Posted on 11/11/2013 10:34:37 AM PST by jazusamo
Well put.
Good God isn’t there anyone out there on the so called rational right that refuses to be trapped into and thereby provide credibility to the democrat premise that the tea party shut down the government?
Obama and Harry Reid shut down the government stop living the lie......morons
Never thought I would say that about Sowell but he too has become infected with the “live inside the other guys premise” flu
“I respectfully disagree. The defunding shutdown was a tactical failure but a strategic success.”
The shutdown MAY BE a strategic success. I think reasonable people can diff on that point, especially since at this point we have suggestions of its effects, but no concrete proof one way or the other.
“Mr. Sowell is simply wrong. Cruz shined a huge spotlight on Obamascam by President Flim-Flam and deserves a great deal of thanks.”
It certainly put the Tea Party and the Republicans both in a position to make clear that the Obamacare travesty belongs wholly to the Dems.
The Tea Party made a lot of noise about the disaster of Obamacare. By taking their stand, they showed the American public they were right all along. If no conservatives had protested the coming debacle, many Americans might have assumed conservatives were perfectly fine with the whole rotten thing. This is where I disagree with the great Dr. Sowell...sometimes you have to make a “futile” but necessary stand.
“I think the key point is that when we challenge a RINO we should do it with a qualified candidate.
We’ve put up several candidates that kind of resemble Palin and wear red tops and didn’t know anything about campaigning or many of the issues. They were easily disposed of by the media.
Quality not quantity is the best way to build a brand. “
For all his faults, this was a prime success of Gingrich and his cohorts. They spent years building a farm team, and we’re able to present well-rounded candidates nation-wide when the House Bank scandal (rightfully) took out corrupt Republicans in the primaries. There was a housecleaning with a full something to replace the trash.
“Were”
I did not mean to imply that Sarah Palin didn't know anything about campaigning or many of the issues. I was only saying that they looked like her but didn't have her political abilities.
Add my name to the disagreeing list to this Sowell’s article (I & II).
[Others had already stated the reason(s) very well, probably better than I could have done.]
Yep, you’ve joined the pronounced majority and I was pretty certain it would turn out like that:)
I respect Thomas Sowell, but I disagree. We cannot win every battle, of course, but one must not always succumb to that without a good fight, first. The shutdown always does the same thing. I was a civilian worker once and we went through a couple government shutdowns. People got all their money in the end, and it usually ends better for them. There is usually a payback that makes up for the inconvenience. The government always trots out the “poor federal workers with families to feed”. It is a sham that we let the democrats get by with this every once in a while.
The republicans are a say-nothing/do nothing lot. They never get the message out there as to why it was even considered. It’s not the tea party’s fault, but the RNC or the gop-e, if you will. They LET the tea party take the blame, of course, but does anyone recall the party’s platform? Small government, family values? Why are the so-called moderates....who vote more often with the Communist-democrats considered the ones being reasonable and the tea party must always be the extremists? The moderates who NEVER want a fight, never want to stand on principle are supposedly the reasonable ones? Absolutely not! I’m glad to find out who the real conservatives are. The ones who vote the stand they take, the ones who don’t back down because we cannot win this. Hell, we’d never know WHO is conservative if we didn’t have the few who are willing to stand on principle, even when it is a losing cause.
The 27 RINO Senators queered the deal when they went all in with Dingy.
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