Why Ted Cruz is the Safest Conservative Option

[Talisker]

Like many people, I’ve been dismayed at ostensible conservatives like Ann Coulter and Thomas Sowell coming out against Ted Cruz. But in reading their arguments, I’ve noticed some very serious discrepencies between theory and reality. Two main ones, in fact.

The first is the idea of “splitting the party.” The way this goes is that the Republican Party has a finite number of members, and Ted Cruz is threatening to draw away enough of them to split the party, and enable the Rats to win.

But this argument is based on the concept of a limited number of voters. The truth is that there are far more people who don’t vote, than who do. Most people are so utterly disgusted, they refuse to play the voting game anymore. And it’s precisely because of the hypocrisy of the RINOs. Year after year these people get (re)elected to office and sit on their hands when they should be fighting the Rats. It doesn’t take a genius to see this. In fact, Cruz himself is railing against it. It’s a fact.

So what would happen if Cruz, and Tea Party Republicans, did go forward? These non-voters would get off of their hands, that’s what. And the RINOs know this, and it scares them, because there’s more than enough non-voting conservatives to get rid of every single RINO, if they had real conservatives to vote for.

So the RINOs, and their apologists, are spreading openly hypocritical arguments about losing elections. Because the truth is that what would happen if people had real conservatives to vote for is that the Republicans would start winning all over the place - not only voting out the RINOs, but also defeating the Rats once they got into office.

And that brings me to the second issue - the purpose of RINOs. RINOs exist to make sure Rats win. Period. They do this by blocking the opposition. By getting themselves into the places where the fight against the Rats is empowered - and then doing nothing. That’s why the Rats are running wild. They do NOT have the majority of the country behind them. They are rife with savage infighting. They are weak, unorganized, and constantly screwing up everything they touch and working against their own goals. So how do they keep winning? RINOs. RINOs make sure that no matter what the Rats do, they have no real opposition.

This is extremely important to remember - that the do-nothing RINOs ARE doing something important. They are enabling the Rats to WIN. That’s why when people say, “well, wouldn’t Romney have been better than Obama, shouldn’t you have gotten behind Romney to block Obama” their entire argument is absurd. Romney is a RINO. RINOs exist to LOSE to Rats. They sabotage their own campaigns, they load themselves up with repulsive Rat-lite agendas, they fawn to Rats, all to drive away conservative voters, and thereby LOSE. And when they make mistakes - when they get some real conservatives on their side, like McCain did with Palin, and all of a sudden his numbers started shooting up through the roof and it looked like he might actually win - well, HE QUIT. Anyone remember that? And why? Because he’s a RINO, and a RINO’s job is to LOSE.

So there NEVER would have been a Romney presidency, because Romney ran to lose. And as McCain showed, RINOs will do anything it takes, even just plain quitting the race, to make sure the Rats win.

That’s because RINOs ARE RATS.

So there is no “middle ground.” The Tea Party generally, and Cruz specifically, IS the opposition to the RINORATS. There isn’t anyone else. And if we “all get along,” then RINOs will continue to lose to Rats in big elections, and refuse to fight Rats in Congress and elsewhere. That’s how it’s done - that’s their job. That’s “what they do.”

So be clear. Dump the confusion. There’s no threat of “losing” by going with Cruz or genuine conservatives or Tea Party candidates - because there is NO possibility of winning if we stick with RINOs, because the RINO’s job is to LOSE to Rats.

And they do that very, very well.

In fact, they are experts at it.

[txhurl]

I hope Sowell ends up being the most distressing knife in Cruz’ back. But on the other hand, Stern denounced democeats as commies today, for some good news.

[CatherineofAragon]

It’s gotten to the point that certain friends of mine do not want to hear me say any more negative things about RINOS.

They are of the mind that an R after the name automatically means the person is one of the good guys. And they believe we have to keep on voting for RINO candidates because they are “our only choice”.

[CatherineofAragon]

"However, it is also true that more and more of the U. S. population are on the government dole and see Cruz as their enemy. Our numbers are shrinking. "

So what's the solution? Become Democrat-lite panderers? Dump social issues? Be polite, careful with words, and avoid offending, like Romney?

I'm not signing on for any of that.

[SoConPubbie]

So what's the solution? Become Democrat-lite panderers? Dump social issues? Be polite, careful with words, and avoid offending, like Romney?

I'm not signing on for any of that.

Ditto!

Same-o, Same-o failed GOP-E logic we have been spoon-fed by Karl Rove types for several election cycles now.

When the Tea-Party is energized, however, like it is now, then we get a much better type of winning GOP Congressperson and Governors. Politicians with actual principles.