Primary Dilemmas
(Thomas Sowell; Human Events.com) - It is becoming increasingly and painfully clear that voters in both parties are having a hard time settling on a front runner.
Not only have different people won different primaries thus far, no one won a majority in any primary in either party -- until Hillary Clinton, running virtually unopposed in the Michigan primary, received just over half the votes, while "uncommitted" received 40 percent.
What is wrong with this year's candidates?
The short answer is that most of the Republicans are questionable and all three leading Democrats are dangerous.
Not only have different people won different primaries thus far, no one won a majority in any primary in either party -- until Hillary Clinton, running virtually unopposed in the Michigan primary, received just over half the votes, while "uncommitted" received 40 percent.
What is wrong with this year's candidates?
The short answer is that most of the Republicans are questionable and all three leading Democrats are dangerous.
posted by BP News Bureau | 2:07 PM
1 Comments:
The only real conservative candidate is former Senator Fred Thompson but his low vote totals in all the Republican primaries thus far make him a one-man endangered species.
Not true factually or logically, Dr. Sowell. Factually speaking, I can't imagine how you could classify the man to wrote McCain-Feingold to be a conservative. Logically, McCain and Thompson are issue twins, so if you believe Thompson to be conservative, you must also believe that of McCain, negating the "only conservative" line of reasoning.
It may not be emotionally satisfying to vote for the lesser of two evils but a lot depends on how bad the worse evil is. Nobody running on the Republican ticket is as dangerous as the Clintons.
Still selling pragmatism over principle, Dr. Sowell? Everyone told us the same things about Bush and Gore. It was the most important election ever. It was terrifyingly dangerous to allow Gore into the White House. If Gore had been President on 9/11/2001, why something awful would have happened after that. Who knows what it would have been, but rest assured that it would have been awful.
This is just more proof that the pubbie establishment is lining up behind Romney. And we all know how intensely they dislike having their anointed one rejected by the proles. If I was one of the other candidates, I would duck and cover right about now.
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