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To: SeekAndFind
Shame on Sowell for writing this.

Has a goofy thesis that being a Governor is good work, US Senator is a bum.

Note to Sowell: The two jobs are different.

Also appears to believe that "accomplishments" i.e., laws, are what we should measure politicians with.

I believe the opposite is needed; a candidate should be judged on his restraint and his ability to rescind all of the million laws we already have.

That would mean applying the Constitution, and doing little else, a la Coolidge.

The reason the conservatives lose all the time is that they always stick it to their own. They never praise them.

Can you imagine a Rat writing the same sort of article about other Rats? Neither can I.

13 posted on 04/21/2015 8:17:09 AM PDT by caddie
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To: caddie

>>Has a goofy thesis that being a Governor is good work, US Senator is a bum.<<

Hardly. He’s simply making the point that Governors have more experience at actually governing than do Senators, and especially first-term Senators. I think Rubio might make a great President someday, but he’s showing some remarkable political ineptitude in the early going.

The Senators have proven that they know how to get elected, but they haven’t yet proven that they know how to move effective legislation. Governors, at least respected ones, usually have.

That doesn’t mean a Senator won’t make an excellent President, but the risk is definitely greater that they will misread the politics as to what can and can’t be done at any particular time regarding the issue at hand.


18 posted on 04/21/2015 8:58:50 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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