Cornyn) is that Alexander will be the toughest to take down. Goober is universally known and hated. Cochran will likely retire.

But in TN, Lamar has the ENTIRE establishment behind him in that state. He locked it up quickly. He also fundraises like a maniac. Still, I want to crush him... and then his caddy, the Cork.

And let’s not forget, MCCONNELL!!! The Kewntucky kickback Kid needs to be destroyed, not only because he betrays us daily, but because he might lose that seat to Grimey.