"Many people are looking to the many primary elections on March
6th -- 'Super Tuesday' -- to clarify where this year's Republican nomination
campaign is headed. It may clarify far more than that, including the future of
this nation and of Western civilization. If a clear winner with a commanding
lead emerges, the question then becomes whether that candidate is someone who is
likely to defeat Barack Obama. If not, then the fate of America -- and of
Western nations, including Israel -- will be left in the hands of a man with a
lifelong hostility to Western values and Western interests. ... The election
next November will not be just another election, and the stakes add up to far
more than the sum of the individual issues. Moreover, if reelected and facing no
future election, whatever political constraints may have limited how far Obama
would push his radical agenda will be gone. He would have the closest thing to a
blank check. Nothing could stop him but impeachment or a military coup, and both
are very unlikely. A genial corrupter is all the more dangerous for being
genial. The four remaining Republican candidates have to be judged, not simply
by whether they would make good presidents, but by how well they can cut through
Obama's personal popularity and glib rhetoric, to alert the voters as to the
stakes in this year's election. ... Do any of the Republican candidates seem
ideal? No. But, the White House cannot be left vacant, while we hope for a
better field of candidates in 2016. We have to make our choice among the
alternatives actually available, of which Obama is by far the worst."
--economist Thomas Sowell
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