Posted on 03/24/2015 3:29:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cinematically, as well as politically, we are sort of in a John Wayne moment: which is where Ted Cruz comes in.
Things in this town of ours ain’t a-going real good right now. Everything, in fact, seems to be falling apart, save in the eyes of folk who wish America would either drop into the sea or fall in line with President Obama’s preachments and prescriptions.
Wait! A sudden thunder of hooves in the distance! A shout! A shot! It’s… It’s… Ted Cruz, declaring his candidacy for the U.S. presidency.
I do not want to be understood as mocking a serious candidate at an undoubtedly serious moment in national affairs. The point is: Would he be volunteering to save us if the feeling weren’t so widespread that we need saving, and fast?
Cruz’s emergence as a rootin’-tootin’ presidential candidate — almost in the sagebrush-saga mold — indicates just how lousy things have gotten: divisions over police shootings, anger over presidential executive orders, fears over larger if less competent government, anxiety over breakdowns in schooling and family structure. The day of Cruz’s announcement, the New York Times’ lead story proclaimed: “Out of Yemen, U.S. Is Hobbled in Terror Fight/Advisers Are Evacuated/Militants in Region Are Seen as Major Threat to Americans.”
We haven’t glimpsed so much fed-upness and woe in America since the late ’70s, when inflation, the energy crisis, and the Iran hostage crisis came near to causing national psychological breakdown. We yearned for John Wayne, or someone, to come boiling over the hill — bugles blowing “Charge” — and sort things out once and for all. By no coincidence, perhaps, the voters hired a pal of Big John’s, Ronald Reagan, who proceeded, with growing cooperation on Congress’s part, to restore American prosperity and thwart the Soviet threat....
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One of the problems is the horrifyingly large bureaucracy, which is solidly statist by definition and acts in every manner to defend itself. Its a tenacious parasite feeding off of the Republic with hydra-like defense mechanisms.
One man, no matter how well intentioned or capable, can cut off enough heads to defeat it.
We need 500-1000 strong Constitutionalists named to oversight positions in the bureaucracy, working 24/7, to even make a dent.
When cuts are made, the bureaucracy first cuts away meat and bone. The fat is the last thing it will give up.
If you work for the FED, you are not my countrymen. Bottom line. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to that, but it is in fact the case as far as I’m concerned.
John Wayne was also a great patriot, who had a great influence on America, and who fought for conservatism and traditional America.
If you are old enough, then you remember how the media and the left hated him and ridiculed him as an actor, and how he kept opposing them, and making films to counter their anti-Americanism.
Wayne had an incredible and positive influence on America, and he was doing it on purpose.
I agree, a POTUS is temporary, congress is unfortunately forever. I like Cruz, he’s really smart, but can he lead, that’s the question.
He might have fought for conservatism and traditional America but he didn’t fight the Nazis or Japs, he was to busy acting and whoring it up.
JOHN WAYNE, WORLD WAR II AND THE DRAFT
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2010/02/28/john-wayne—world-war-ii-and-the-draft/
My larger point is that I don’t cotton to the notion of political saviors. People are fallible. That’s not a swipe at Cruz in any way. Its just a reminder that we don’t have a monarchy.
In a Constitutional Republic, our government won’t change until our citizenry does. The second largest threat to our freedom right now is a Leftist bureaucracy. The primary threat is a majority of people who support it.
That is high praise indeed.Must be something to the guy.
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