You posted an interesting item yesterday where the author pointed out how many more self-declared Independents there are now than ever before, polled at 42 percent! The writer wrongly assumed that those Independents were the same as "middle of the road" voters, and so the Republican party had to take that tack to catch them. I think it's the same here -- the writer assumes that anyone NOT self-identifying as a Christian conservative is either moderate or to the left, and that's the tack to get them.
The reality is that a very large number of Americans are on the opposite side of the road as Democrat/Republican strategies. A very large number of Americans only want one thing: LESS government, LESS nanny state, LESS tyranny, MORE freedom, MORE independence, MORE autonomy from government. A large number of Americans resent the overburden of government Democrats and Republicans are building constantly, and they want to vote for the party, the candidate, the concept, that says, "SMALLER, less government!"
That the guy who is calling for it, Cruz (I hope and trust, anyway), happens to also be an avowed Christian, is so much the better. His being a Republican is as much a liability as it is a benefit.
That there is even this divide IN the Republican party to such a degree, shows that it is defunct.
Ping to my post 16. Yep.
“as if Americans who want less government but who don’t identify as “Christian conservative,” don’t exist.”
All 13 of them.
I just listened again carefully to the announcement Cruz made at Liberty University. He mentioned raising a “grass-roots army” and said that he was running for “President of the United States”.
Cruz DID NOT say “the Republican nomination for President”.
Seems somehow important to me that he did not plug for support from the Republican Party, which of course, he will not be receiving.