Is Thomas Sowell Right About Ted Cruz?
Posted 2 hours ago by Common Constitutionalist Filed under 2014 Election, 2016 Election, Congress, Constitution, Debt, Government Spending, Low Information Voters, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Tea Party
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Lately I’ve penned a few rather depressing articles. I’ve even had someone tell me that I’ve written of America’s demise because I want it to occur.
That couldn’t be further from the truth.
I told him, “Do you think I want to write or even think of this stuff? People must know what is happening to our country.”
Just think of where we would be without talk radio and the Internet. We would be virtually blind, metaphorically.
It gives me no pleasure to report on the destruction of our country and the people who are causing it.
But as Glenn Beck says, “The truth lives here,” so no matter how painful, we must dispense the truth, or at least as we perceive it.
So it pains me to disagree with one of the greatest minds of our time.
But even Dr. Thomas Sowell is not above criticism, albeit, this is a first for me. I’m hoping it will be the last.
I hate this, but right is right, and I think Dr. Sowell is wrong. Boy, that hurt! I’m glad this isn’t paper for it would be wet from my tears.
Recently Dr. Sowell wrote a couple of articles singling out Ted Cruz for not attempting to “unify” the Republican Party before the 2014 elections.
He says that “internal battles” within the Republican Party are the last thing we need. He claims that Ted Cruz is just being a “self-serving grandstander” by opposing his fellow Republicans in the Senate – such as forcing last year’s government shut down of which Dr. Sowell claims Republicans took a real hit.
Well, I disagree. The “hit” they took, if there was one, was not to rally around Ted Cruz and defend the purpose of the shut down. Maybe the Republicans could have unified around the fact that 85% of the government during the shutdown was fully functioning and hardly anyone noticed.
In my opinion, Dr. Sowell is missing the point of the whole lack of unity thing. What he is neglecting to see is that before we can beat the Democrats, we must first defeat the establishment in our own party. Freedom and liberty will no more thrive under the establishment Republicans than it will under the Democrats.
Read at:
http://godfatherpolitics.com/14487/thomas-sowell-right-ted-cruz/
Internet yes, talk radio no.
There is a vast difference between the quality and diversity of information that we have access to here on FR, and talk radio. Here most of the relevant info for each situation is available, not talk radio.
Talk radio sets up simple themes and presents only information surgically selected to support those themes to motivate listeners to do what they want.
Here on FR is where I first learned that a shutdown would not defund Obamacare, and that was before the shutdown.
You never heard that on ‘talk radio’ because it wasn't useful for what they were trying to motivate.
The motivating claims was that Clinton caved to Newt and Dole in early 1996, which was not true. Newt and Dole sent Clinton the CR he demanded, just like what played out here.
I take issue by issue and not interested in being blindly led off a cliff. The shutdown was designed to lose to Dems. Obamacare was never defunded for even a day.