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1 posted on 01/23/2012 1:00:46 PM PST by jazusamo
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2 posted on 01/23/2012 1:05:19 PM PST by jazusamo (If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
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The South Carolina Message:

Myth Rino sleeps with the fishes!


3 posted on 01/23/2012 1:11:50 PM PST by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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-——and the pro-Obama media-——

The Messiah has lost already.

The MSM presstitutes will make the difference and a campaign.

This is the week I have been predicting the seven gray heads will go to the white house to deliver the message........ end the campaign for the good of the party, for the future of the chilrun.


4 posted on 01/23/2012 1:12:11 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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—Moreover, he is just the kind of candidate that the Republican establishment has preferred for years: a nice, bland, moderate who offends nobody. —

I started saying, with the 2000 election that politicians are like beer: Really good beer is loved by those who appreciate it, but because it will have a strong flavor, it is not appreciated by “the masses”. That’s why you sell more Coors or Bud than Newcastle Nut Brown Ale, Alaskan Amber, or BBC Star Stout, or Goose Island, or Mac & Jack.

So every four years we get to choose between Bud and Coors for the “best” beer, because they are bland enough to not offend too many people. Meanwhile, the Mac & Jack, Alaskan Amber, etc. are loved by their followers, while never reaching real market saturation.


5 posted on 01/23/2012 1:14:52 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Really, really good column. I wish the rest of the "elites" would consider this.

Is this a gamble? The painful reality is that everyone in this year's field of Republican candidates is a gamble. And re-electing Barack Obama is an even bigger gamble.

Whichever candidate the Republican voters finally choose from this year's field, they are bound to have reservations, if not fears. Gingrich's worst could be worse than Romney's worst, both as a candidate and as a president. But Gingrich's best is much better than Romney's best.

Sometimes caution can be carried to the point where it is dangerous. When the Super Bowl is on the line, you don't go with the quarterback who is least likely to throw an interception. You go with the one most likely to throw a touchdown pass.

All of that is just dead-on, and it even applies to Romney. As bad as Romney could be, he's not going to be worse than Obama, and the mere fact that he depends on the GOP for support would push him further to the right that Obama.

But the overall point is right -- Gingrich has a slugger's chance of beating Obama, and that might be the best we're going to get.

6 posted on 01/23/2012 1:16:15 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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Whomever the Republicans choose as their candidate is going to have to run against both Barack Obama and the pro-Obama media. Newt Gingrich has shown that he can do that. Romney? Not so much. Mitt Romney's fumbling when trying to answer the simple question of whether he would or would not release his income tax records is the kind of indecisiveness that is not going to cut it in a nationally televised debate with President Obama.

BINGO!!!

7 posted on 01/23/2012 1:16:15 PM PST by stillonaroll (Nominate a non-RINO in 2012!)
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—When the Super Bowl is on the line, you don’t go with the quarterback who is least likely to throw an interception. You go with the one most likely to throw a touchdown pass. —

That one sentence sums up the whole thing.

It is along the lines of what Brian Tracy teaches: People are motivated by two things - fear of failure and desire for success. The winners are the ones that allow the latter to overrule the former.


8 posted on 01/23/2012 1:18:44 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Dr. Sowell is right again. Mitt will not score any touchdowns, and he’s trying to kneecap his competition for the starting job.


9 posted on 01/23/2012 1:21:20 PM PST by CASchack
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If only we could elect a true decent genius like Sowell. Oh, yeah, he can’t debate because he has a speech impediment. Hate the focus on that auperficial crap. Let him debate Obama with a keyboard. He’d slaughter him.

For conservatives, this is Newt’s to lose... But hang on to Santy because Newt just might blow it.


13 posted on 01/23/2012 1:26:15 PM PST by Yaelle
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15 posted on 01/23/2012 1:28:09 PM PST by jazusamo (If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
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“When the Super Bowl is on the line, you don’t go with the quarterback who is least likely to throw an interception. You go with the one most likely to throw a touchdown pass.”

That’s a really good line. Campaign ad good.


19 posted on 01/23/2012 1:46:00 PM PST by order66.exe
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Since National Review will no longer listen to the hayseeds that oppose Romney (based on the unanimity of opinion on “The Corner”, and the fact that they disallow/delete anti-Romney comments), perhaps they will listen to Dr. Sowell.

Or, is he just another callow idealist unwilling to give an inch to capture the brain-dead political center?


21 posted on 01/23/2012 1:50:01 PM PST by oblomov
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Isn't it reassuring that one can trust the intellect, wisdom, and understanding of Thomas Sowell to see beyond the armchair pundits and politicians to the heart of the Gingrich appeal in South Carolina?

Brit Hume's always wise-sounding, but this time shallow, "analysis" concluded that it was just the points in the "debates" and that "debating" won't carry the day in the November elections. Others, who clearly are trying to mold our minds to their wills, say it's just that Newt expresses our "anger," and that his "negatives" make him undesirable as a candidate.

Yes, the so-called "progressives" and their domination of education's failures have succeeded in "dumbing us down"--but not that far down.

We still, as South Carolinians proved, can think for ourselves, and we can "get" the difference between someone who can articulate the great ideas of America's Founders' Constitution and someone who has to rely on memorized phrases like "private sector," "hope of the earth," and verses from "America, the Beautiful," to fill in what should be thoughtul, substantive debate on how to defeat the ideology of Obama and save American liberty, in all its dimensions.

What American voters need between now and November is a clear articulation of the first principles underlying freedom for individuals in a society. If that can happen, then the ideas of Marx and other sources of redistribution and oppression will be exposed and rejected. Florida voters now may help to decide who has displayed a likely ability to accomplish that task.

South Carolinians decided already.

As Dr. Sowell indicates, it is a "make or break" decision for "the future of this country."

23 posted on 01/23/2012 1:55:36 PM PST by loveliberty2
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24 posted on 01/23/2012 1:56:58 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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Mitt Romney's supposed "electability" — his acceptability to moderates and independents — has been his biggest selling point. Moreover, he is just the kind of candidate that the Republican establishment has preferred for years: a nice, bland, moderate who offends nobody.

I'll have to disagree with Dr. Sowell's statement. Mitt Romney offends the crap out of me with his robotic tone and his bland spewings.

27 posted on 01/23/2012 2:05:52 PM PST by Fledermaus (I can't fiddle so I'll just open a cold beer as I watch America burn.)
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Woo hoo!!

No Romney, no way!!

Go, Newt!!

Rebellion is on!!


30 posted on 01/23/2012 2:11:20 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is not just brewing, rebellion is here!!)
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Moreover, he is just the kind of candidate that the Republican establishment has preferred for years: a nice, bland, moderate who offends nobody.

In other words, the complete antithesis of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

31 posted on 01/23/2012 2:11:26 PM PST by Thane_Banquo
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a nice, bland, moderate

Add "predictable" to that.

34 posted on 01/23/2012 2:17:39 PM PST by cornelis
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This is the Thomas Sowell that I remember from DECADES ago. He just cuts through it all, and lays the facts out for all to see.

Simply one of the most brilliant men to ever live.


41 posted on 01/23/2012 6:19:39 PM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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