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I usually agree with Sowell but other than Cruz, I don’t think any of the other candidates besides Trump that will fight that hard for the American people and can be elected. Walker has good ideas but can’t generate the emotion from the American people that will push Congress in the right direction - I believe the GOPe will ignore him and likely will hamstring him. The governors are showing themselves to be compromised and Rubio is too green, soft on immigration and shows that he will buckle also.

I think we need someone to take over the bully pulpit and yes, emotions are extremely important in moving people - intellectuals and political junkies like a lot of us on the board are get attracted to Constitutional arguments. Sadly, our educational system under the leftists has gutted and distorted the knowledge and understanding of the Constitution to mean whatever leftist want it to say. A political campaign is not about detailed policy statements, it’s fundamentally a job interview and a sales pitch.

Based on logic rather than emotion, the republican leadership has given me no reason to vote for someone they want. I see Cruz as a great member of congress (lawmaker) but have doubts about him as President (manager of the executive branch) He doesn’t have experience at that size organization though he may be great. And I prefer to have his ideology in congress making laws rather than than unconstitutionally forcing his ideology on the country like Obama or avoiding it.

The republicans need to give me a logical reason to vote for them if they don’t want me to vote on emotion.

Also from a logic point of view I see Trump as having accomplished quit a bit. He has led large organizations (not US government sized but larger and more diverse than anyone else). Worked with friends (partners), and non-friends (suppliers, competitors, governments). He has the skills I’m looking for - able to run a large organization and accomplish goals. I think he understands the constitution and will leave law making to congress while he manages the executive branch. He also has the skills to tell congress what he needs to run the government effectively and to get differing groups to come to agreements (can help congress in doing their job rather than trying to usurp their power as Obama has done)

I’ll admit my support of Trump is driven by emotion. But I can make a logical argument for him and the republicans haven’t given me a logical argument for anyone else (and don’t tell me it’s because Trump gets all the attention).

I may have read the article too quick but I don’t see any logical argument for someone else. It’s mostly a general argument to “give others a chance” and sometimes emotional argument against Trump.

If an anti-Trump argument is to be made, tell me
1) What do you think the job of the president is? Specific tasks and corresponding skills.
2) Where does Trump fail at that job
3) Who has a better overall history at the necessary skills

There’s a good chance we disagree on step 1 and the next 2 don’t matter. I want an executive, not a lawmaker (that’s for congress even though Obama set a different precedent). But if we agree on 1, the next 2 should be easy to discuss for anyone who wants to argue against Trump. And don’t say “some of whom” and “others”. Who specifically has all of the skills?

I agree with someone else who said this is one of the rare times I disagree with Sowell, but I think he completely failed to make his argument to me in this case.