Posted on 02/21/2014 8:05:27 AM PST by Innovative
"The Republican establishment has more than a tactical deficiency, however. They seem to have no principle that they offer or follow with any consistency. Their lack of articulation may be just a reflection of that lack of principle. It is hard to get to the point when you have no point to get to.
Ted Cruz filled a void. But the Republican establishment created the void."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Inno, your statement is STOOOPID, STEWWWPID, STUPID.
Somehow, I think Gaffer is all AGAINST Dems and statists from taking over and destroying the country. I think you, Innovative, are all for demonizing any conservative who disagrees with how YOU would go about preventing them from doing it.
Stoooooooooooooopid. Total waste of bandwidth, your comment: "So you are all for the Dems to take over and destroy the country."
Or do you ALWAYS let your emotions define your political analyses?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Stop!!! Yer killin' me!!!
In my experience, half the time they don't even read the comment they are responding to.
Well said.
Then don't click on his columns. Every election we go through this losing "strategy" of died-in-the-wool "conservatives" who would rather lose an election, even a close one like the last one, than compromise one iota of their "principles" -- including being determined! to lose, if they have to, as long as they retain their self-righteousness.
And I thought it was the progressives/liberals who were the ones more enthralled with their emotions than with common sense.
From now on, no election is just a contest. It is a decisive battle in a drawn-out civil war that Constitutional conservatives have been steadily losing. Our side is trying to use the "honorable" battle tactics of the American Revolution -- stand in straight lines facing the enemy and get shot at front-on, knowing the guys behind you will step up over your dead body to get shot at front-on -- against the guerilla tactics of the left. It's suicide.
Sometimes you need to hold your nose in order to take out the garbage.
As far as the two-party system, it will die soon unless there is a TRUE CHOICE in our Candidates.
The only way to get there is to defeat the Socialist Democrats AND the Socialist Republicans. You defeat the Dems at the ballot box and you defeat the Socialist Republicans by replacing those in charge of the GOP with true Americans who love freedom and hate big government.
But that's not all. The American People need to re-commandeer their country by adhering to VALUES of life and liberty, not politicians. Vote for, but keep an eye on, the best candidates. "Trust but verify", Reagan's famous words. Politicians need to know that they are being watched (NOT the other way around) and the American people will throw the bums out regardless of who they are if they don't mind the business of keeping government and taxes small and let freedom reign.
If you don't get that then you are aiding and abetting the socialist agenda.
This article is identical to “Cruz Control, Part II” only it has a different title. The excerpt is the last 2 paragraphs in the article instead of the first 2.
exactly. I have to wonder why he has done this
Thomas Sowell was wrong, in my opinion, of accusing Ted Cruz of being self-serving. I have never disagreed with Sowell on anything of his I ever read. If I did I would have to stop and rethink my position. But this was a breach of Reagan’s 11th commandment (if we re-purpose it to not speaking evil of another CONSERVATIVE rather than RINO, which was his true intent).
That given, I think those here advocating that we abandon Sowell are ridiculous self-parodies. No one alive today can better articulate the conservative message than Sowell, and even Cruz needs to pay attention to his advice.
Sowell is a writer and speaker, and not a politician. I think this is probably why he wrote what he said about Cruz rather than picking up the phone and trying to persuade Cruz to take a different approach (unless he did do this but chose not to write about it). Sowell’s criticism makes me think he is naively accepting the Republican establishment’s best intentions. When we are on the brink of civil war I don’t think those good intentions amount to much. If they are not willing to fight now, then when?
One iota????
FRiend, the GOP didn't ask me to compromise one or even several iotas of my principles in expecting me to vote for Romney. I DID MY DUE DILIGENCE ON ROMNEY'S ACTIONS AND WORDS. I know for a fact that there was zero "compromise" asked or expected. Zilch, none. Romney was 100 percent functionally an amoral big government statist leftist Democrat on abortion, global warming, government-controlled health care, the homosexual agenda, gun control, and activist liberal judges. You can look it up. But he was registered as Republican. No one asked me to "compromise" a damned thing. They asked me to ABANDON every moral and limited government principle I have.
Sometimes you need to hold your nose in order to take out the garbage.
But most of the time, your nose is telling you something stinks BECAUSE that something is rotten or toxic. You can ignore your nose -- or you can heed your nose. The reason you're taking the garbage out in the first place is because it stinks.
You go ahead and ignore/hold your nose in the ballot box. I did the same for more than 35 years before I finally figured out -- holding your nose is kinda stupid most of the time; HEEDING your nose is the smarter thing, and I wish I and a lot of fellow conservatives had figured it out SOONER.
Yes, I stand corrected.
Very well put. A year or two ago, I probably would have written the same sort of drivel about "purity" as Innovative has. But I've been betrayed too many times by RINOs like McConnell, Rubio, Boehner, McCain, Cornholio, et al. It's not that these establishment RINO's have a slight odor. They are rotten to the core and are part of the problem and not the solution. It's bad enough to take fire from your front without having to watch your back for "friendly" fire from your supposed allies.
After so many brilliant columns from Dr. Sowell through the years, I am disappointed to find he is just a GOPe RINO.
It's because they lack one, a position that is, Thomas.
We’ve been taught our whole lives that fair-mindedness is a virtue. So, when we come to politics, we’re to realize that we’re supposed to give a little to get a little, and that no one will be everything that we’ve ever dreamed of.
That’s fair enough. GW Bush wasn’t everything, and I voted for him. He actually upheld my principles on life, self-defense, national defense, and religious freedom. He was awful on immigration, increased entitlements, and communication. I voted for him twice.
Romney, on the other hand, kept moving to the left. Pro-gay announcements, hint’s about “mother’s health” with abortion, willing to accept some gun restraints, wanting to implement a national romneycare and other big government solutions, and all that to court voters to the left of center. Meanwhile throwing a huge portion of his base under the bus.
Honestly, he could have run as a democrat with those positions on the issues. It very nearly looked like Bill Clinton.
Does fair-mindedness require blindness? No. We must be honest about what we have before us. Does the “Big Tent” require that we let jihadists in our operations center? Hardly.
At some point, we’ve got to admit reality.
Reality is that Romney was a liberal. Reality is that many of our congressional leaders are actually working against us. Reality is that the primary process was implemented to get rid of incumbents who weren’t measuring up.
You are an honest person, Servant.
Thank you.
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