SAY WHAT?!
Unfortunately, Dr. Sowell could not be more wrong about this!
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.
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".
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.
Obama had a track record. Cruz has a track record. Their records are mirror images. There is no comparison. WTH?
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.
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.
"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!
everyone is permitted to be wrong once.
if Cruz gets the nomination, Sowell would be thrilled.
The british bombing Berlin looked just like the germans bombing London.
They were different, however.
Same thing here.
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
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.
Mr. Sowell lost his argument when he stared to include the Nazis.
Prof Sowell has gotten too comfortable in the beltway.
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 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.
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 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.
The problem is, if the Republicans win this November, which of our current "leaders" will the one(s) to stand up?
Boehner? Is this stand up comedy?
We have a litany of non leaders there.