Posted on 02/20/2014 4:34:46 AM PST by harpu
Prof Sowell has gotten too comfortable in the beltway.
No, he's comparing Cruz with Hitler's fragmented opposition.
Nails it? You mean he nails Cruz to the cross.
Sowell has been justly excoriated for this column by his previously loyal fans. He needs to issue an apology.
Cruz is not the problem. It is the constant appeasement of the GOPe that is leading this country down the road to tyranny, not Ted Cruz.
Nails it?
If carrying water for Karl Rove is your idea of nailing it, then he did a bang up job.
""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."
Cruz is not trying to weaken the Republican Party, he's trying to strengthen it. A weak, RINO, accomendationist GOP is worthless. Sowell also gets this wrong. The GOP, as currently constituted will not change the direction of the county. The slide into socialist statism will continue. Therefore, if you want to make a U-turn towards freedom, the GOP is not a tool, until it is changed.
Sowell's really off track on this one.
"What such clever strategies overlook is that there can be a point of no return. We may be close to that point of no return, not only with ObamaCare, but also with the larger erosion of personal freedom, of which ObamaCare is just the most visible part."
The GOP, as currently constituted will compromise their way pass the point of no return. Without change, the GOP is worse than worthless.
Did you only read the last sentence? The entire article is a not so subtle hit piece on Cruz. Comparing him to the weak opposition to the Nazis and calling him a divider because he sticks to his principles. The last sentence doesn’t fix the rest of his screed.
“just get us elected first, THEN we’ll fix stuff, we promise.”
When facing an existential threat, it’s not about “fixing stuff”, it’s about preventing the house from burning to the ground. I’ve wrote here before that the only rational grounds for not working to elect whatever Republican can WIN is a lack of recognition of the threat we face. If we knew with 100% certainty that Obama were the Anti-Christ, then no one would argue. He isn’t, but he isn’t too far behind. Look around, our very system of government is under an unprecedented attack.
Your right.
Does Professor Sowell have any evidence that the current republicans in congress have any will, passion, or desire to address the actions of this regime?
Is he advocating that we should be satisfied with their weak condemnations and then WAIT, again, for the time when they have control and say they will do something?
The real question is who is at fault Ted Cruz or the GOP establishment? Of course I see it as being the GOP establishment as they have bent over backwards to ignore conservative principles. But the reality may be that both share the blame. One thing is for sure, a house divided will surely fall. If conservatives are not seeing or experiencing the fall, wake up. We are falling and the speed is accelerating.
Plus your talking about divide and conquer? What do you think the GOPe is doing to the Tea Party? Sowell is a good man but completely wrong in this instance.
BUMP!
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I see another factor in Sowell’s writing - - - I see an intellectual paralysis seeping into his usually well-reasoned writings.
” - - - Senator Ted Cruz has not yet reached the point where he can make policy, rather than just make political trouble. - - - “
The above quote from this thread’s article has two main topics relative to Senator Cruz, and by extension , ANYONE that tries to change the status quo.
The first topic is vague: “- - - not yet reached the point where he can make policy - - - “, as if there is a timely procedure to be followed.
If Sowell objects to an elected US Senator who stands on Principle instead of following his timely procedure, than what must Sowell think of us, the unelected taxpayers?
We, THE PEOPLE, must be held by Sowell to be incapable of Principled action.
My conclusion is that Sowell is an Elitist, an Elitist dedicated to Conserving the RINO Timely Procedure Method.
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The second topic is more specific: “ - - - make political trouble. - - - .”
Here Sowell shows his basic fear: Abolition of the Hallowed RINO Way.
Sowell is a Loyalist to the way things are now.
Although Sowell claims to be upset that Senator Obama lied as a Candidate, (Imagine! A political candidate actually telling even just one lie in order to con us out of our votes! Who knew?), his concern seems to be that any change to the RINO Way would somehow help Obama.
Sowell’s above apparent logic is irrational, but expected from one whose motivation is irrational fear.
Sowell, like most RINOs have placed their RINO Wing of the Republican Party above the Principles of the United States of America.
Sowell is a Political Party first, Country be damned, RINO Loyalist.
Defend yourself Sowell, because I am calling you out!
DONT TREAD ON ME
How else is a motivated individual going to work into a position to execute their agenda?
The charge says more about the person making it.
I understood that but in bringing up Hitler, Sowell draws a parallel to the Hitler Era. When comparing Cruz to Nazi Germany, Sowell goes off the deep end. It shows he has lost his sense of proportion.
Sowell sees a weakened GOP but he fails to see how winning seats in the Senate under the current GOP leadership is an advantage. It is clearly not.
The current GOP leadership are big government lovers and growers same as the democrats. A GOP Senate under McConnell will not repeal Obamacare, will not stop increasing the debt ceiling, will not defend the 2nd and 4th amendments, will not back House impeachment of Obama for lawlessness, will not reverse court appointments made under Reid’s nuclear change of rules by defunding these courts, will not enact substantial and much needed tax reform, because they are complicit and because Obama will veto. A McConnell-Boehner Congress will bide their time and then support Romney, Christie, Jeb Bush or any number of unprincipled mealy mouth false conservatives for 2016 and end up losing to Hillary Clinton. This course is INSANE.
The only sane course is to take back the GOP for the 30 million + strong conservative GOP base, the 25 million + strong conservative leaning independents, the 6 million + strong Perot blue collar GOP conservatives (who sat out in 2012 and handed Romney a defeat), the 5 million + strong Reagan democrats, and the wake effect of a clear winner.
The current GOP leadership will NEVER be winners, NEVER. This is why Sowell needs to see his neurologist.
I usually have a lot of respect for Sowell but I’m not buying this one. I do not believe Ted Cruz is a Barack in waiting. I do think he’s a purist and right now we need a few purists to cleanse the republican party of the quislings who are ruining it.
Those republicans just voted to take the borrowing cap completely off. And they are pushing amnesty.
No, the existential thread comes from liberal republicans first. Once they are gone, then the existential threat is gone.
/johnny
I've met Ted Cruz several times before he rose through the lime light and got himself elected in Texas. AND, I do believe in him but Sowell is foretelling the future of how the media (for the RATs) and GOPe is going to take Cruz apart at the next level beyond the present. Sowell's words, although painful, speak to what Senator Cruz (and his disciples) are going to have to bare.
Trust me, I don't like Sowell's article but because of who he is, and what he has written in the past, I continue to read it over and over looking for what Sowell is really trying to warn conservatives about.
Then how can you say he "nailed it"?
His fear is that the GOPe status quo will become the Democrate status quo, as in a rerun of 2008, after which the Dems ram through yet an Obamacare equivalent for a different sector of the economy.
Slow walking is all we can do. It started with the imposition of a federal income tax a century ago. Reagan's term was a long slow walk to ruin. He abolished no cabinet departments and tacked on amnesty. Clinton increased the speed. Bush II increased it a little further. Obama installed a moving sidewalk. At this rate, we will begin teleporting ourselves to ruin instantaneously.
I am not going to buy that line again
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