Posted on 01/30/2016 5:29:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Of all the many things said about Donald Trump, what was said by Roger Ailes, head of the Fox News Channel, said it all in just two words: "Grow up!"
It is amazing how many people have been oblivious to this middle-aged man's spoiled brat behavior, his childish boastfulness about things he says he is going to do, and his petulant response to every criticism with ad hominem replies.
He has boasted that his followers would stick by him even if he committed murder. But is that something to boast about? Is it not an insult to his followers, if it is true? Moreover, his cockiness is misplaced, because he still does not have a majority among Republican voters, while you need a majority of all the voters to win any state in the general election.
Trump has a showman's talent for telling people what they want to hear. But you can listen in vain for a coherent argument from him, based on facts and logic, much less an understanding of the inherent limitations of the office of president.
More than two centuries ago, Edmund Burke said: "Constitute government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state."
In other words, the personal character of the people to whom you entrust the powers of government matters even more than what kinds of government institutions there are. There have been some good kings and some bad presidents, as well as vice versa.
In a world where the future of this country is threatened from within by increasingly angry polarization, and where external threats can become nuclear, are we really going to entrust the safety or this country to a man who still needs to grow up?
Is the fact that he loudly expressed our own disgust with the political establishment a sufficient reason to gamble the whole future of the country by putting him in the White House?
The White House is not a place for on-the-job training. You are supposed to be ready, or at the very least grown up, before you walk in the door. Aging happens automatically, but maturity is optional -- and it is an option that Donald Trump has not yet chosen to exercise.
The issue that Trump raised about Ted Cruz's having been born in Canada is not the first time he has tried to challenge where someone was born. "The Donald" was among those who tried to say that Barack Obama was not born an American citizen, and who disgraced themselves, while undermining other critics of Obama who had serious objections to his policies.
On the other hand, messianic demagogues have often spoken at least part of the truth. But they have also often led their followers to their doom, whether at Jonestown, Stalingrad or innumerable other places. That is a very high price to pay for an exhilaration of the moment.
Donald Trump is not the only one who needs to act like an adult. With this country starting to unravel from within, while ruthless enemies overseas are developing both nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles to deliver them, we face problems that cannot be solved by candidates with glib words or by voters who vote for whoever meets their emotional needs.
If you don't understand the issues, but want to do your patriotic duty, then stay home on election night, whether in the primaries or in the national election in November. Uninformed voters turn elections into a game of playing Russian roulette with the future of America.
Conservative candidates will also have an opportunity to show their maturity and their patriotism. This is not the first primary season in which the conservative vote has been split among so many Republican candidates that it virtually guarantees that someone who is not a conservative will win the Republican nomination.
At some point during the primary season, it becomes clear that some candidates have no real chance of winning the nomination, much less the general election. At that point they can either continue hanging on, keeping the conservative vote split, or they can withdraw and throw their support to some other conservative candidate who has a chance.
A lot of people need to grow up, and to do something for this country that has done so much for them.
No it’s you Trump bots that have no clue. You are following him blindly around without thinking.
Dear Tom.
You used to an interesting read. Now, not so much.
It was nice knowing you.
Best Wishes,
PWHBTTDTRTSA
(People Who Have Better Thing To Do Than Read Tom Sowell Anymore.)
Roger Ailes does not have the balls to do a damn thing that either Murdoch or his two Clinton Foundation heavy contributing punk sons tell him. Murdoch is the Liberal ass who wants Bloomberg to run. He was damn near thrown in jail in England. His sons and/or he directed those three idiots Brett Baer, (a punk no one would even associate with back in school), Chris Wallace who used his father’s name Mike Wallace to get ahead, and Megyn Kelley who is trying to out do O’Reilly for # 1 ratings. She likes to dish the crap out like a man then she plays the women’s lib I am an abused female who was insulted and abused by a bad man. My wife said she plays the hurt female game when she can’t take her own crap turned on her. Fox is not conservative go to One America News. Murdoch turned control of Fox over to his sons this summer before the first debate. O’Reilly preaching to Trump about how to be a Christian and then saying journalists are exempt from doing the same. What a damn hypocrite.
Sowell makes a devastating case against Trump try taking of the blinders once in awhile.
Sowell a sellout?
Damn you people are way over the edge.
With some of Trumps supporters it’s racial, I think. Can’t have a president with a Hispanic surname, you know. How else can you explain it?
I REALLY think that taking an obvious joke, and calling it murder is just beyond being ridiculous!!! Just the same as Cruz supporters consistently posting Hitler imiages!!! It makes your credibility NIL!!!!
Cuck a doodle doo!
“You are following him blindly around without thinking.” So untrue, lots of measured and rational reasons for preferring Trump: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3390593/posts?page=73#73
Sowell points out that Trump makes up crap on the fly to get attention and has no real philosophical moorings. HE will turn on conservatives in a second for his PERSONAL gain.
How dare you call Dr Thomas Sowell a punk. Shame on you
The White House is not a place for on-the-job training. You are supposed to be ready, or at the very least grown up, before you walk in the door. Aging happens automatically, but maturity is optional -- and it is an option that Donald Trump has not yet chosen to exercise.THANK YOU THOMAS!
Nah, I just think they all wanna be rich and famous vicariously
:)
My reply was to Resettozero and had nothing to do with Senator Cruz
“hmmm... a black man in a white hood?”
Ever see “Blazing Saddles”?
;^)
What personal gain? Donald Trump is taking a pay cut to run for President. You are expecting to be betrayed because that is what Republicans do to their voters. So if Donald Trump betrays us it will only mean he is a conventional Republican. That doesn’t seem likely.
I have said from day one..
Trump is for Trump
I also told every blackman woman and child that Obama aint down for the struggle.
And I did that fully aware that I would be marked and brother was I marked.
Do we really want 8 more years of this BS?
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