If Ted Cruz is our 2016 nominee the analogy will match Goldwater, not Reagan. Great conservative but he’ll get crushed. He is Goldwater different time, same result. Don’t find out the hard way.
if you want a contemporary Ted Cruz analogy it’s Nancy Pelosi. Leftists love to hate Cruz just like we love to hate Pelosi. Democrats will NEVER win the House with Pelosi because the American middle finds it easy to hate Pelosi in a way they just can’t get riled up about Boehner, and leftists just don’t get it. Ditto Cruz - he’s our Pelosi, a great conservative, but despised by the middle for the government shut down. The shutdown is our Obamacare and it’s costing us perhaps 5% in the polls right now.
What we need - and I hate to say this - is a charismatic spokesman for our cause. We all assume that Reagan proved once and for all that free markets and peace-through-strength were good policies. But we have a new generation that “knew not Joseph” so to speak, who know not Reagan, who know not Carter.
Chris Christie is NOT my favorite “conservative” but he knows how to handle east-coast media snobs. When they argue with him they lose and when it’s over they know that they’ve lost.
east coast media: Minimum wage should be $15/hour
Christ Christie: That’s a stupid idea because... parents... kids... aspire.
east coast media: You’re fat.
That’s where Christie’s girth becomes an advantage - when liberals know they’ve lost the argument they resort to blatant,transparent ad hominems, which merely serves to underscore the extent of their defeat.
If Ted Cruz is our 2016 nominee the analogy will match Goldwater, not Reagan. Great conservative but he’ll get crushed. He is Goldwater different time, same result. Don’t find out the hard way. Come up to present time, my friend.
This country is on a knife's edge of tension, and there's little left of the nation's foundation stones our forefathers toiled to set in place. We are inches away from some truly historic moment in our nation's history. One that won't be remembered fondly by most who are forced to live through it.
We're going to need a Commander In Chief of extraordinary courage and capabilities to keep the ship of state from capsizing altogether. Politics as usual and 'general wisdom' aren't going to cut it when the very fabric of the social order is being ripped apart.
We're going to need a President whose mindset and caliber of character closely matches those of the Framers, who by your definition, would be considered unelectable right-wing radicals today.
In fact, we are *this close* to passing the stage where a political solution is even possible.
Oh yes -- we need someone just like Barry Goldwater or Ted Cruz to fight our way back from the brink.