Thomas Sowell’s endorsement is more meaningful to me than a hundred editorial board endorsements and two hundred politicians’ endorsements. I won’t say he’s convinced me just yet, but — as always — he’s provided good food for profitable thought.
Thomas Sowell brings logic to the table yet again!
No thank you.
Laffer just endorsed Newt! That means a lot to me.
It’s no surprise that honest, thoughtful, practical, conservative commentators like Sowell would back Newt. Obama won the election because of his almost hypnotic communication and speaking skills. Newt is far and away the best speaker of our candidates. He has a long track record of CONSERVATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS and very minimal flip-flopping considering his 30-40 year career. He is an extremely smart problem solver. If you had to attend a 2-hour lecture by one of the candidates, who would you rather listen to? Who would you feel you might learn the most from?
The idea that any Democrat can use Freddie Mac as a weapon against Newt is laughable. Obama received the 3rd highest campaign contributions out of all politicians from Freddie and Fannie, and that as going back over something like 20 years when Obama had only been around for a few. Is it any surprise they continue to receive taxpayer bailouts under his administration?
1. She's not running.
2. In her absence, I'll take the best we can get as long as it is someone who will reverse the past four years and not move further toward socialism.
3. Sowell nails it. Newt is the nest we can do, and he's not bad (for those who don't have to be married to him).
My favorite part:
Romney's own talking point that he has been a successful businessman is no reason to put him into a political office, however much it may be a reason for him to become a successful businessman again.
AMEN!!! I hope in 2012, Romney goes back into being a businessman, leaving us taxpayers alone.
Thomas Sowell endorses Newt Gingrich!
Ya, I guess the Doc has got me convinced.
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.
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.
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!