Dr. Thomas Sowell does it again, cutting right to the chase in his hard-hitting analysis of the underpinnings of the recent presidential election — and those yet to come. His column, Is Demography Destiny? is not merely more Monday morning quarterbacking.
Sowell writes: “Conventional wisdom in the Republican establishment is that what the GOP needs to do, in order to win black votes or Hispanic votes, is to craft policies specifically targeting these groups. In other words, Republicans need to become more like Democrats.
Whether in a racial context or in other contexts, the supposed need for Republicans to become more like Democrats has long been a recurring theme of the moderate Republican establishment, going back more than half a century.
Yet the most successful Republican presidential candidate during that long period was a man who went completely counter to that conventional wisdom — namely, Ronald Reagan, who won back to back landslide election victories.”
Do yourself a favor today and read this cogent commentary. It will add clarity to your thoughts as you listen to the establishment types opine on our need to abandon principles for pandering and become Republican-lite.
Dr. Sowell is my favorite. He’s highly intelligent and tells it like it is. Here, he minces no words.
Thanks, “Seeing Red AZ”! Superb article! This is my favorite quote from it:
“But the Republicans’ greatest failure has been precisely their chronic failure to spell out their principles– and the track record of those principles– to either white or non-white voters.”
What could possibly be more demeaning of minorities than to assume that they need to be “bought” and that they are incapable of buying into Conservative principles on the merits of those principles? As the article states, Ronald Reagan proved that to be false!
Why is it we all know that the Ronald Reagan campaign has always been the most successful. Yet we have the so-called elites of the party constantly telling us to moderate our views? We get these candidates shoved down our throats and yes Mitt was too, but he was still better than BHO. Mitt won the nomination because he debated as a real Conservative, but then ran a campaign as a, hell I am at a loss for what his campaign really was except an exoneration for McCain. And yes I am disgusted about that.