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Now Is No Time to Be Voting for President Based on Emotion
National Review ^ | September 15, 2015 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 09/15/2015 12:09:46 PM PDT by Steelfish

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1 posted on 09/15/2015 12:09:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3336954/posts

Now is no time to be re-posting articles already posted this morning.


2 posted on 09/15/2015 12:10:29 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Steelfish

One of the few times I’ve disagreed with Sowell.


3 posted on 09/15/2015 12:12:07 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Steelfish

Yeah! You Conservative Tea Party types will vote the way we want you to, after all, we know how to run this county!

So, let’s review — What, exactly, has a majority in the House and Senate got us with your “logical” candidates?

How about the Corker bill, which our leadership basically gave Obama the ability to force the IRAN deal without 50% of the vote? Yes, that’s right readers, our REPUBLICAN leaders GAVE OBAMA the ability to go around congressional approval for the Iran deal.....

Oh, trust us, vote for the pig in a poke.


4 posted on 09/15/2015 12:14:48 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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Intellectuals like Sowell and VDH are going to have a hard time getting their minds around a guy like Trump.

Trump support isn't pure emotion but it can't be understood only using one's mind.

5 posted on 09/15/2015 12:16:07 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: Orange Lives Matter.)
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To: Steelfish

Vote Jeb or die!


6 posted on 09/15/2015 12:16:09 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: SoothingDave

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.


7 posted on 09/15/2015 12:17:24 PM PDT by JMS
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Bump


8 posted on 09/15/2015 12:17:32 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Steelfish

Now Is No Time to Be Voting for President Based on Emotion

OK so when IS IT TIME to vote based on emotion?

BOOB!


9 posted on 09/15/2015 12:17:49 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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I am not emotional. I am not voting for losers like one of that harem of whores for the CoC and the GOPe have to offer.

My pledge:

I will, without emotion, vote for Trump!

See ya on primary day suckas!


10 posted on 09/15/2015 12:18:08 PM PDT by dforest
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To: RoosterRedux; Sybeck1

Can’t we examine the evident Trumpoonery-Buffonery that is being dished out by a faux conservative who has no clue and cannot tell us how he plans to identify, locate, detain, and deport over 11 million illegals to over 20 foreign countries presumably using planes, buses, and ships,in the face of a likely rainstorm of court injunctions? And has no problem with reverse discrimination; gay marriage, funding Planned Parenthood,and abortion? What are we supposed to be? Trumbots?

Don’t we have a true conservative who is also electable like Ted Cruz?


11 posted on 09/15/2015 12:18:45 PM PDT by Steelfish
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"One of the few times I’ve disagreed with Sowell."

Trump is causing the masks to fall off.

12 posted on 09/15/2015 12:19:47 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Tom? Get stuffed. You and your GOP or Die BS got us to this point with the help of the other talking head frauds who scream conservatism right up until the elections and then say “Oh just forget everything we said and vote for the people we trashed for 2/4 years.

Some of us see you have no more clothes than The Emperor when the chips are really down.

Here;s an idea...Go help Levin find his last inch. Apparently it’s galactic in it’s size and he can’t seem to find it.


13 posted on 09/15/2015 12:20:03 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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National ‘GOP-E’ Review moving closer to 1000 anti-Trump articles.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 12:20:06 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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Emotions? Not Trump, he has specifics, what about your candidate that is owned by a super pac???

Specific Details:

Secure the border, keep America safe.

Bring back jobs from China and Mexico.

Re-energize America’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Preserve Social Security and Medicare via Strong US growth
(not by raising taxes)

Make America energy independent.

Rebuild our Military and world-standing.
(not slow them down)

Re-establish trust with our allies.

Undo all America-harming Obama policies/deals.

Require countries we protect to contribute financially instead of taxing America.

Rebuild our roads, bridges,electrical grid, airports.

Support our military personnel ad veterans.

Stop corporations from moving jobs out of America.

Restore national pride and the American dream.

Stop countries from stealing our military technology.

Reduce our crushing national debt.

Prohibit countries from manipulating their currencies so US companies can compete.


15 posted on 09/15/2015 12:20:56 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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The fundamental error that Dr. Sowell is making here is this. He is correct about the appeal of Hitler, Peron & Obama. But he totally misses the point, why many would rally to someone who is showing the ability to counter the mob appealing demagogues, with charisma of his own. It is not the charismatic that is evil, it is the misuse of charisma to destroy a people's heritage.

What Trump is rallying is the desire to fight back against the demagogues who are destroying our heritage. Why tie our hands by automatically rejecting someone who shows he knows how to fight back? Trump is talking about restoring traditional America. Hitler, Peron & Obama were preaching "new orders."

Here is my piece on Obama's adoption of Hitlerian tactics, which includes not only what he was doing, but to what purpose he was doing it--an absolutely essential distinction, that Dr. Sowell ignores. (Leftwing Chickens Coming Home.)

16 posted on 09/15/2015 12:21:50 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: BereanBrain

EXACTLY


17 posted on 09/15/2015 12:22:01 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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I can’t believe Sowell equated Trump with Hitler and Obama.

W.T.F.


18 posted on 09/15/2015 12:22:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: RoosterRedux; Steelfish

My theory is that if Trump can’t survive the coming political Armageddon from our already transformed country, then who among our most conservative candidates can?

Certainly not Cruz, after the GOP unites with Wall Street and the George Soros funded interest groups join forces to take out Trump, who has become a movement, then anyone else who survives is done, or else is a dupe deemed acceptable to the progressive GOP. Who will fill that bill, with Trump gone? Jeb, or Kasich? Milquetoast.


19 posted on 09/15/2015 12:23:45 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: x1stcav

What Sowell doesn’t get is that we’ve lost our ability to choose if Trump’s run out of the race. If he gets out, the establishment has it.

And 1775 probably wasn’t the best time to ditch the Brits either. Should have been other less deadly options. But there wasn’t, and there’s not.


20 posted on 09/15/2015 12:23:46 PM PDT by Kenny
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