[P-Marlowe]

It is obvious that this Part II was not written until after he had published the original article which was called "Cruz Control?" without the part I. Reading the comments over at American Spectator it is clear that Sowell was shocked at the visceral reaction by the American Spectator readers to his article and then felt compelled to try to water it down with a PART II.

But his part II makes no sense at all. He seems to have it in for Cruz for taking a principled stand but then criticizes the GOP for not taking a principled stand.

He thinks he can have it both ways.

He is being excoriated over this second part just as he was the first part. I don't know if he is just going to drop the subject, or if we will see some more backtracking tomorrow in Part III followed by Part IV and Part V.

I am sorely disappointed in Mr. Sowell's careless articles over the last 2 days. Whatever point he was trying to make has been lost in the fog of the contradictory statements he has made in both articles.

[jazusamo]

There’s no doubt in my mind Part II was written in reaction to comments on Part I, as you say.

Even though American Spectator shows “COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM” at the end of the article it had not been posted on the Creators site for at least an hour after I posted this from AS.

Hopefully this will be his last piece on it for the reason you mentioned.