Posted on 10/18/2013 9:11:23 AM PDT by LS
Great perspective LS, thanks for sharing.
conservatives like Cruz are fighting a long battle. a delaying action at the national level. this was just one skirmish in a very long (probably decades) war.
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Cruz and Lee did not know the perfidy of their own party.
They were sold out by Mitch McConnell for 2 Billion dollars that went to Ky.
They were sold out by House members like King who just likes to lick Obama’s butt like it was an Ice Cream cone.
"I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. And he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them; because of just one plain simple rule: 'Love thy neighbor.'... And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any other. Yes, you even die for them."
Very good article! Thanks for posting!
While this is an interesting read, Cruz expressed his strategy over and over and over again. There was a strategy. The House would pass bills to fund specific parts of the government which they did. The senate was to fight to get these bills passed, they didn’t. Mitch McConnell fought just as hard as any democrat to short circuit the STRATEGY.
So, saying there was no strategy isn’t accurate. We may not have gotten the defunding that we started asking for, but we could have gotten a delay to the individual mandate. You always bid high in any negotiation, unless you are RINOs. RINOs bid low and pat themselves on the back for capitulating to every liberal whim.
it is, the most insightful one posted today, imo, but thank LS. he posted it.
Obama's victory was Pyrrhic. He lost 3 weeks of valuable legislative time that could have been used to further his agenda. All he got was a meaningless victory lap when the GOPe capitulated.
Does anyone in the room think there will be a budget deal by December 15? I thought not.
Nevertheless, as I said early, the strategy would have worked if the entire GOP senate had been united.
General Washington lost many battles and sounded retreat many times before audacity and courage turned the tide. The Leftists are nervous. We should expect them to do what they always do - overreach.
Great minds....I was making the Doolittle argument on a talk show in NC earlier this week with some establishment hack who was trying to criticize Cruz and Lee. He claims to be a history buff, so I crushed him with the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. He didn’t admit it, but the host made it plain.
I hope we can "buy" enough time to turn the tide, as Fabius and Doolittle did.
I would LOVE to see/hear that clip! I bet you did destroy him.
Oh I did....a fact that was lost on him sadly. I’m telling you, that conventional wisdom kool aid is some strong brew for these estab hacks.
....shoulda heard some of the conference calls we had inside Winning Our Future’s Super PAC....where I was the only non estab consultant. Lotta wordy dirds.......if you know what I mean.. especially over the Bain Capital ad.
These estab types are incredibly ignorant yet intransigent....
That’s what I call a great post! Thanks for sharing it with us. I appreciate your perspeective and agree with your conclusions. Well done!
Lost in these discussions is the fact that gridlock was what the American people voted for in 2012! Obama did not get the blank check that he got in 2008, because a sufficient number of American citizens do not believe in his agenda.
Right ON! We need to think in terms of bold moves—Think Outside the Box! A few ideas that rattled in my anger filled brain. We must not give in to the pain of defeat.
1. Start the Liberty Party Now-—BUT-—Get the Democrats to fund it! Get Soros to pay thinking it will split the vote like Ross Perot—Get some colorful people to back it like stars and Radio people! BUT it would be a stalking horse—a Trojan Horse! Maybe run a colorful fellow (Trump? Kelsy Graman?) to run for President—Then just before the election they drop out and endorse the GOP!
2. Bolt the GOP and Join the Democrats! Start a new group within the Democrats called the Jacksonian Democrats and support Conservative-Traditionalist Blue Dog People! Work from within to undermine the liberals with their own people—many of them do not like what is happening to their party!
3. Tea Party should link with the Conservative Black Churches—they hate what’s happening to their young people. They are natural allies! First goal—knock out Rap and Gangsta Music and Drugs that are a genocide to Black Youth.
4. We need a conservative Newspaper even if its on the net. We can’t depend on Fox and Beck to haul the water for us. BUT—cover the news with our point of view in a funny and “snarky” way—so cutting that young people and even the most die hard Liberals will read it! Liberty News with a picture of Ben Franklin and the bell on the Masthead—Motto: “Let Liberty ring thoughout the Land”. Fight from within in new ways.
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