A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as "conservatives" than as "liberals." Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in both the 2008 elections and the 2006 elections.
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...when you have the high cards and still keep taking a beating, then you need to re-think how you are playing the game.
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Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their grand-daughters to live under sharia law.
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Ronald Reagan won two elections in a landslide by being Ronald Reagan — and, most important of all — explaining to a broad electorate how what he advocated would be best for them and for the country. Newt Gingrich likewise led a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives by explaining how the Republican agenda would benefit a wide range of people.
Neither of them won by pretending to be Democrats.
Or communists. But I risk redundancy there, don't I.UPDATE! Sowell's column on Wednesday is on education. Here's a bit I like:
"..the time comes to leave the classroom and go out into the real world."
I've known quite a few 'professional students' in my life. No one is more self-absorbed than a 40 year old who's going to get her third or fourth degree but has never held a full-time job and still talks, acts, thinks and dresses like the 19-year-old Freshman she once was. No one is as boring as the guy who tells you how much he knows...about everything...all the time.
Real world experience is sorely lacking, both in government and in the nicer neighborhoods. But college degrees? LOTS of those.
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