It Is About More Than Winning For The Sake Of Winning For GOP

"Winning for the sake of winning is an excellent short-term tactic, but a lousy long-term strategy. Just look at the consequences of the 2006 congressional elections, when the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress.

A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power. As the party gears up for elections in the fall, it ought to look closely at the losses suffered under a political strategy devoid of principle. Otherwise, it can look forward to a bad case of déjà vu"

Pat Toomey in a WSJ editorial entitled "In Defense of Hunting R.I.N.O's". Toomey is a former Pennsylvania Congressman and President of the Club for Growth

Republicans in Congress must return to true conservative principles in order to regain the people's confidence and trust.

Editor's note: Here's the World Street Journal opinion referred to in this posting by Steve Manning.

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