-By Warner Todd Huston
On the November 11 broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News commentator Bernie Goldberg claimed that conservatives can never win an election for President and the real RINOS are the Tea Partiers who care only about their “rigid ideology” instead of the Republican Party itself.
Goldberg was on with O’Reilly warning conservatives and tea partiers that if they push for a conservative presidential candidate in 2016 then Hillary Clinton will easily win the White House. Goldberg insisted that conservatives and tea partiers should throw away their principals and vote for a mushy moderate like Chris Christie.
Not only that but he called the “hard right” the real RINOs (Republican In Name Only):
But you know what? The real RINOs are the real people in the tea party and on the hard right, because they have made it clear over and over again that their allegiance is not to the Republican party but to their particular brand of conservatism, so they’re the RINOs
So, according to Goldberg, in order to *win*, conservatives should just forget all about what they believe in and just let the left-leaning GOP establishment rule over them.It makes one wonder why one should care about anything, doesn’t it?
But Goldberg accidentally swerved close to a truth, here. In fact, the tea partiers and the conservatives really are the “real RINOs.” After all, the GOP has always been in thrall to the left-leaning establishment and conservatives are anything but left leaning. So, if the GOP is essentially a soft Democrat Party, that really does mean that conservatives are the RINOs!
Think about that!
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TumblrWarner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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