Posted on 02/16/2016 5:33:10 AM PST by TBBT
Noting with sorrow Justice Scalia’s death, Sowell begs his readers to sober up:
The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a President of the United States, just one of whose many powers is the power to nominate justices of the Supreme Court.
After enumerating these, and indirectly reminding readers that the next president is apt to be a wartime president, he makes his views about Trump perfectly clear:
Against this background, the frivolous rhetoric and childish antics in the televised political “debates†are painful to watch. If ever there was a time to choose a president with depth, rather than glitter or glibness, this is it.
Trump’s behavior is often that of an “overgrown spoiled brat,†he remarks:
If, by some miracle, Trump became president, what kind of president would he be? Do we need another self-centered know-it-all in the White House to replace the one we have now?
(Excerpt) Read more at ricochet.com ...
Cruz does better in the actual primaries than he does in the polls. That’s what I’m expecting in the next primary ...
“In fairness, Trump said no SENATOR had endorsed Cruz. I believe that statement is correct.
No Senator had endorsed Trump either. So what.
“Every one of Trump’s positions is pro-America..”
Pro big American government is not pro-America.
I’m not sure, but you are missing the point. Trump is not in the senate, Cruz is. Senators are his co-workers, if you will.
Gave him a pass on his race?
How magnanimous of you.
“No problem, I was gonna sit out but for the 1st time in my life I will hold my nose and vote against trump in the general.”
As will I, I don’t like Trump and I like his supporters even less.
Well, part of this is the understanding that if it’s “believers” vs “non-believers,” who’se in the club? Unitarians? Quakers? Seventh-Day Adventists? Mormons? Christian Scientists?
Then it gets to Anglicans, Catholics . . . . It’s precisely what Madison was afraid of: any alignment with one denomination would quickly lead to oppression of others. So, with Muslims it can’t be “religious” as much as constitutional: since they cannot swear allegiance to the Constitution and disavow their “taqiyya” heritage, citizenship is problematic.
“I’m not sure, but you are missing the point. Trump is not in the senate, Cruz is.”
So if one doesn’t have any, it’s a knock on him. If the other doesn’t have any, it’s a badge of honor? Double standard much?
Well,,, you may not be the wisest person on this thread, but you are certainly the most honest. : )
Ha ha, I wish you lots of luck with that line. If you ask for the bull you get the horns.
I’m sure licking libs is your hobby, along with maybe some nutritional value? If I were you, I would ask your lib friends to wear condoms.
Good to hear from the arbiter of this matter.
Since I'm sure you weren't for the whole thinf, you are saying you are aligning yourself with code pink? Are you for the whole code pink, or just bits and pieces, period?
So opposing a big mouth code pink flip flopping manhattanite makes one a Bushbot? I can easily understand why you are so confused and conflicted. You are smitten by flashy sound bites and nicely cropped hair.
I assumed you had an IQ and were able to see that a co-worker supporting you would be of some value.
I don’t think the Trump-Suckers are right wing at all.
“I assumed you had an IQ and were able to see that a co-worker supporting you would be of some value.”
I also assumed you had an IQ and noticed like 1 senator has endorsed anybody in the entire field.
Lol, you calling me delusional is funny
Yes I'll take the constitutional conservative Schlafly over the economist Sowell.
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart, August 15, 1924) is a retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, author, and speaker and founder of the Eagle Forum.
She is known for her staunch social and political conservatism, her opposition to modern feminism, and her successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Her 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo sold over 3 million copies as a push-back against Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Eastern Republican Establishment.
She co-authored books on national defense and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union.[2] Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in the 1970s and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, St. Louis. She is currently Chairman of the Board and CEO of Eagle Forum and maintains a presence on the lecture circuit. Since 1967, she has published a newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report.
The Trump-Suckers are caught flat-footed now. As their idol exposes his true liberal inner core, they lash out at others as a distraction. Won’t work.
“Good to hear from the arbiter of this matter.”
Learned it from Cruz supporters.
“Since I’m sure you weren’t for the whole thinf, you are saying you are aligning yourself with code pink”
Actually, as I’ve said, I was completely for it back then. I totally got on the bandwagon and even taunted and trolled liberals online, saying they were “collecting checks from Uncle Saddam”. Even laughed off my parents wariness of it, who were seeing another Vietnam.
I embarrassingly had visions of the Gulf War. Short, few causalities, lots of awesome footage, and a victory parade with Iraq becoming a free nation. Not to mention the piles of nukes and poison gas that would be found to shove in the face of the doubters.
Now fast-forward into the reality of how it turned out. While I thought that the surge would finally turn it around, it was clear that it was a trillion-dollar mess that was killing American soldiers for no apparent end. We certainly didnt find a pile of WMDs that would have warranted anything more than airstrikes or a few missions by special forces.
Yeah, out of “pride” I didn’t want to admit that it was a mistake, but I came to my own conclusion (certainly not because of Code Pink) that we needed to cut our loses and get out.
Only a moron at this point (10+ years later) still sees it as a good move. Well ISIS seems to love the big chunk of Iraq they now control though.
Supporting neocon wars makes one a bushbot. Even Jeb had to admit that the war with Iraq was a mistake.
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