Cruz Control

Townhall.com ^ | 2/20/14 | Thomas Sowell

[txrefugee]

Shame on you, Prof. Sowell, for equating the skunk in the White House with Sen. Cruz, a man of impeccable principle. That is beneath you.

[Pietro]

I respect Dr Sowell's opinion a great deal, but I must defer here, I think he's missing the larger event.

The truth about the shutdown in Oct is being ignored or swept under the rug. What Cruz and the GOP were holding out for, a delay in the implementation of ocare, is in fact what is happening, albeit piece meal and in an unconstitutional, arbitrary fashion.

Cruz' position would have been cleaner, fairer, and constitutional.

That Cruz is showing up the GOP "leadership" to be nothing but lapdogs is not something we didn't already recognize and this vacuum can be identified as one source of the Tea Party.

Thank God someone had the spine to step away from the table and say "This is B3llsh!t".

[Servant of the Cross]

'nails it' ... ?!!!

SAY WHAT?!

Unfortunately, Dr. Sowell could not be more wrong about this!

[PAR]

Of course Sowell is exactly right as usual. I came to the conclusion a couple of years ago that some of the “purists” on this site are democratic trolls seeking to divide and conquer. Not all, but some.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Obama had a track record. Cruz has a track record. Their records are mirror images. There is no comparison. WTH?

[nathanbedford]

Jeopardizing the reelection of current Republican Senators is an act of utter irresponsibility, a high risk with zero benefits to anyone except Ted Cruz -- and the Democrats.

True-if a house and Senate controlled by Boehner and McConnell would actually repeal Obamacare and effectively resist Obama, but history tells us they will not.

When the Republicans had controlling majorities under President Bush they behaved in essentially the same way that they have behaved in the minority under president Obama, except under Bush they were worse because they proactively spent more, borrowed more, regulated more and taxed more when they had the power to behave like Republicans.

Thomas Sowell is wrong because he fails to learn from history. If he had, he would know that merely electing Republicans is not enough, we have done that before, we must pursue the Article V remedies bequeathed to us by the founding fathers and reform Washington-especially including the Republican Party-from the heartland. Ted Cruz is laying the predicate for real reform without which the election of Republicans amounts to little more than a feel-good gesture.

[Joachim]

Sowell is still playing the Grand Old Party's party game--"just get us elected first, THEN we'll fix stuff, we promise."

Cruz recognizes that if he wants to make real changes, he needs more colleagues who owe their seats to the people, not to the establishment, GOP or otherwise. And that if, as a politician, you want move the debate or to have any kind of mandate from the people, you have to stake out a position.

I love Sowell's contributions usually, but he's arguing here for doing the same old thing (voting establishment GOP) while expecting something different (constitutionally principled leadership).

Never worked before.

Won't work this time either.

[Servant of the Cross]

That Cruz is showing up the GOP "leadership" to be nothing but lapdogs is not something we didn't already recognize and this vacuum can be identified as one source of the Tea Party.

Ted Cruz on the Rush Limbaugh program following his 0bamacare filibuster last year ...

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don’t even talk about how to win a fight. There’s no discussion. We talk about, “Hey, let’s get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we’re doing something.” But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you’d be in therapy for a month.

And Washington, look, in both parties you’ve got entrenched politicians who have barely veiled contempt for the American people. I mean they think their voters are gullible rubes, and, you know, you give them a little show vote, you tell ‘em, “Hey, I’m totally with you,” then they go to Washington and they don’t actually do what they say.

[DaveA37]

There is one hell of a difference between Cruz and odumbo. I would support Cruz long before I would the illegal gay some of you call “president”.

At least Cruz has the backbone to meet them head on instead of using lies and deceit while always on vacation. There is NO comparison between the two men, NONE!

[Hostage]

Thomas seems to have had a sub-cranium nut vibrate off its bolt leaving his brains rattled. Get thee to your neurologist pronto Dr. Sowell.

"The most charitable interpretation of Ted Cruz and his supporters is that they are willing to see the Republican Party weakened in the short run, in hopes that they will be able to take it over in the long run, and set it on a different path as a more purified conservative party. Like many political ideas, this one is not new. It represents a political strategy that was tried long ago -- and failed long ago.

In the German elections of 1932, the Nazi party received 37 percent of the vote. They became part of a democratically elected coalition government, in which Hitler became chancellor. Only step by step did the Nazis dismantle democratic freedoms and turn the country into a complete dictatorship.

Comparing Ted Cruz with Adolf Hitler? Are you nuts? Thomas, have you been hypnotized by Media Matters? Are you wanting to live as a pajama boy writer for Salon.com?

Many of us if not most are familiar with how Adolf Hitler came to power. But Ted Cruz will come to the White House with a majority of American support. There is no comparison!

[dontreadthis]

everyone is permitted to be wrong once.
if Cruz gets the nomination, Sowell would be thrilled.

[Gaffer]

I pulled this quote from another thread currently running here on Cruz and the trouble he is causing. It is a quote of Sowell's in the article.

Those causes are not being served when Senator Cruz undermines the election chances of the only political party that has any chance of undoing the disasters that Barack Obama has already inflicted on the nation — and forestalling new disasters that are visible on the horizon.

Frankly, my opinion is that Sowell is suffering from a bad case of "GOPe Status Quo."

It pretty much makes me put him in the same column as a lot of other pundits from whom I really am not inclined to take any advice or counsel.

[cuban leaf]

The british bombing Berlin looked just like the germans bombing London.

They were different, however.

Same thing here.

[Gaffer]

Well, you are just completely wrong, IMO.

I toed that “hold my nose” line long enough, and I’ll not be voting RINO ever again despite what Sowell says.

[Linda Frances]

Letter I sent to Sowell

I’ve always loved reading your work, but you lost me. Answer one question? Tell me how you would stop obama from getting us further and further into debt. When is enough that we do something? $25 trillion? $30? Are we to just give him whatever he wants? The problem is that the rinos won’t confront obama on anything. If they don’t have the courage to hold people accountable ( increasing the debt, IRS scandal, Bengazi, illegally making and changing laws....) then they need to step down and let brave patriots do their jobs. Like you, I have grandchildren who will be slaves of the government trying to pay this off. Don’t you care what you are leaving your grandkids, all children?

Here’s his email address:

schmooze@jewishworldreview.com

[School of Rational Thought]

Sorry, Professor but we need winners not accomodators. The progressive Republicans need to be put on notice and Cruz is doing so. Otherwise, a progressive GOP will think they won on merit.

[JRandomFreeper]

Run conservatives and win. Run liberals and lose. It's really that simple.

/johnny

[SecondAmendment]

Mr. Sowell lost his argument when he stared to include the Nazis.

[harpu]

"SAY WHAT!?"

"Ted Cruz filled a void. But the Republican establishment created the void."