We have two columns by Dr. Sowell this evening and they're both excellent.
Posted on 03/16/2009 7:33:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
As if it is not enough that they have been decimated by the Democrats in the past couple of elections, the Republican survivors are now turning their guns on each other.
At the heart of these internal battles have been attacks on Rush Limbaugh by Republicans who imagine themselves to be so much more sophisticated because they are so much more in step with the political fashions of the time.
New Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's cheap shot at Rush's program as "ugly" set off the latest round of infighting. That is the kind of thing usually said by liberals who have never listened to the program.
Regular listeners to the Rush Limbaugh program or subscribers to the Limbaugh newsletter know that both contain far more factual information and in-depth analysis than in the programs or writings of pundits with more of a ponderous tone or intellectual airs.
Why Michael Steele found it necessary to say such a thing — except as a sop to the liberal intelligentsia — is one of the many mysteries of the Republican Party. Steele has since apologized to Rush, but you cannot unring the bell.
More important, the mind-set it betrays is at the heart of many of the problems of the Republican Party, going back for years, long before Steele appeared on the scene.
An element of the Republican Party has felt a need to distance itself from people who stand up for conservative principles, whether those with principles have been Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh or others.
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Another gem from Dr. Sowell.
Two groups are pretty much exclusive of each other. The right gets its own voters from a separate pool. While, now, the democrats not only have the leftoids; they’ve gotten back mainstream voters. Which is why they are in the majority, again.
The GOP has not yet come to terms with how they lost all those voters who do make a difference. Except, it’s easy to spot. Creationism, plus all its guises; and taking away choice, are big LOSERS! Can the GOP spot losers? I dunno. They gave space to Ron Paul! They went out of their way when running up to the presidency, they made about ten men spend fortunes. (With Rudy Guiliani opting to only go broke in Florida. And, like Hillary, he, too, came up short.) While, somehow, McCain was given the nomination. What kind of deal was that? Bob Dole wasn’t enough of a loser?
What an absolutely ridiculous list?
How many times did you vote for Obama?
How much do they pay you to ‘artificial turf’ this site?
Taking away choice? I take it you think that abortionon demand, abortion as a form of birth control, is a perfectly moral choice. Fact is that since 1973, the majority of American public has never ceased to think that abortion is morally wrong, which is why the pro-abortion crowd have contrived to keep them in the dark about the radicalness of our abortion law. Now Obama is working to strip away the few legal restrictions on abortion while peddling the lie that poverty or a lack of access to contraceptives is the cause of the annual slaughter.
lol.
Obama won because he lied. the media lied for him. McCain was an awful choice too, far too liberal.
its as simple as that.
creationism?? you have got to be kidding, that issue wasn’t even on the radar.
troll.
hihoherman
Since Mar 12, 2009
Welcome to Free Republic, dickweed.
I’m laughing here.
LOL! Just imagine: Steele opens his mouth and says something incredibly stupid, and already he’s had to apologize to Rush, AND he’s been b-slapped by the most important conservative intellectual in the entire country! In case you’re curious, Dr. Sowell learned economics from George Stigler — a Nobel laureate, friend of Milton Friedman’s, and one of the big names in free-market economics at University of Chicago. Sowell was later taken under the wing of Milton Friedman.
So as far as I’m concerned, Steele just got a tongue lashing from the entire Chicago School of economics for being (excuse, please) a putz, and just NOT GETTING IT.
Sorry, but I do think that’s pretty funny!
What kind of change were you looking for????
When you come down hard on Creationism, remove all doubt that you are a loser.
We have two columns by Dr. Sowell this evening and they're both excellent.
IBZ.
It’s pathetic that the GOP has such girly men that they stew and pine for metrosexual Democrat love and affection.
You get to his age, Steele, and you don’t know what you are talking about....you’re stupid, done, toast, turkey meet fork, put’m in a box, out to pasture....
they’ve gotten back mainstream voters. Which is why they are in the majority, again.
LMAO IBTZ
What they've gotten is ACORN, which includes Mickey Mouse, Mary Poppins and George Foreman (George is registered to vote 53 times).
Bugger off troll!
Don’t forget the Dallas Cowboys..
Forget the GOP. GOP does not equal conservative.
In fairness, the same goes for the libs. Plenty of Blue Dogs that they have to deal with. They are not liberal enough. DINO’s.
I’m going on Politico right now and claiming to be a self described lib who will tell them why libs should act like conservatives. Frum gave me the idea.
It’s brilliant.
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