Posted on 02/21/2014 7:30:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WOW! Absolutely GREAT post!!!
For a smart man, Thomas Sowell is making some pretty stupid assertions.
Since a SCOTUS nomination is a battle the GOPe can't win, what difference will it make who's in control?
Can you show any evidence Republicans have the fight in them to oppose the next communist nominated to the court? Keep in mind, they will be facing the real possibility of being called...{{shudder}}...RACIST! If Obama wanted to be really mean, he might even say Ni! Ni!
mark
“we have to hold our noses and vote for the GOP.”
No, there are write-in candidates.
“Someone needs to explain the difference between tactical and strategic victory to Mr Sowell.”
The Battle Of The Coral Sea: A tactical tie.....a very big strategic win!
Awwwwww, - - - - shucks - - - - - - - - - - - thanks.
Thom AS-Sowell, doesn’t like Gop who have balls, he likes them gelded.
Tommy’s going to be defecating bricks when Cruz runs for President and wins.
Cruz leads by example and is rallying the troops, us, while the chicken**** "leadership" leads by wringing their hands and sniveling and ATTACKING the TEA Party and Cruz!
Sowell is a cheerleader for the sniveling hand wringers.
F*** that, F***them and F***Sowell!
Pearl Harbor - tactical victory, strategic disaster.
Your premise is wrong.
I cannot agree with your summation. Sowell’s article addresses the tactics of politics, comparing them with warfare. He NEVER writes that the Republicans cannot defeat Obama and the Democrats. Instead, he advocates we choose our battles.
History has proven his assessment correct. After all, we don’t need another pyrrhic victory where our sole win is the satisfaction of a bunch of egos.
Name one who won national office
I thought this guy “got it”... Guess not...
WE (the TEA party... or whatever you wanna call us) are at WAR with the PROGRESSIVES! not the democrat party... Fill the democrat party with libertarians and all of a sudden im voting for some democrats.
How do we WIN this war? There are OBJECTIVES we must meet.
1. Establish control of state republican parties with “fire eating” libertarian/constitutional conservatives.
2. Turn the state party infrastructure into a weapon against the progressives in the national GOP.
3. Dominate state governments with “Tea party” types. all branches of state government.
4. Turn those states into weapons against the progressive federal government and the progressive infrastructure in the state.
5. Elect “Ted Cruz” types to the federal government to stop the engine of the progressive agenda or slow it down by using every possible procedure and rule.
6. Identify and target the remaining progressives in the republican party (GOPe) (Ted is doing a FINE job of identifying the bastards) and eliminate them through the primary process if possible, the general election if necessary.
7. Once the GOP has been purged of progressives we will hold a solid defensible position to take the WAR to the progressives in the Democrat party like its never been done before.
8. Continue bludgeoning the fedgov with the states we own, continue throwing “bombs” into the guts of the fedgov with our increasing number of congressman and senators, destroy every progressive in the democrat party politically, professionally and personally... NO MERCY! NO PITY! NO REGRET!
Then we stand a chance of winning our freedom!
Why the F don't the people who advertise themselves as “smarter” then everyone else understand this?
Dr Sowell seems to have his history confused. Sen Cruz IS our Gen Washington.
I just read a great piece (posted on another thread by NEWwoman) written by David McCollough (author of 1776) that actually compares Washington’s battle against the British troops as the Dunkirk of the Revolution. Here’s a snippet of that article....
THE GLORIOUS CAUSE OF AMERICA
By David McCullough
But then, in a miraculous escape from Brooklyn Heights on the night of Oct. 29, we got back across the East River and were saved. It was the Dunkirk of the Revolution. If the wind had been in the other direction that night or the two or three nights preceding it, theres not much question that the war would have been over then because Washington and 9,000 American troops would have been captured. If the British had been able to bring their warships up into the East River, between Brooklyn and Manhattan, they would have had us right in the trap. But because there was a howling storm out of the northeast, they werent able to do that.
Washington ordered that every possible small craft be rounded up and be made ready to bring the army back to New York. It was to be done at night. An organized retreat for an experienced army is the most difficult maneuver of all when faced by a superior force. But for this amateur pick-up team, this rude, crude, un-uniformed, undisciplined, untrained American army of farm boyssome of whom had been given a musket and told to march off only a few weeks beforefor that kind of an army to make a successful retreat across water at night, right in the face of the enemy without the enemy knowing, was a virtual impossibility. And yet they did it.
http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=1746
Sen Cruz is the brave General showing us the way. Shame on Dr Sowell and Ann Coulter for suggesting retreat.
Their trust was rewarded with the execution of 342 of them in cold blood on March 27.
Their contribution to the defeat of Santa Ana's armies in the 18 minute battle at San Jacinto on April 21 was only to reinforce in Texian minds what untrustworthy b*st*rds they were dealing with.
The Alamo defenders, on the other hand, bought our side 13 days of time to gather the army which set things right at San Jacinto.
The battle Ted Cruz fought wasn’t against the progressives in the democrat party... It was against the progressives in the GOP...
the battle we need to be picking RIGHT NOW is against the progressives in the GOP. Target and ELIMINATE as many as possible... Replace with more Ted Cruz types... then repeat until GOP is purged of Progressives.
WIN the GOP... Then escalate the real war against the progressives in the democrat party to levels unimaginable when the GOP was infested by the enemy.
Let's just all acquiesce, turn in all our money and guns and freedoms and go home. Yeah Thomas....that'll work!
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