The Past and the Present (Thomas Sowell on Newt Gingrich)

Creators Syndicate ^ | December 20, 2011 | Thomas Sowell

[Chunga]

I’m not name-calling. I’ve stated a fact.

[b9]

Yes, you have.

[Gilbo_3]

wow, the bots are comin out of the wood work harder and faster by the day...

the ABBB crowd will be full chorus before new years...

[USS Alaska]

If I gave a crap on how wrong you are - I would bookmark your goofy tagline and waive it in your face (Nyah-nyah-nyaaahhhh) when Sarah Palin endorses Mitt Romney.

So what? I'm a big Sarah fan, bought her books and went to her rallies, but at this point, why would her endorsement influence my vote?

If you think that those of us that love and respect Sarah are mind numbed Sarah-bots you are so wrong, and it's easy to see why you are anti Newt, you are brainless.

[Steelfish]

Dr. Sowell’s article is superb. But as Andy Mccarthy (who dissented from National Review’s Editorial against Newt) writes in today’s NRO, Newt’s statements are so utterly implausible that it is like giving Obama a wrecking ball to launch against Newt. As other FReepers have pointed out the problem with Newt, is Newt. With Reagan we could all confidently say “Let Reagan be Reagan” and we can’t say this with Newt.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Oh NO!

Someone like Thomas Sowell, making logical sense and pointing out something positive about why we need a man like Newt leading the country! That won’t do! (/s)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Well then you sound perfectly happy with Romney or Paul.

Keep up the great effort to help the Democrats put the finishing touches on destroying the country. You did your part, It must make you happy and proud.

[Responsibility2nd]

Well then you sound perfectly happy with Romney or Paul.

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Either you can’t read or you don’t think Romney or Paul are RINO’s.

[sickoflibs]

RE :"wow, the bots are comin out of the wood work harder and faster by the day... the ABBB crowd will be full chorus before new years... "

Saw it, They are competing with the ABNG crowd. The ABBAR crowd is shrinking.

[b9]

I used to think Steyn was the smartest man in the room.
He still thinks he is.

Sowell has the smarts to see the worth of Newt.
Steyn doesn’t have the same stake - he’s not even a US citizen.

[sickoflibs]

Correction, the ABBNG crowd.

[FastCoyote]

It’s coming down to Paul, Romney or Newt. The country would survive Newt. Paul is unelectable and Romney would crush the conservative movement. I don’t see a heck of a lot of options.

[Jacquerie]

Ditto!

[skeptoid]

You mean a sometime conservative, sometime liberal suck up, Republican backstabbing, amnesty loving, consummate insider, "maverick"? Na, no similarity at all.

I'm thinking of the Speaker who oversaw the contract With America, four consecutive budget surlpuses and the only significant welfare reform ever passed. He's the man who was totally exonerated of any wrongdoing after a four year investigation by the IRS.

[DuncanWaring]

The federal budget was balanced in '98, '99, '00 and '01.

In which of those years did the national debt not increase?

[DuncanWaring]

Here’s the record of the national debt over the four years you like to cite:

09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/1998 5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 5,413,146,011,397.34

Maybe you could point-out the surplus to me. I’m having trouble finding it.

[Notary Sojac]

Yes, but Sowell as we all know is just another globalist statist Marxist RINO!!!!!!! /s

You left out "elitist" and "Beltway". /s

[Tax-chick]

I'm just saying I'd trust that "zany" Gingrich more than I'd trust Romney.

I agree.

[Jim Robinson]

Newterized.

[Prokopton]

He's the man who was totally exonerated of any wrongdoing after a four year investigation by the IRS.

You know, I didn't even mention that as a "similarity" but, come to think of it, Gingrich's cover up, for which he paid a huge fine, does remind me of McCain's "Keating Five" antics.

You started out with a shovel, then you had to bring in the backhoe.