“But although his goals are admirable and shared by conservatives across the country, he has no idea how to achieve them.”
Oh, yes, he does. A plan to be elected President in 2016. Everything the man does is focused on positioning himself to seize the republican nomination in 2016. Cruz knows he hasn’t a snow ball’s chance to enact any of his policies unless he becomes president.
Cruz is too smart to actually stop the raising of the debt ceiling. The consequences would have been too catastrophic and he would have been the one to take all the blame destroying his political career. This was a clever opportunity to show how conservative he was knowing the rest of the caucus would keep him from doing something really stupid.
What people keep forgetting is the way our Constitution was constructed. It is designed to make preventing action much easier than implementing it.
To reverse the present highly negative trends in American society and politics, it is therefore necessary to control a a majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the presidency. By which I mean majorities that are not just Republican, but are actually conservative.
To accomplish this requires a sea-change in the hearts and minds of Americans. Focusing on an election or even a series of elections puts the cart before the horse.
The cart is the election, the horse is the ongoing deterioration of American society and culture.