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Dr. Sowell is making the same fundamental error in divining the actions of the GOPe as most people: He assumes they want to win, and I seriously don’t believe that’s the case. I submit they are playing to lose on purpose.

They don’t want to take the heat from the Press for leading with conservative principles, they know they’ll lose with liberal principles, and they want to keep their sinecures. So, they’ve forged an unholy alliance with the Rats: The GOPe loses on purpose, and the Rats make sure they get to keep their little perks.

They don’t care one whit about the country at large. They are literally losing in order to keep their spots at the cocktail parties.

Not to mention, whether they lose the election or not, they still "win". Almost everything on the 'rats agenda, they can get behind, That includes gun grabbing. After all, it won't affect them if the Second Amendment rights of regular Americans are abrogated. Just ask Bloomberg-he sticks his nose into the affairs of other states in order to grab guns, but still has an entourage of armed security, and I'd bet money that he personally owns guns. The GOP is no longer the party of small government, they haven't opposed CommieCare one bit in any meaningful way-I don't even give them credit anymore for voting against it, since they knew the 'rats had the votes to pass it, and it wasn't going to affect them anyway-yes I'm that cynical regarding the GOP now. They constantly send Obama budgets just as he asked for them, they allowed him, some even got on board with him, to turn the military into a socially engineered farce. Other than Cruz, Mike Lee, Jeff Sessions, and a couple of others, they haven't mounted any real opposition to a thing Obama's done, instead, they mounted opposition to those who took a stand for conservative principles. In all these decades, they've never made a meaningful move to repeal Roe v Wade.

They get to DC, collect their money and perks, make connections in order to fatten their bank accounts, and mouth a few conservative platitudes when they're up for re-election, and that's it. Almost every one of them leaves DC, when they finally leave, much richer than when they arrived there. That's all getting elected means to them.

At least the 'rats have a few "true believers", even if what they believe in is Communism (with themselves as the elite leadership). They fight down and dirty to get their agenda passed. The only big item they haven't won so far is gun control, and they're chipping away at that-the tactic of incrementalsm they use so effectively-the way they do until they only need to give it a small nudge for it to fall over the cliff.

As for amnesty for non-American (mostly Mexican, this law will never apply to white European immigrants who outstayed their visas), the 'rats don't even need to fight this battle, the GOP is doing it for them.