"Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are.
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home. "
Read the rest...........it's worth it. Get a liberal to read it. We have a country to save. Thanks for the tip, Joe!
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home. "
Read the rest...........it's worth it. Get a liberal to read it. We have a country to save. Thanks for the tip, Joe!
21 comments:
Word!
Obama would pick up with Iran where Jimmy Carter left off....
Deaner
I just printed out his latest column this morning so that my husband could read it later when he has time. Such a wise man.
Dr. Sowell is so astute and so brilliant. All that with a big dose of common sense.
He cuts to the chase. For me, in this election, there is one issue. The war against the Islamo-fascist barbarians at the gate.
We can joke about holding our noses when we vote. We can joke about the absence of conservative values. We can joke.
The threat we are under is no joke. We are at war. Plain and simple. Just the unvarnished truth, and while there are those out there who dance around it, my friends here, as I, know it's the 800 lb. gorilla in the room, and he's not leaving without a fight.
So, kudos to Dr. Sowell, and I concur. This election demands a vote for Senator McCain who will stay on offense in this war. It will not wait for four years. Indeed, it's a no-brainer.
Pris
Deaner, right! And thanks for the tip (and for commenting!) and say HI to KS!
Karen...you husband or Sowell? (smile!)
And Pris.......four years of Obama would probably feel like setting us back FORTY years, particularly with the SCOTUS seats he'd get to fill. Sadly, the Left's harping on abortion now; I think they got a memo a few days ago because I'm hearing PLENTY about how "We can't let them overturn Roe v Wade...think SCOTUS!" from the Left. And, sadly, that resonates with a LOT of people.
Let's all get something straight, folks: Obama's handlers are cunning and conniving and VERY, VERY good. The things I'm hearing Obama say the last few days appeal to a LOT of people. And they're not even SEEING how he said one thing at AIPAC last week and turned against that the NEXT DAY!
By the way, Joe Biden is now saying it's GOOD for HIS POLITICIAN OBAMA to change his mind as it shows that he's learning! IS THAT RICH? ISn't THAT appealing to our idiot liberal kids who are so warm and cuddly?
YIKE. The Left is SOOOO good. and SO bad.
90% of what he wrote was dead on. An Obama Presidency would indeed bring foreign policy disaster. And economic disaster, AND Constitutional disaster. It's funny how he mentioned that not since 1972 has there been a poorer choice of candidates. He's right!
Nixon was a liberal in MANY ways. Not as many as McCain, but I can see why TS was disgusted with the choice between Nixon and McGovern. Nixon grew the government tremendously, much to the chagrin of conservatives.
As much as I admire Mr. Sowell and LOVE his book, "Basic Economics", he was actually WRONG on a vital point in his article. He wrote:
"But, when all is said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America. On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies,..."
Totally wrong! McCain spent the first 6.5 years of the Bush Administration undermining the Conservative agenda as revenge for being rejected in the 1999 primaries. He was undermining the President AND us Conservatives and he did it with RELISH! The Democrats are the people he continuously worked with in his vengeful "schemes" and they ARE the internal enemy who HATES America. He has not "paid a price" AT ALL for double crossing his base. As a matter of fact the OPPOSITE is the truth in this case. The NYT's bimbo story/hit piece is the FIRST negative press this backstabbing liberal has seen in a LOOOOOOONG time. Other than that Johnny boy has been a regular hero in the mainstream press.
I HATE the fact that he's the only choice in this election. I !@#$%^& HATE the fact that the Liberatrians are suicidally stupid when it comes to foreign affairs, and the Populist/Liberal pile of %@#$ John McCain is the only sane choice! I'm still not sure if I'm going to vote fore him. I may leave that space blank or write in Mitch McConnell!
BTW the 1st and 2nd Amendments are NOT safe with McCain or Obama, so stock up on your weapons before the election. It sure felt good to get that out of my system. :-)
Morgan
Perfect isn't an option this November. And neither is stupidity.
We might not get all we want. But if we all pray hard enough, we just might get what we need.
Morgan! YOU, of ALL people, know that a NON VOTE is a vote FOR RACK AND RUIN with Obama! We have to be realistic and realize the SCOTUS MIGHT be more honest under McCain, and that we can't have higher taxes and we need to stay in Iraq till we've got some more success there. Please don't be telling people not to vote!! I mean, you're entitled to your opinion, and surely you've thought about all this, but........ yikes!
Now, get busy writing my piece about why Jews vote Democrat that you promised us!.....or if they really ARE!? write, write!!!
xxx
Z, honestly, do you trust him on judges and taxes? If so WHY? He'll be facing a Dem Congress who will NOT allow an Alito, Roberts, Thomas, or Scalia to make the bench. So he'll finally pass a Souter through. I know, that's marginally better than Ginsberg, just barely.
As for taxes, see the above. McCain fought the President's tax cuts with class warfare rhetoric! Z, this SCHMUCK has been working overtime in the last five days to infuriate conservatives like you and I. Have you heard him slam the oil copmpanies for their "greed" in the last few days? G-d I heaven I hate his liberal guts!
Sorry Z, I can't get over his treachery.
Morgan
Z if you want to erase my posts about McCain I don't blame you, they aren't helpful in the least. I PROMISE not to say anything bad about him anymore. I understand the stakes and I'll ignore the McCain subject from now on. Sorry for the attitude. :-)
Morgan
Morgan, I NEVER want you not to tell your truth here. It's in the real world, where lefties are everywhere, I hope you don't give them too much anti-McCain ammo.
I guess I just despise Obama's lack of character and experience and his socialist tendencies SO much that ANYBODY is better. And we have to vote for that cruddy nobody. And NOT voting IS voting for Obama, you know that!! EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT (you know that, you're from FLA, for heaven's sake, right?!!)
And yes, I think mcCain's sincere now about keeping taxes low.
And he won't back off the fight against terrorism, which Pris expresses so well in her comments.
Good advice. Thanks Z.
I'll get busy with a good attitude-and maybe a Yuengling or two-and get that opinion piece done before COB tomorrow!
Me
Hey Morgan,
I think it's convenient to blame the Maverick's behavior on spite. Is he a nutbag on drilling and global warning to spite Bush too?
The bottom line Sowell is getting at is McCain is the candidate to vote for, period!
Try to take comfort in his recent impromptu diddy, "Bomb, bomb, bomb... bomb, bomb, Iran"
God bless,
Deaner
I am a long time fan of Mr. Sowell. He is one of my personal heroes.
McCain isn't my first choice, or my second, or third, for that matter, but in a contest between him & Obammy, there is no contest...
America, wake up! Obama is so out in left field that he makes Hillary look moderate.
McCain is far from perfect, but allowing the libs to rule all three branches of government is unacceptable.
We have more of a chance of holding McCain's feet to the conservative fire, than we have of trying to channel Obama's gamma ray burst into socialism America-style.
Hold your noses if you must, but hold your noses & vote for McCain.
Morgan, what's HUGELY funny is YOU taking any advice from ME, when I admire you so much! Thanks for the vote of confidence...and yes, start writing...and what's COB? sorry!!?
Deaner, do you think Maverick could change back to more conservative thinking if he wins? I've been thinking he knows he'll probably only have four years and can do exactly what he wants these four years because of it (except that he's going to have a HUGELY Dem congress so it won't be easy. THIS is why we need a maverick, someone even the left..good, UNLESS if McCain caves to them.......he's been known to, but IS it to tick Bush off, all this pandering he's done these last eight years? who knows?)
cube? BRAVO. Hear the applause? I'm with you .
Something must be wrong with TownHall.com. I tried all the links to Thomas Sowell and couldn't get them.
:(
I read somewhere that whichever candidate gets elected, they will be handed the 'bag'(American economy) with a huge hole in the bottom.
Can you say, "sucker"?
To bad Dr. Sowell isn't the republican candidate...wouldn't THAT be a hoot? And nobody could be browbeaten as a racist...
Good morning, G*D bless and Maranatha!
tmw
I remember saying somewhere a long time ago, i think back when the Republicans were still squabbling over who would lead the party, McCain had better hope that Conservatives fear B. Hussein much more than the dislike him.
I don't know why, but the GOP seems to think that getting people to vote for you because they like your policies is the same as them voting for you because they don't like the other guy.
There is a silver lining for the Conservatives, though it carries a lot of short-term pain. If Obambi wins and the economy tanks, which it probably will to some extent even under the best leadership, taxes will go up, unemployment will go up, so will crime, but it's Democrats in Congress and Democrat in the White House. So whatever goes wrong, it's all on Obambi, no one else.
Then if the GOP has their policies right and can get their act together, they can just waltz into the Whitehouse at the next election.
fj wrote:
"Perfect isn't an option this November."
It never has been an option in any election I can remember. But then I'm only 45. AWFUL has never been the ONLY option either.
Morgan
"Something must be wrong with TownHall.com. I tried all the links to Thomas Sowell and couldn't get them."
Mike I've had that problem too.
Morgan
AWFUL has never been the ONLY option either.
It was in 2000. I voted for Nader. Then, in 2004, I "wrote in" my best friend's name for President.
AWFUL has been the only choice since 1984.
Sadly, I'm with fj on 'awful', but I have voted every time for the least awful.
MK, your dangerous hypothesis isn't easy to read because it's so popular and so plausible. I spoke to a hugely conservative friend last night with that attitude "if the Republicans win this election, everything's so bad with a Dem congress anyway, it's US they'll hate when things fall apart...so let the Dem win!"
I reminded him that 'they'(media, lefties, commies, illegals, bums) hate Republicans ANYWAY, so is it worth risking the country's future? His feeling was it's 'no big deal' if the Dems get elected this year because our country's in such bad shape the Dems won't survive for a second term, anyway. My feeling is my country's too important to risk not surviving just because I don't like a candidate so I didn't vote at all (thereby giving my vote to the other side).
HERE IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, THOUGH:
THE SUPREME COURT. We will NEVER recover to our traditional values of strict constructionism if Obama wins and selects biased judges as many have suggested (I've even heard libs promote that, as if it's cool to do that!?). These are judges with lifetime appointments.
Also, I believe McCain is FAR tougher (I mean REALLY FAR TOUGHER) than Bush and might actually not cave to Dems on most important issues and might even bring THEM around. What Bush mistook for UNITY and 'reaching across the aisle' seems to have finally joined with what the Left thinks UNITY means, which is; Agreeing with the left on everything. (as a wiser person than I sad in a comment on another blog the other day, "the only thing Bush got for reaching across the aisle was some missing fingers")
Off Topic; I'm just listening to clip of a Mrs. Obama speech where she reminds us all of what her husband has done for young mothers who feel their government doesn't care about them.
WHY SHOULD the government care any more than it should care for any of us? Isn't it up to them and their husband/family/church/synagogue/friends to care? THIS is why we can't vote for a liberal.
Message to 'young mothers' (buzz word 'unmarried, so I can't make ends meet') MARRY first. If you get into trouble, see your family or your priest/rabbi. The government doesn't owe you for your mistake.
Hard hearted sounding, isn't it? well, in general, this is how we all should feel; maybe it would make young girls actually take responsibility for their lives before they get 'young' (in trouble)! Sort of like "youths" is suddenly the name for muslim troublemakers in our communities..the YOUTH is the buzz word.
I'm ranting ,. You'll all be happy to see I'm stopping now!
TMW: I'd vote for Sowell ... I'd campaign for Sowell. he's a hero, isn't he.
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