Conservative Victory: Kevin McCarthy Quits

Second "Young Gun" down.

Rod Note: I just want to stress, for those conservatives who want to drop out, give up the fight, take their toys and go home, start a third party, whatever: the three members of that third party, no matter how big a phone booth it met in, could not have forced Kevin McCarthy out of this race, nor Nancy Pelosi and then John Boehner out of the Speaker’s chair.

Trying to get 150 million people pointed in the same direction is hard work. But when you get there, it’s the stuff of which civilizations are made. Whiners don’t make civilizations: they lose them.

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by Rod D. Martin
October 8, 2015

Second "Young Gun" down: quite suddenly today, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy quit the Speaker's race, to which he had been anointed by the Republican Establishment.

There are far worse Republicans than McCarthy. But McCarthy is not the sort of replacement for John Boehner who would make any sense to the people who drove Boehner out. In McCarthy's own words, "If we're going to unite, we …