Posted on 04/12/2016 4:46:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
>The world’s greatest intellectual, Thomas Sowell, ph.D
Really?
>In Donald Trump, people are electing Barack Hussein Obama again with less experience and knowledge then the current idiot/phony in office.
In what way(s)? DT has/is running a successful biz, has hired, paid employees, etc.
Where’d we get this idea that the Presidency requires these ‘great/high’ expectations? In *my* copy of the Constitution, the position requires VERY little experience, let alone time (outside of CiC, IMO...and only if/when at war [the latter we’re currently in no mindset to win. My $.02]).
‘Bout damn time we got someone outside of an ivy-league lawyer/etc.
I have been an admirer of Thomas Sowell’s work ever since he came on the scene in the 1960s under the tutelage of Milton Friedman and William Buckley. I have followed him closely through the past fifty years, bought many of his books, read a lot of his newspaper columns, and listened to many TV and radio interviews. I generally agree with his economic and societal opinions. However, at this point in time, in both his old age and mine, I have found that I must part company with him on the matter of the election of Donald Trump. Further, it is puzzling to see him rant and rave about Trump in ways that are nonsensical, frivolous, and downright ridiculous. I attribute the same sort of intellectual stupidity to Limbaugh, Levin, and many others that I used to respect but no longer follow.
As I see things, the fraudulent elevation (I won’t say “election”) of Hussein Obama, the monster, to the presidency and the willingness of the RINOs to aid and abet this obvious fraud in support of his programs was a pivotal moment in American history. Similar to the “Sack of Rome”, it undermined and destroyed the last vestiges of what remained of the Constitutional Republic of old we all knew and loved and replaced it with a NWO, globalist, UniParty cabal. The Rule of Law is not going, it is already gone. The illegal and illegitimate actions of the US government operating under a lawless tyranny during the entire eight year “reign” of the thug, Hussein, and his Marxocrat minions with the RINOs in league with their corruption and criminality, has totally changed the political landscape.
This new reality is hard to accept for many people, including Sowell, Limbaugh, Levin, and their ilk. They have been shielded from the worst excesses of the collapse due to their financial and social positions. The rest of us, though, the struggling and declining middle class that suffers daily and has been cast aside for the benefit of welfare moochers, illegal aliens, and globalist corporatists, has watched this destruction happen year in and year out, all the while seeing that the blather and bull that the “conservative” punditocracy has shoveled for decades has resulted in nothing but a relentless advance of every leftist evil beyond the mind’s dimensions. I now cannot recognize this country anymore from the one I knew fifty years ago, when I first started reading Sowell. I now live in Sodom and Gomorrah.
We are at a revolutionary moment where the election of someone like Donald Trump to the presidency is the last hope if this country is ever to rise from the ashes. I’m not even sure such a thing is possible anymore. The people who have elected the Marxocrats and their RINO colleagues year after year have destroyed what was once the greatest nation ever conceived by man. We’ve all watched this happen, brick by brick, during the past fifty years. At this point, I will throw in with Trump and his people, giving the electoral process one last shot to try and save this country. If Trump is not elected, then I expect, like it or not, I’ll have to go to the front, shoulder a rifle, and man the barricades in the next Civil War that will surely happen as we descend into total chaos.
Indeed. I would like a wrecking ball in DC and DT can be that wrecking ball. He is not establishment so whatever he does will not suit them I suspect, and just might rescue a Republic in severe decline. It is certainly worth the minimal risk, especially when compared to the possible worst yet to come in this fine example of an administration.
>> They’re fat, rich, empowered and contented, and they don’t want anyone rocking their boat <<
Yep, I guess that seems like a perfect description of the 600,000 Colorado grass-roots folks who voted in the Colorado GOP caucuses.
No. Washington’s republicrats. They’ll see to it that neither Trump nor Cruz gets the nomination.
Bet the farm on it.
I could have written that post...I agree 100%.
> It is certainly worth the minimal risk, especially when compared to the possible worst yet to come in this fine example of an administration.
There’s a lot of clamoring of “What if...?”, where my reply is, “So what?!”.
IMO, they’d have a point IF the GOP/RNC had every a *SLIGHT* record of being on track.
Last time We gave ‘em all 3, they saddled us with TSA, NSA, DHS, NCLB, TARP, etc.
Hell, we have/had some in the running today who is/are/were foisting Common Core, TPP/TPA, 6x Visa increase, ‘dreamers’/amnesty....more govt, more govt MORE govt!
We haven’t a Republic for over 100yrs., yet (again), THIS election is the MOST IMPORTANT...*EVER*. Yet, DT would be *the* tipping-point to ‘the fall’? P-L-E-A-S-E. Govt of and by my @ss!
‘Bout time we had a (bit of a) shake-up. The current process obviously doesn’t work.
Isn’t it obvious, Dr. Sowell?
The elites are ignoring the voice of the people no matter WHO we vote for.
The whole, entire process for selecting candidates and thus, indirectly choosing who will be President has become impossibly screwed up.
With regard to primaries, specifically: The electorate is undefined, and therefore of questionable importance. The idea that the NH Republican primary (in which registered Republicans and unenrolled people can vote, as well as Democrats who change their registration at the polling place) is representative of committed, loyal Republicans with an investment in the success of the Party is absurd.
Great tagline btw. :)
Donald Trump is not a successful businessman, His Chapter 11 forays demonstrate that. Donald Trump is a good media personality — that’s all!
Hahahahahaaaa!~ That has got to be one of the STUPIDEST claims I have heard yet. A $10Billion portfolio of properties and bank accounts seems to be in opposition to that claim. As a SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, Trump has navigated his corporations through whatever it takes to make them successful.TRUMP HAS NEVER FILED BANKRUPTCY.
Maybe you don't know much about business. Teddy Bares love their Lyin' Teddy. They tell lies just as much as he does, and make up stuff to deceive.
Poor Teddy Bares.
Here's a pic from a recent Teddy rally!
“How would the votes stack up had there been only two to vote for?”
From the point of view of democracy, that is the question.
A national close-out Trump vs. Cruz vote would be definitive. I think only registered Republicans should vote. I hate the open primary system.
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