Cruz control. Mark it down.
I hope you're right.
At this late date, less than two years out, especially after you and I together, with passionate mutual dismay, watched Gingrich go down in flames in 2012 -- I'm less sanguine. I expect the GOP will continue its leftward course in accepting three or more of the Democrat cornerstones of government oversight of health care, wage controls, forced acceptance of open homosexuality, abortion on demand, gun control, usurping of charity with amoral welfare entitlements ("compassionate" government), and all the rest of the government leviathan "for our own good," all in service to us, of course.
I tell you true, C. Edmund Wright, that government is only a force, as per George Washington's vision. It is a force established as a servant of the people -- he warned it would be a dangerous servant. In 21st century America, over-use of that government force, politicians wielding a liberal hand with government, turned the servant into a tyrant.
If once again in 2016 Americans are expected to vote for either a Republican or a Democrat agent of that tyranny or else be "irrelevant," if you're wrong and the Republican party does what it did in 2012 and 2008 (without my input -- in California Republicans have zero say for the party's presidential choice except as a formality), then ...
... well, what then? Because you see, no matter how Romney or Bush or Santorum or Christie "campaign," I already know where they stand; they have records and words and speeches and actions. Frankly, I think it's pretty foolish to expect anything but government tyranny from a guy who is happy to vote for minimum wage increases six times, or happy to use government force to make adoption agencies cooperate with homosexual "parents" seeking to "start a family." Voting for anyone with a standing record of advancing that stuff, is nuts. Plain and simple. I've done it, and am done with it.
The most important question to me is, say Cruz runs and loses for the Republican primary -- can he still run on an Independent ticket? To me, that is the most pressing question in terms of our best bet through the ballot box of turning things around.
A curious thing has occurred to me. I find myself in a party filled with people who are perfectly willing to vote for everything I want to lose.
Why are we in the same party?