From the article:
The way you bring real change to Washington is to change the views of the country. Simply winning an election and then setting about “consensus-building” is exactly what has gotten the Republican Party into so much electoral trouble. Not to mention gotten the country in so much financial trouble.
This is the whole problem with the GOP! winning the election, and then maintaining the status quo (no matter how leftward the rats have pushed it), is exactly the governing policy of the party. That has to stop!!! And the only man who I think has a chance of doing so is the Honorable Senator from Texas.
Cruz has got me excited about politics again because he has injected me with a small dose of optimism about what may still be possible in the country. God bless Ted Cruz!
“Cruz has got me excited about politics again because he has injected me with a small dose of optimism about what may still be possible in the country.”
And that fervor you feel inside is exactly what both the republicans and the democrats have been working to tamp down on the republican side (though they love it on the democrat side, see 2008).
Did Bob Dole inspire you to march to the polls, torch and pitchfork in hand?? Did either George Bush? Did John McCain? Did Mitt Romney? Did Gerald Ford? Do you get energized after a Mitch McConnell or John Boehner speech??
On the other hand, the people marched to vote for Reagan in droves, the same with Nixon (though a moderate by today’s standards, he knew how to get the people going), and Gingrich, in both the 90’s and last year when he, by his words and mind alone, caused people to rally to him. And Sarah Palin. And now Ted Cruz.
Uninspiring, milquetoast moderates do not inspire, plain-speaking conservatives do. And both parties fear plain-speaking conservatives because they move mountains and don’t bother listening to those who say “it can’t be done.”
From Reagan’s A Time For Choosing Speech:
“Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face—that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand—the ultimatum. And what then—when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he’s heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he’d rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin—just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ‘round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.”