<<< I am Teaparty, but, maybe it is time we all start listening to respected folks within the party
A leading tea party intellectual has turned against the tea party movement’s favorite senator.
Economist Thomas Sowell, who has long been revered among conservatives, has slammed Sen. Ted Cruz in his last two columns, accusing the Texas Republican of being self-serving and comparing him to President Obama.
“Freshman Senator Ted Cruz says many things that need to be said and says them well,” Sowell wrote in his syndicated column Tuesday, before going on to compare Cruz to President Obama. “Moreover, some of these things are what many, if not most, Americans believe wholeheartedly. Yet we need to remember that the same was true of another freshman Senator, just a relatively few years ago, who parlayed his ability to say things that resonated with the voters into two terms in the White House.” [Of course, Dr Sowell has Obama in mind as he writes this last sentence].
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/19/conservative-legend-thomas-sowell-turns-on-ted-cruz/#ixzz2tpkOebG9
I did not agree with your flip on the teaparty, but I, too, very much respect Thomas Sowell, a true intellectual. Of course, Mr. Cruz is very much an intellectual, as well, his time at Princeton and Harvard proving the point; a very accomplished gentleman. Maybe Sowell is wrong in his opinion but it needs to be given attention. He has earned our respect as conservatives.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't much care for the term "flip." I remain a teaparty conservative, but I never believed in dividing the party to the extent it is divided and I am tired of Beck's (I love the guy) thinking that if you are "big government" to any degree, you are a Progressive. When everyone is a "progressive," the distinction is not a distinction at all. Glenn has done much for the movement, but I do disagree with him on this point. Also, I believe that most social issues, including abortion, should be decided at the state level. To nationalize the debate on abortion, for example, as Rick Santorum wants to do, is a sure formula for defeat. Besides, many more of the unborn can be saved by a state-level strategy while we fail and fail, legislatively, on a national level. The "all or nothing" approach to life for the unborn, sadly . . . very sadly, is a failing strategy and we conservatives need to learn this point.
ReplyDeleteYes, power to the states will create a divided nation. Progressive states where abortion rights are protected, healthcare is universal, education is prioritized, etc... Then you have the theocratic regressive states that lead the nation is obesity, lack of educational attainment, economic inequality, defacto segregation, attacks on women's rights, etc... it's best to leave the regressives to their own devises and cut their federal aid since they contribute the least. Eventually, the regressives will suffer and die off, making way for a new progressive America.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should actually read the 10th Amendment. "States Rights and governance" is as old as the nation, itself, and IS THE SYSTEM ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR POPULACE GOVERNANCE by the founders. Theocracy on the state level would be fine, if the people within that state decided for that form of government, but, to date, no state as ever done so. Keep in mind that your "theocratic regressive states" were all, Democrat Party states. Defacto and legislative segregation, refusal to allow for the women vote, the KKK, segregationist Jim Crow laws that kept blacks from voting and in the poorest of schools insisting that they were dumber than most and not fully human, these are all ideas pushed forward by the Democrat Party.
ReplyDeleteNo state has ever done so? Think again. And maybe, just maybe you should stop being so regressive and living in the past. Todays party of Jim Crow, theocracy, science denial and bigotry is alive and well in Red state America. --- regressive theocrats alive and well in America's least achieving backward states:
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