>> I’d say we conservatives have finally lost everything.
Some would say that. But the rest of us understand that, while fundamental principles never change, the landscape in which we operate has changed dramatically since 1980. Progressives will drive America left because they have developed a game plan that does that very well. Their way works because they accept small advances as a win and recover from setbacks easily. We keep expecting to get pushed back further and further and then throw a Hail Mary (i.e. elect the perfect candidate) and win the game.
The people we elect to Congress to hold the line have not done their duty and Obama marches from win to win. Cruz is part of this “talk, lose, whine” contingent that we count on in Congress.
If we lived in a nation that leaned right (which it used to but doesn’t anymore), then the minutiae of the Ten Commandments in a court room would be a hill to fight for. But, we have laws and NO ONE would be convicted in a court of law for violating a Commandment (because we have laws), so they really are there as a decoration. Learn from the Left: don’t fight for the forlorn hope. Find a new way and fight for that. Keep changing your attack to force them to adapt. They know how to win against your 1988 game plan.
Cruz has done his duty to fight Obama’s liberal agenda 110%. Anything else you can say is a total lie.
Chuz came right out of the box in 2013 denouncing the Republican Establishment in the Senate. More than anyone else he deserves credit for the more conservative Congress that emerged in 2014. He, Lee, Paul and Rubio have been the young guns trying to get Congress to ad the right thing. The House did get ride of Boehner, but McConnell still has a majority in the Senate. As for Trump. he has seized upon the frustration of the country and persuaded a lot of people that HE will keep his promises to act. But given what he said Saturday, I think he is at heart to the left of every member of the Republican Party in the Senate.