Tragedy and Choices: After Scalia, the Case for Cruz (Sowell reverses course)

American Spectator ^ | 2.15.16 | Thomas Sowell

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Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year's primary election campaigns, the death of a giant - Justice Antonin Scalia - suddenly overshadows all of that.

The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a President of the United States, just one of whose many powers is the power to nominate justices of the Supreme Court.

Justice Scalia's passing would be a great loss at any time. But at this crucial juncture in the history of the nation - with 5-to-4 Supreme Court decisions determining what kind of country America will be - Scalia's death can be catastrophic in its consequences, depending on who is chosen to be his successor.

Given the advanced ages of other justices, the next president is likely to have enough vacancies to fill to be able to shape the future of the court that helps shape the future of America.

Already many people are complaining that the America they grew up in, and loved, is being changed into something they can barely recognize. Record numbers are renouncing their American citizenship.

Meanwhile, people with high level experience in the military and in the intelligence services are warning us against extreme dangers in a world where our adversaries' military power and aggressiveness are increasing,

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Senator Ted Cruz has been criticized in this column before, and will undoubtedly be criticized here again. But we can only make our choices among those actually available, and Senator Cruz is the one who comes to mind when depth and steadfastness come to mind.

As someone who once clerked for a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he will know how important choosing Justice Scalia's replacement will be. And he has the intellect to understand much more.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

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Cruz OpEd: John Roberts Should Be A Quick Confirm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3396866/posts

[kiryandil]

It's too bad there's a dearth of ideologues amongst the conservative Federal judges.

But that's the price you have to pay for actual thought...

[digger48]

I knew Sowell was one of those that wrote the anti-Trump manifesto in National Review, but I guess I missed where he dissed Cruz.

[DoughtyOne]

Nice graphic...

[Bubbette]

Many, many conservatives were fooled by Justice Roberts.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

He used to support Walker. He is a person of principle and therefore you will find that he criticizes everyone from time to time. No one is perfect, not even Sowell. He is brilliant, however, and I usually agree with him. I did not agree with him about Walker, though Walker looks less bad now, compared to some others.

[LibFreeUSA]

If we don’t stop the illegals and the muslim immigration, its NOT GOING TO MATTER ONE TWIT who’s on the Supreme Court!!!!!!

[napscoordinator]

Too funny. So we have to ignore all the negatives and vote for Ted because of the supreme Court.....not a chance. Trump will pick great justices too.

[usafa92]

Thomas Sowell, another “great” conservative thinker and writer, unmasked and exposed as just another purveyor of words this election cycle.

[lonestar67]

... Like his pro abortion sister

[optiguy]

You can wish in one hand and sh+t in the other and see which one is fuller.

[JediJones]

An obvious constitutional justification for overturning Obamacare is not any kind of obvious slam dunk.

Clarence Thomas went further off the rails when he said the 1st amendment protected “virtual” child porn.

[JediJones]

Cruz has no negatives.

Trump has more negatives than Swiss Cheese has cheese.

[napscoordinator]

Oh God. Wake the hell up. Being Cruz is a negative. He is the most disliked person on the planet.

[napscoordinator]

Cute.

[jstaff]

How many times have you posted that? Do you get “hit” points for each time?

[frnewsjunkie]

Whoever stops obams from appointing anyone, gets my vote. I think it will come down to the candidates applying the pressure to congress that they’d better stop him this time.. or else. This happens to be more important than any other item so far. Scalia was so perfect for what this country needed, that I don’t know if they can find one equal. But obams is so far gone that he’d do the most damage he could. They cannot let him do this.. it would be the finisher of all we hold dear and there’d be no turning it around... unless we had a coup and everything/everyone was thrown out.. absolutely start over again with the one document.. the Constitution.. a real leader/leaders, and build from there.

[JediJones]

Incorrect. Trump is the most unpopular, disliked politician running on either side of the aisle this year. Time to get over your unrequited man-crush, remove the beer goggles and stop lying to protect your Trumpy hunny.