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Seems “celebrity” has gotten to Sarah Palin.
I’m so sick of these unendorsements. These media types should pick a candidate and advocate for him/her rather than picking a candidate to tear down.
Use to respect you Dr Sowell. This article demonstrates you did not listen at all merely seized on this speech as a starting point to validate your per-existing opinions. You not interested in the Truth here Dr, you are interested in promoting your personal political agenda. It time more of you in the “Conservative” media Establishment get out of your cozy little think tanks and ivory tower offices and start living in the real world with us peasant.
Transcript: Sarah Palin’s Iowa speech
Thank you, Iowa. Thank you so much. The sign that says, âThank you, Sarah,â no, I thank you. You are what keeps me going, keeps so many of us going. Your love of country keeps us going. Thank you so much. Iowa, you are good people. You are all good people who are here. Thank you.
It is an honor to be in the Heartland sharing this Labor Day weekend with you. And I thank you so much for the invitation, to these organizers who put so much work into all this. Itâs so good to see the O4P and C4P people here today. Last night was fun â getting to run into some of you at that restaurant and to see so many different
demographics represented and so many different states all across our great nation. We got to gather together last night â different demographics, different political parties even represented â and Todd reminded me as we walked out of that room, he said, âSee, weâre not celebrating âred Americaâ or âblue America.â Weâre celebrating red, white, and blue America.â
So, what brought us here today out in this field? Why arenât we catching a Cyclones game, or watching the Hawkeyes perhaps, or grilling up some venison and corn-on-the-cob, maybe some caribou with some friends on this Labor Day weekend? What brought us together is a love of country. And we see that America is hurting. Weâre not willing to just sit back and watch her demise through some âfundamental transformationâ of the greatest country on earth. Weâre here to stop that transformation and to begin the restoration of the country that we love.
Weâre here because America is at a tipping point. America faces a crisis. And itâs not a crisis like perhaps a Midwest summer storm â the kind that moves in and hits hard, but then it moves on. No, this kind will relentlessly rage until we do restore all that is free and good and right about America. Itâs not just fear of a double dip recession. And itâs not even the shame of a credit downgrade for the first time in U.S. history. Itâs deeper than that. This is a systemic crisis due to failed policies and incompetent leadership. And weâre going to speak truth today. It may be hard-hitting, but weâre going to speak truth today because we need to start talking about what hasnât worked, and weâre going to start talking about what will work for America. We will talk truth.
Now, some of us saw this day coming. It was three years ago on this very day that I spoke at the GOP Convention where I was honored to be able to accept the nomination for vice president that night. And in my speech I asked America: âWhen the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades awayâ¦.what exactly is [Barack Obamaâs] plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger, and take more of your money, and give you more orders from Washington, and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.â I spoke of this, but back then it was only my words that you had to go by. Now you have seen the proof yourself. Candidate Obama didnât have a record while he was in office, but President Obama sure does, and thatâs why weâre here today.
Candidate Obama pledged to fundamentally transform America. And for all the failures and the broken promises, thatâs the one thing he has delivered on. Weâve transformed from a country of hope to one of anxiety. Today, one in five working-age men are out of work. One in seven Americans are on food stamps. Thirty percent of our mortgages are underwater. In parts of Michigan and California, theyâre suffering from unemployment numbers that are greater than during the depths of the Great Depression. Barack Obama promised to cut the deficit in half, and instead he turned around and he tripled it. And now our national debt is growing at $3 million a minute. Thatâs $4.25 billion a day.
President Obama, is this what you call âwinning the futureâ? I call it losing â losing our country and with it the American dream. President Obama, these people â these Americans â feel that âfierce urgency of now.â But do you feel it, sir?
The Tea Party was borne of this urgency. Itâs the same sense of urgency that propelled the Sons of Liberty during the Revolution. Itâs the same sense of urgency that propelled the Abolitionists before the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th Century. The Tea Party Movement is part of this noble American tradition. This movement isnât simply a political awakening; itâs an American awakening. And itâs coming from ordinary Americans, not the politicos in the Beltway. No, itâs you who grow our food; you run our small businesses; you teach our children; you fight our wars. We are always proud of America. We love our country in good times and in bad, and we never apologize for America.
That is why the far leftâs irresponsible and radical policies awakened a sleeping America so that we finally understood what it was that we were about to lose. We were about to lose the blessings of liberty and prosperity. So, the working men and women of this country, you got up off your couch, you came down from the deer stand, you came out of the duck blind, you got off the John Deere, and we took to the streets, and we took to the town halls, and we ended up at the ballot box. And as much as the media wants you to forget this, Tea Party Americans won an electoral victory of historic proportions in November. We the people, we rose up and we rejected the leftâs big government agenda. We donât want it. We canât afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.
I like Thomas Rowell but I don’t think he has been listening to the same person many of Americans have heard loud and clear.
To me the only candidate who has talked that talk and walked that walk is Cruz. Trump currently talks some of the talk, and he may walk the walk, or he may not. The rest, who cares? Democrat or Republican establishment, that train is going over the same cliff. Only difference is how soon, how fast, and who's the nominal engineer. The only hope is to derail it. Cruz will try; Trump may accomplish enough through chaos. The rage and hysteria of the government/media complex toward either will be damn entertaining.
Thomas Sowell is 85 years old. I don’t listen to him for who I’m going to vote for. But I absolutely love listening to him for everything else. I’ve gotten bored with TV so for the past month or so, I’ve been streaming Sowell interviews and Firing Line appearances to my TV. He is an absolute joy to listen to on pretty much any topic. Clear, direct, intelligent, funny.
People like Thomas Sowell live on some cloud where everything is perfect. We live in a world where we have to fight for our existence. What has Thomas Sowell ever done besides pontificate?
I think many of the responses to both this thread and the previous one strongly support Dr. Sowell’s thesis.
There are very few comments on the order of, “I think he is wrong about (this contention) because of (analysis using facts).”
There are many comments on the order of, “He is horrible because he disagrees with me.”
But I listened in vain for any evidence or logic that would provide a reason to vote for Hillary Clinton for the office of President of the United States.
But I listened in vain for any evidence or logic that would provide a reason to vote for Bernie Sanders for the office of President of the United States.
But I listened in vain for any evidence or logic that would provide a reason to vote AGAINST Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States.
Rational thought and logic are SOOOOOOOOO yesterday! We are a nation of children, ruled by our emotions. May make that my new tagline...
This is exactly how I feel. In all the thousands of pro-Trump comments here on FR and elsewhere, and all the articles I’ve read, I read in vain for a coherent explanation of why anyone should vote for Trump. Like Dr. Sowell says, if anyone could give their reasons it should be someone like Palin, but as someone helpfully posted her speech above, there’s nothing there.
It’s all emotion, no reason. Nothing rebutting the evidence presented showing that Trump has an anti-conservative worldview and has demonstrated such with his actions all through his life. Nothing laying out a persuasive case on why a President Trump would be good for America from a conservative perspective. I invite FReepers who support him to make this case, if they think they can (I am very skeptical.)
Aaaaaaand Dr. Sowell goes under the bus! LOL
Again stopped reading here. The Donald has just as much specificity as any other candidate does. He's got his plan outlines for various things up on his site. Only a fool would deign to write an uber specific "plan" at this point considering that nobody knows what the make up of the congress will nor what the world situation will be like. Sowell just has sour grapes.