Why Republicans don't articulate their positions well

“... elected Republicans tend to be essentially the second-rate people. People who believe in the free market go into the free market. So it’s the Democrats’ A-Team which in government, against the Republicans’ B-Team, since the Republican’s A-Team is out in the market.”

Thomas Sowell, paraphrasing a book called “The United States of Ambition,” by Alan Ehrenhalt, in the June 2007 issue of the Limbaugh Letter.