As they say in the Air Force, you don't receive flak unless you are over target.
Posted on 10/12/2013 2:44:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
Jonathan Bernstein considers what the pointless shutdown fight has done to Ted Cruz’s political prospects:
It’s one thing to have a reputation as a loudmouth; it’s quite another to have a reputation as a loser. That’s what the shutdown fight has done to Cruz. Among true believers he’ll be the one who was a leader in a fight that surely would have won if the squishes hadn’t sold them out. But for most party actors, including many sympathetic to Tea Partyism, he’s going to be the guy who ran up the wrong hill.
It would have been different if Cruz’s gamble had been over a minor issue that drew little attention, but the purpose of the gamble all along seems to have been to turn Cruz into a national figure and link his name to some of the most important issues available. It succeeded in making him better known, but in every other respect it has backfired badly. More important, Cruz didn’t just misread the political landscape and support a strategy that had zero chance of success, but he did so in a way that maximized intra-party divisions, burned bridges with most of his colleagues, and distinguished himself as a self-seeking bomb-thrower who ended up helping to blow up his party’s own standing. Granted, Cruz didn’t do this all by himself, and there are many others that contributed to the mess the GOP finds itself in today, but he very much wanted to be identified as the leader of the effort, and now he will pay for it.
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As they say in the Air Force, you don't receive flak unless you are over target.
The long knives are out in full force to try to deter any
further challenges to their stranglehold over the Pubs!
I think real conservatives appreciate the effort.
If the GOP caves, the loser is the American people. Thanks to John Boehner I’ve been prepared to see the republicans lose the House long before the shutdown issue.
Of course the RINOs and democrats will blame the republican loss on Ted Cruz. Nothing new.
He didn’t lose anything; he did what he set out to do. He scares these people who want the Repubs to stay the same —
To the author: Its about bold colors, not plain pastel. Clearly showing where conservatives stand. Its about truly being the opposition party, not the party of perpetually crossing the aisle and bending over. Its about standing for principles and actually doing something about it.
The author is an idiot propagandist. When was the last time the GOP ran up any hill, right or wrong? The author is another dimwit who has surrendered to socialism.
It looks like these media-invested so called Conservatives have made their play to remain what they think is ‘relevant’.
What they have succeeded in doing it to out themselves to the rest of the world as nothing more than fake ideologues who want to keep the status quo so their particular little comfortable world won’t be upset.
You’re just another appeaser, Daniel. I think I’ll just throw you on the trash heap with Rove et al.
Seems somehow that any conservative who has any chance at all of accomplishing anything draws the ire, and heavy artillery, of the Liberal press.
They quickly bring out the nukes for intense pre-emptive attacks.
The same thing happened to Sarah Palin.
“But for most party actors, including many sympathetic to Tea Partyism, he’s going to be the guy who ran up the wrong hill.”
Oh Bull Poopie! Ted Cruz has the vision & the fortitude to fight for what’s right (so much so that he even inspired a spine- however temporary, in John Boehner).
Frikkin Ryan is the person to blame here, imho. I think McWacko & Linda Graham were surmountable. Once Ryan stuck his fat face into it, it started going to H-E- double L in a hand basket. This time, I *don’t* blame Boehner.
There are less than a handful worth keepin’. The others need to start packin’.
carp.
What debacle?
Hey Daniel, if you want to see a loser, look in the mirror you fool. These surrender monkeys make me want to throw up. What kind of publication is this "American Conservative" to put up this loser's article.
“I think real conservatives appreciate the effort.”
Heard Cruz on C span at ‘Values’ in DC. He IS the real deal and living in the heads of rats rent free..
We have too much debt
We have too much government
One poll from the Ministry of Propaganda and a loser like Bernswine heads for the hills. Another Juan-a-be philater.
Who is Daniel Larison and why should I care what he thinks?
Cruz is the only reason I’m still a Republican. . ..which will not be for much longer if this kind of assault continues.
Same exact thing they said about Sarah Palin...
Who is this Larison guy? He’s writing like those Cruz-bashing RINOs at the newly liberal Fox News. I thought the American Conservative was actually conservative.
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