Posted on 01/22/2016 5:11:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Former governor Sarah Palin is an intelligent person, contrary to how liberals have tried to portray her. So it seemed to me that, if anybody could explain why they were promoting the candidacy of Donald Trump, it would be Governor Palin.
But I listened in vain for any evidence or logic that would provide a reason to vote for Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States. There were lots of ringing assertions, just as in Trump's own speeches, but no convincing facts or demonstrable reasons.
After all these months, no coherent plans have emerged from the rhetoric of "The Donald"— just sweeping boasts about all the things he says he will achieve. But boasts about the unknown future are hardly reassuring.
However puzzling the fervent support for Donald Trump may be today, given how little basis there is for it, such blind faith is not unique in history. Other dire or desperate times have produced other charismatic leaders to whom desperate people have turned, with hopes of deliverance.
Trump is certainly different from establishment Republicans, but it that enough?
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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, “Thank you, Sarah,†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. It’s so good to see the O4P and C4P people here today. Last night was fun – 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 – different demographics, different political parties even represented – and Todd reminded me as we walked out of that room, he said, “See, we’re not celebrating ‘red America’ or ‘blue America.’ We’re celebrating red, white, and blue America.â€
So, what brought us here today out in this field? Why aren’t 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. We’re not willing to just sit back and watch her demise through some “fundamental transformation†of the greatest country on earth. We’re here to stop that transformation and to begin the restoration of the country that we love.
We’re here because America is at a tipping point. America faces a crisis. And it’s not a crisis like perhaps a Midwest summer storm – 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. It’s not just fear of a double dip recession. And it’s not even the shame of a credit downgrade for the first time in U.S. history. It’s deeper than that. This is a systemic crisis due to failed policies and incompetent leadership. And we’re going to speak truth today. It may be hard-hitting, but we’re going to speak truth today because we need to start talking about what hasn’t worked, and we’re 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: “When the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away….what exactly is [Barack Obama’s] 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.†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 didn’t have a record while he was in office, but President Obama sure does, and that’s why we’re here today.
Candidate Obama pledged to fundamentally transform America. And for all the failures and the broken promises, that’s the one thing he has delivered on. We’ve 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, they’re 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. That’s $4.25 billion a day.
President Obama, is this what you call “winning the future� I call it losing – losing our country and with it the American dream. President Obama, these people – these Americans – feel that “fierce urgency of now.†But do you feel it, sir?
The Tea Party was borne of this urgency. It’s the same sense of urgency that propelled the Sons of Liberty during the Revolution. It’s 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 isn’t simply a political awakening; it’s an American awakening. And it’s coming from ordinary Americans, not the politicos in the Beltway. No, it’s 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 left’s 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 left’s big government agenda. We don’t want it. We can’t 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.
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
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Dr Sowell should be shunned for his BLASPHEMY against the words of our DEAR LEADER (PEACE BE UPON HIM). Let us denounce these commentators who vomit forth IMPURE THOUGHTS about DONALD TRUMP (BLESSED BE HIS NAME) & close our ears to them. Our DEAR LEADER will lead us out of the darkness into the LIGHT— THE LIGHT WHICH IS HIS RULE.
Between Palin and Sowell, commend me to the latter.
Did she actually say this only a couple of days ago, or is this the text of a speech given in September?
Here's another temporal anomaly.
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?
He was in the United States Marine Corps.
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.”
What a ridiculous comment, but that is not surprising coming from a Trumpee
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...
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