Posted on 12/28/2011 2:49:56 PM PST by jazusamo
Ya, I guess the Doc has got me convinced.
Amen!
Ann Coulter ping. :-)
It kinda sounded like he was going to in a recent article..... I consider it good news from a true conservative.
Never would we be able to improve on Dr. Sowell's reasoning, but one additional word adds another significant point to the above sentence: how about inserting the word "conservative" just before the word "accomplishments"?
Even before we began to see the truly tragic consequences of 40 years of liberal Democrat Congressses, Newt Gingrich was leading a charge toward conservatism and a new direction for Congress, called the "Contract with America." For the first time in decades, a President who was a Democrat had to take into account a conservative Republican force in the Congress.
Where was Romney's effort being directed then? Was he, as a businessman, doing what James R. Evans in Illinois, Eddie Chiles in Texas, and W. David Stedman in North Carolina were doing? They were dedicating much of their time and significant amounts of their earnings in the private sector warning their fellow businessmen and women, and the public at large, that government intervention in the marketplace, its big spending and taxation, and its violations of constitutional principle were going to destroy the private enterprise system and bankrupt America!
Evans wrote an outstanding book, "America's Choice: Twilight's Last Gleaming or Dawn's Early Light." He did public speaking and challeneged his fellow business leaders to educate others.
Eddie Chiles was an outspoken advocate for liberty and famous for his radio messages, using the phrase, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more."
Stedman combined the radio message idea with speeches to industry and trade groups, monthly full-page free enterprise messages in the business publication, North Carolina Magazine. He, like Evans, published a Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987) volume on America's founding principles, titled "Our Ageless Constitution." That 292-page work highlighted the Founders' constitutional protections for individuals through their Constitution's strict limitations on coercive government power.
Did Mitt Romney do any of these things as a private citizen/businessman? How far back does his commitment to conservative constitutional principles go?
Now, America has been led so far away from the Constitution's intended limits on government power and toward the kind of socialist doctrines and policies of Europe that only a person who has studied the founding period, its heroes and their ideas, can possibly understand enough of their ideas to rebut and rebuke the counterfeit ideas which will be laid out in the presidential debates. A person who has studied history may be the best candidate in 2012.
Totally agree. There are many who forget the conservative accomplishments Newt was responsible for.
Excellent post.
What about Gingrich’s position on border crashing?
I think Coulter was correct in saying that a failure to seal the border and deport illegals will fundamentally change my beloved country.
She was also correct in saying that the refusal to seal the border is pandering to business and not to fifth columnists of Mexican extraction.
That makes those business leaders, as individuals, domestic enemies of the constitution.
People who should never be in charge of anything are in charge of practically everything.
Yes, agree with Dr. Sowell. Thanks for the ping jaz.
Well, that's true. And the unrealistic ones are the loudest, especially Ron Paul's supporters.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
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