NO! It isn’t worth reading! Five or six threads on this jerk’s surrender and resignation to obscurity for the conservatives in this country.
Frankly, given what I’ve seen just today, articles by him should be frigging banned here.
Thomas Sowell is a conservative — I have no idea what you are talking about.
Or maybe I do, you don’t actually read what he says.
I'm trying to understand your violent reaction to this column, so will you please explain which part(s) of it you disagree with?
That is EXACTLY why Romney failed. It's amazing how many people here, who should know better, think that Romney lost only because he "failed to articulate" etc. etc. No, Romney lost because he was a functional liberal Democrat and everything he "articulated" revealed that TRUTH.
Gaffer, Sowell has been a wise, steady, true guide for way too many years for me to think he's all the sudden not valuable anymore because of him penning ONE opinion/observation that I think is wrong, and this is the first time I can ever recall of disputing a position held by Thomas Sowell. I am MUCH MORE INCLINED to rethink my position because if Thomas Sowell is anything, he is WISE. Only a fool would indulge in dumping him on the strength of ONE opinion disagreed with, when he has been the MOST (IMO) stellar, crystal clear voice articulating conservative principle and thinking. He has been a faithful guide and inspirer.
Everyone is entitled to a mistake or two, and this in my opinion is Sowell's -- he fails to see that if the GOPe nominates another functional Democrat in 2016, many voters will either vote third party or stay home, Sowell's advice notwithstanding. I wish that instead of warning people against rejecting liberal Republicans, he was taking steps to face the REALITY of what WILL happen if/when the Republican GOPe nominates another functional Democrat for president, and move forward on that premise -- that voters are going to reject that candidate whether it's the smart thing to do or not -- as to how to proceed in the best way. Anticipate it and work WITH it rather than try to avert it.
I am perplexed by his take on Cruz, his implication that Cruz might be the one responsible for splitting the party ... Sowell is in is 80s, I believe, and he is very wise ... but his great age now may be making him more cautious and even timid than he would have been as a younger man. Would he ever have opined thus about someone like Cruz 20 years ago? Just the same, Sowell is much too wise to disregard because of one puzzling opinion.