Posted on 09/27/2013 8:11:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Critics think the Tea Party senator is being self-defeating, but his antics make sense if he's actually trying to remake the Republican Party in his image.
What's Ted Cruz up to? Is he a political idiot or a political savant?
Many people have argued that his antics, however well designed to appeal to the Tea Party and the Republican-primary voting base, also seem equally well designed to anger his Republican colleagues in Congress, "establishment" Republicans, and organs of opinion like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and, perhaps more important, big business and big-money donors whose support Cruz will need if he runs for president in 2016. And what he is doing won't stop Obamacare. So it seems like his strategy of alienating his colleagues in the Senate is doomed to failure and he is just being intransigent for the hell of it.
But let's suppose Cruz sees something (or is betting on something) that his opponents in the Republican Party don't see. Then his actions make a lot more sense. He is not a terrorist or a bomb thrower. He is a Leninist. He wants to sow discord among his erstwhile allies so that he can seize control.
Suppose you thought that the Republican coalition is fracturing, that traditional Republican leadership can no longer hold the party together, and that the leadership is too willing to capitulate to its political opponents on the left.
Suppose you are also convinced that Obamacare will be a total disaster. Once in place, constituencies will form that will make difficult to repeal, yet it will make most ordinary Americans deeply unhappy. Obamacare will be the big-government equivalent of crystal-meth: an addictive substance that destroys your health. When the public finally realizes, it will abandon the Democrats in droves and look for an alternative...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
True, but....
"Obamacare will be the big-government equivalent of crystal-meth: an addictive substance that destroys your health. "
Support my contention that the left knows the truth and occasionally, if not couched in sarcasm, lets it slip out from time to time. The leftist media is evil, not stupid, the latter honor belongs to its consumer base.
Oh, no! Talking points mixup! Atlanta JC said he was the McCarthy! Can’t be both !
Yeah, so's John McCain. What's your point.
I could not have said it better myself.
That you need to focus on your enemies, and not become part of the “circular firing squad” that Cruz, himself has complained about.
Two years ago I may have agree, but it’s time for the GOP to clean house, and since they won’t do it, it’s up to us.
I thought that the Lenin *sisters* were now ensconced on the Supreme Court. Oh well. Bob
Cruz and Palin are PATRIOTS.
WHAT IS A PATRIOT?
PATRIOTS are not “Revolutionaries” trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
PATRIOTS are “Counter-Revolutionaries” trying to prevent the government of the United States,
from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author
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