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Thomas Sowell On Why We Must Rally Behind Ted Cruz to Avoid a Train Wreck
Moon Battery ^ | 2/18/2016 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 02/18/2016 1:24:14 PM PST by conservativejoy

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To: 20yearsofinternet

What? His campaign has been hailed, even by his opponents, as THE MOST organized and thought out.

But keep on wishful thinking.


21 posted on 02/18/2016 1:53:24 PM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: ronnie raygun

“No blame for your black brother...”

WTF does Sowell’s skin color have to do with this?


22 posted on 02/18/2016 1:55:17 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: ronnie raygun

Yes! Hannity says he isn’t endorsing, but good God, it’s obvious he’s a Trump lover.


23 posted on 02/18/2016 1:55:46 PM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: conservativejoy

“Scalia’s untimely death underscores why it is essential for everyone who wants to arrest America’s slide into ruin to consolidate behind Ted Cruz before it is too late.”

Consolidating behind an utterly unelectable candidate will get us absolutely nowhere and elect the Democrat.


24 posted on 02/18/2016 1:55:48 PM PST by Pravious
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To: conservativejoy

If Trump was agent sent in to destroy he’s done a good job driving up his negatives so he looks lower than Hillary by the Fall.


25 posted on 02/18/2016 1:57:54 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS:REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: conservativejoy

If Trump was agent sent in to destroy he’s done a good job driving up his negatives so he looks lower than Hillary by the Fall.

The media is hyping a Trump versus the Pope conflict now...


26 posted on 02/18/2016 1:59:32 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS:REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: DaveyB

The more strange thing is that Jim R allows it to continue even though he supports Cruz.

To argue policy is one thing, but the nastiness is out of hand the last couple of months!!


27 posted on 02/18/2016 2:08:09 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: 20yearsofinternet

considering the scumbags he surrounds himself with.......Like the wedding list of guests of frump’s.


28 posted on 02/18/2016 2:11:46 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: DaveyB

Great post. What the hell is happening here. It concerns me to no end the amount FR support there is for a Billionaire version of Michael Moore.


29 posted on 02/18/2016 2:14:14 PM PST by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent smackdown.


30 posted on 02/18/2016 2:19:42 PM PST by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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To: Pravious

Unelectable?? LOL...The guy won Iowa campaigning against ethanol subsidies. I’m still at a loss how it is Trump supporters think a candidate who is a constitutional illiterate is more electable than a man that is not only a Constitutional lawyer but has argued and won cases before the Supreme Court in favor conservativism.


31 posted on 02/18/2016 2:22:05 PM PST by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: knarf
The ‘normal logic of elections, candidates, conservative and even America .... are no longer valid
Say what you will about Trump, he has single handedly done MORE to transform America than zero

Zero has not transformed America ... get THAT through your thick skulls .... he has awakened a sleeping giant and a leader has emerged from the sleepers


Trump has done nothing but talk (ahem and support democrats), while Obama has been busily transforimg American into the weak enslaved people he believes we should be.

No one since the founding of this country has done more to transform America:
Thanks to Obamacare the government now has the right to tell citizens what they have to buy. Common Core threatens to make the next generation nothing but brainwashed liberals barely capable of reading their welfare checks or signing their name. Obama has put the United States in an extremely weak position with our enemies. His Secretary of State is responsible for possibly an intelligent leak the size of which you could sail an aircraft carrier through. He is responsible for running guns to the drug gangs. He has destroyed the economy and increased unemployment and labor-force participation rate to numbers that haven't been scene since the depression. He's has doubled the national debt increased spending and taxes.

You can bet your sweet cinnamon buns Obama has transformed America. He's made acts of treason and incompetence the norm in a way never seen before. These accomplishment should serve as testaments to the destructive force of government. It's power must be shrunk the shackles must be released from the American people. I don't know if that's “normal” logic or not, but that is the truth as I see it.

If Trump thinks he can waltz in and use the power of government to make America great again he will fail. If we have a president who can restore freedom to the citizens of America will this country have a future as a free state.

If FR is any example of Trumps supporters he has formed a gaggle of people who are interested in him, not the cause of Liberty, not the fight for freedom. Anyone who stands in the way of Trump, not matter their love for this country or Liberty must be destroyed. That's been his policy so far.

If he wins I will vote for him in the general election and if that happens I will be happy to be proven wrong if it means my children and grandchildren will be free.

32 posted on 02/18/2016 2:24:18 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: DaveyB
.....”This weird hysteria has infected this forum that was once a haven for conservatives but now has been taken over by a swarm advocating for a life-long liberal and eager to defame their former champions of conservative philosophy”......

Might be because many of them are ‘accustomed to’ being led by a leader ...............too many people are perfectly happy to have an authority over them they can honor and adore.....preferably with the appearance of being strong and or powerful.... If it's not God first and foremost man is wired to create an alternative...oftentimes a figurehead of some sort or another. Trump fills the 'political' side of that 'need'......someone outside themselves that can promise the moon and they 'believe' can and will deliver it.........it's never wise to put faith in any man but people do it just the same.

33 posted on 02/18/2016 2:24:52 PM PST by caww
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To: MNJohnnie

Agreed.


34 posted on 02/18/2016 2:27:14 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: conservativejoy
The voice of reason.... ...."If ever there was a time to choose a president with depth, rather than glitter or glibness, this is it..... Whatever the achievements of anyone in some other field, we cannot afford 'a novice' in the complex world of politics and government at a time of grave dangers at home and internationally.... That rules out Trump,.... not that he would stand a chance in the general election anyway."

The man our nation needs.....President Ted Cruz!


35 posted on 02/18/2016 2:34:11 PM PST by caww
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To: conservativejoy

He’s right. Cruz isn’t without his warts as a candidate, but he is the best of the bunch. Hands down.


36 posted on 02/18/2016 2:35:45 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: ronnie raygun

Perhaps the most ill informed or racist post of the young year. Did I mention it was stupid?


37 posted on 02/18/2016 2:37:25 PM PST by Paradox (Can't wait for stupid season to end.)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

....”If Trump thinks he can waltz in and use the power of government to make America great again he will fail”.....

That’s not what he’s after......he wants to oversee the politicians and share in the “take” who have kept him outside their game.....he wants in on the pie. ...and no doubt will make certain it’s spread around to “work with them”.


38 posted on 02/18/2016 2:37:45 PM PST by caww
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To: DaveyB
Red flags and bright neon signs appear when "conservatives" abandon a Thomas Sowell because he isn't a Trump purist. The list of conservative outcasts grows.
39 posted on 02/18/2016 2:38:10 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Raycpa

I think folks like Thomas have a normalcy bias towards thinking people are smarter than they really are.

Even I didn’t expect so many normally level headed folks to pull for a RINO like Trump.


40 posted on 02/18/2016 2:39:12 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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