If only we had someone else to energize the base...
Posted on 03/02/2014 10:42:53 PM PST by neverdem
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If only we had someone else to energize the base...
Cruz is just another politician. He has already stabbed us in the back on amnesty, and the more secure his power becomes, the more he’ll vote with the leftards.
The important thing, is that all these people are talking about Ted Cruz.
My bias: I support Ted Cruz and I accept the premise laid down by Michael Walsh:
The party in D.C. will go on, spending like there’s no tomorrow because, in fact, there is no tomorrow. And then it will stop.
Accepting that premise, the only question which remains is how do we shape the "culture" to accept the charisma offered by Ted Cruz on the assumption, contrary to poster dsc that Ted Cruz will sell us out and indeed has already sold us out. My reply is that if Ted Cruz ain't your man, you have no man and you have no hope. Either we go with Cruz and Mike Lee or we stay with what we have which is Groundhog Day and the flat-out insanity of repeating the inputs over and over again expecting different results
J. Christian Adams addresses the issue head-on: will the Ronald Reagan message sell again or are the Rinos correct and we have to go along to get along? The answer is clear, if we go along,
there is no tomorrow. And then it will stop.
Whether a bareknuckle conservative message can still win elections is an argument that is rendering the Republican Party in twain but it is to me perfectly clear after the experience of the Bush administration with Republican majorities in both Houses that unless we have a bareknuckle conservative government we will have no tomorrow.
So the argument about winning or losing on conservative values is moot, if we don't win on those values we lose anyway.
With only a few voices crying out in the Washington wilderness, and seemingly none save that few to challenge the illegal acts of this administration, what reason would the average schmuck have to quit watching the ongoing saga of Honey Boo-Boo and go cast a ballot for people of either party who are just going to screw him over anyway?
The Republican Party has built one heck of a track record for throwing Conservatives under the bus--so much so that many Conservatives do not feel they have any representation in DC from either party.
Short of galvanizing voters into voting so overwhelmingly for a conservative candidate that the candidate prevails against the imported multiple and undocumented voters of the Left, the status quo will prevail, because those in the party, and to a similar degree, the electorate, want just that.
And when did he do that?
Amen...!
In my case particularly, Bill Straub could never be more wrong.
My thoughts exactly. Possibly he is confusing Cruz with Rubio.
/johnny
Cruz has never stabbed us in the back on amnesty. He is the best thing going for us on the Right.
I hope he is a big MINUS for Republicans and a plus for Constitutional conservatives in the primaries.
If Ted Cruz isn’t good for the Republican Party than neither am I. I’m already half gone. No new RINOs.
The Establishment has made inroads into CPAC. The RINO goal, naturally, is to get the primary into their hands and out of ours. They are using even conservative media play alongs to start the process.
Probably there are plenty of sour grapes over Cruz. but mostly the RINO crowd is very nervous where Cruz is concerned and need to bounce him around, before post time. The point is to weaken Cruz, among his own.
Getting supposed conservatives at CPAC to go wobbly on Cruz would be of prime importance to the Establishment Club.
Rand Paul has proven no threat yet to the old boys club. Having played poker with McConnell, Rand may have bought some time with the RINO machine, but they want more milquetoast, like big government Jeb, who seems unalarmed by anything on the earth, ever. Or, noisier versions, like Christy, but not serious conservatives, not Cruz.
FIRST: Ya gotta define “Republican.”
Right now, the term is almost meaningless.
great observation
I don’t recall Cruz ever favoring amnesty or voting for the left Dems/RINOs proposals.
I see you’ve been here on FR for many years, but that posting comes across like something a far left troll would make.
It’s actually easy to answer this question.
1) Voters adore a clear, concise message, even more than the content of that message.
2) Only the media likes and demands that elections are beauty contests and horse races. The public wants knock down-drag outs, a clear choice between one side or the other.
3) Political losers are those who try to run with the other parties’ platform. “Moderates” only win when the voters are exhausted by radical change and just want peace and quiet, to be left alone, and to not see the BLOFUS every time they look at the news.
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