1 week before the GOP convention.
“This is how we bring down Trump and help the UN and the EU.”
Posted on 07/22/2016 6:12:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
The self-righteousness and smugness of Ted Cruz in refusing to endorse Donald Trump, then walking off stage in Cleveland, smirking amidst the boos, takes the mind back in time.
At the Cow Palace in San Francisco in July of 1964, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, having been defeated by Barry Goldwater, took the podium to introduce a platform plank denouncing "extremism."
Implication: Goldwater's campaign is saturated with extremists.
Purpose: Advertise Rocky's superior morality.
Smug and self-righteous, Rocky brayed at the curses and insults, "It's a free country, ladies and gentlemen."
Rocky was finished. He would never win the nomination.
Richard Nixon took another road, endorsed Goldwater, spoke for him in San Francisco, campaigned for him across America. And in 1968, with Goldwater's backing, Nixon would rout Govs. George Romney and Rockefeller, and win the presidency, twice.
Sometimes, loyalty pays off.
About Cruz, a prediction: He will not be the nominee in 2020. He will never be the nominee. If Trump wins, Cruz is cooked. If Trump loses, his people will not forget the Brutus who stuck the knife in his back.
To any who read Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" or saw the movie, Ted Cruz is the Senator Fred Van Ackerman of his generation.
Yet, beyond the denunciations of Trump and disavowals of his candidacy, something larger is going on here.
The Goldwaterites were not only dethroning the East Coast liberal establishment of Rockefeller, but saying goodbye to the Republicanism of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon.
Something new was being born, and births are not a pretty sight.
What was being born was a new Republican Party. It would be dominated, after Nixon, by conservatives, who would seek to dump the Accidental President, Gerald R. Ford, in 1976. They would recapture the party in 1980, and help elect and re-elect Ronald Reagan.
Vice President George H. W. Bush won in 1988 through the exploitation of cultural and social issues. His Democratic rival, Gov. Michael Dukakis, opposed the death penalty, opposed public school kids taking the Pledge of Allegiance, and had a progressive program to give weekend passes to convicted killers and rapists like Willie Horton.
Once this became known, thanks to Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater, the Little Duke was done. The Dukakis tank ride in that helmet, to show his aptitude to be commander-in-chief, probably did not help.
The crisis of today's Republican Party stems from a failure to recognize, after Reagan went home, and during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, that America now faced a new set of challenges.
By 1991, America's border was bleeding. Thousands were walking in from Mexico every weekend. The hundreds of thousands arriving legally, the vast majority of them Third World poor, began putting downward pressure on working-class wages. Soon, these immigrants would begin voting for the welfare state on which their families depended, and support the Party of Government.
By 1991, free trade had begun to send our factories and jobs overseas and de-industrialize America.
By 1991, an epoch in world history had ended. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Cold War was suddenly over. America had prevailed.
"As our case is new," said Lincoln, "so we must think anew and act anew." Bush Republicans did not think anew or act anew.
They were like football coaches who still swore by the single-wing offense, after George Halas' Chicago Bears, the "Monsters of the Midway," used the T-formation to score 11 touchdowns and beat the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL championship game, 73-0.
What paralyzed the Republicans of a generation ago? What blinded them from seeing and blocked them from acting on the new realities?
Ideology, political correctness, a reflexive recoil against new thinking, and an innate inability to adapt.
The ideology was a belief in free trade that borders on the cultic, though free trade had been rejected by America's greatest leaders: Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
The political correctness stemmed from a fear of being called racist and xenophobic so paralyzing, so overpowering, that some Republicans would ship the entire Third World over here, rather than have it thought they would ever consider the race, ethnicity or religion of those repopulating America.
The inability to adapt was seen when our Cold War adversary extended a hand in friendship, and the War Party slapped it away. Rather than shed Cold War alliances and rebuild our country, we looked around for new commitments, new allies, new wars to fight to "end tyranny in our world."
These wars had less to do with threats to vital interests, than with providing now-obsolete Cold Warriors with arguments to maintain their claims on national resources and attention, not to mention their lifestyles and jobs.
With Trump's triumph, the day of reckoning has arrived.
The new GOP is not going to be party of open borders, free trade globalism or reflexive interventionism.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth are justified.
For these self-righteous folks are all getting eviction notices. They are being dispossessed of their home.
“The only one who worries me is Barry”
If you mean Barron, I noticed that too; seemed a bit aloof.
Cruz is now tied to Goldman Sacs, cheating
and threatening the prostitutes,
ObamaTRADE, LYING about his pledge,
LYING about his dirty tricks,
stealing votes, and a father who helped
murder JFK.
Cruz is DOA.
Go Pat GO!
Also, Ted was LYING to the TV audience when he pretended that the uproar was just from the NY delegation. The whole audience was in an uproar against Cruz not making the endorsement, chanting, but Cruz tried to attribute it all to the “enthusiasm of the NY delegation.”
Oooh, sweet reference - scrolled up, and of course it's Pat B.
Was he at the Convention? Did not see him....
I don’t believe there has ever been a denial that the NE pic (with Lee Oswald) was Raphael.
Cruz and all the corrupt “System” people just get outraged. It’s not politically correct.
There is a certain synchronicity to the whole thing, since Trump brought up the LBJ law silencing churches.
LBJ . . . another major player in the conspiracy that killed JFK and covered it up.
“Ted is dead.”
That’s what I said...
(hat tip to Curtis Mayfield).
“This is how we bring down Trump and help the UN and the EU.”
Huppty Teddy and the 8 X Mistresses
Humpty Teddy Sat on a wall
Humpty Teddy took a great fall
All the Kings horses
And all the Kings men
Couldn’t put Teddy together again.
Excellent analysis and observations. As a fellow Texan, this part really spoke to my thoughts on Ted:
“During his time in the Senate, we viewed Cruz’ contrariness and obstructionism as swimming against the RINO tide. I now see it all as simple self-aggrandizement.”
A perfect summation of my own observation and conclusions.
But I thought Glenn Beck had already sworn him in. One of the things I love most about Trump is that he never forgets and appears to pretty much never let something go. The payback against the never-trump brigade is going to be epic. What spectacular theater this will be!!
Melania Trump chose to reveal *herself* by posing for GQ. What Cruz’s PAC revealed was her decision to do so. They were in essence accusing her of bad character and also Donald by extension.
Trump responded by accusing Heidi Cruz of being ugly.
The thing is, you can control the decisions you make — like whether to pose for GQ or whether to marry a woman who poses for GQ — but you can’t control what your body looks like.
So to me Trump’s action in the battle over the wives was mean and unfair, whereas Cruz (or his super PAC, which is essentially the same since Cruz never disavowed what they did) was playing very hard hardball but was basically fair.
But even so, it’s politics, and Cruz needed to suck it up and endorse Trump.
The earthquake faultlines between doctrinaire (C) like Rush/Levin/Cruz versus the rest of us who are America and Constitution *first* and foremost, well, these rifts cannot be bridged by talk. Hence, Trump's successful hostile takeover.
It wasn't just Rockefeller versus Goldwater. We also had his royal highness William F. Buckley, the patron Saint of the purist perfectionists. His tract in 1964 and earlier leads directly to Rush and the Conservatism as a noun, and as a religion, and to all the baby RushTards who would rather die with Cruz than elect Trump.
NB: I said a year ago that if Trump pulls this off, he will not kill their almighty Conservatism, he will friggin *save* it. For they will all live to fight another day, which is far better than dying under Hillary. But I digress.
Buckley was vocally in Goldwater's camp, yes, but that isn't saying much when the alternative was Rocky and a half dozen other elitist snobs. Furthermore, almost everyone alive at the time knew that JFK was really on the ballot, and no-one was going to defeat that now martyred name. This begs the question of whether supporting Barry G was for show ( just like the advanced whipped votes on a bill allows vulnerable House or Senate members to fake vote for illusion ).
Buckley with his aloof Connecticut accent and erudite Yale snobbery was perfectly aligned with Rocky on one thing - that politically correct denunciation of "extremism" that Pat mentioned. He mercilessly savaged his competition, most famously Ayn Rand and of course, the Birchers. On some things they deserved it, however it resulted in the absolute destruction of Constitutionalism from its natural and only remaining home, quite possibly forever. Original Intent? Amendments? Convention? Income Tax repeal? This is the point where their spirit died and priorities changed.
So our friendly neighborhood (R)epublicrat party never really had a chance to adopt original principles post-Eisenhower. The sniping of the patriotic elements saw to that. This is when the modern uniparty was conceived. Common ground you know? Free Trade. Immigration. Open Borders. In fact 1965 would launch our downfall with simultaneous Welfare State expansion and reignited Immigration. 18 years later due to the 26th Amendment the first trickle of the leading edge of the demographic tsunami arrived at the ballot box. By 1988 and 1992 it was obvious.
Reagan versus Ford was a mere 12 years past the 1964 rubicon and the uniparty put up quite a battle that season especially given only a decade had elapsed. Fast forward another 40 years ( wow! ) until today and it is quite an amazing feat that Trump has pulled off, crushing the uniparty in their tracks despite their 52 year entrenchment.
The only question I have left is what is missing from Rush and Levin's brain. How is it possible to worship Free Trade and Open Borders and Offshoring Jobs and selling out America? When you make derogatory terms of nationalism or populism as Levin does, well, you need to get your head examined.
“The only question I have left is what is missing from Rush and Levin’s brain. How is it possible to worship Free Trade and Open Borders and Offshoring Jobs and selling out America? When you make derogatory terms of nationalism or populism as Levin does, well, you need to get your head examined. “
Follow the $$$$......yes, their reason is that simple.
we won this with record turnout.not that this will matter to you cruzer's but it does explain things but i warn you it's an inconvenient truth.
ted cruz was a regional candidate and that's not meant as an insult but a simple fact. bill clinton was a regional candidate, so that in and of it's self isn't a disqualification. in order to win a regional candidate has to dominate his region, so that as he moves into less friendly territory his victory seems inevitable. clinton sowed up the 92 primaries by march. ted cruz didn't do that, he under performed his region, why? trumps insults? nope in the run up to the SEC primaries cruz and trump were pretty friendly towards one another. it was only after the sec primaries did cruz attack trump and predictably trump fought back. after the sec primaries there was no path to 1237 for cruz and they knew that so they went to the only tactic left, try to push it to a contested convention.......steal the election fair and square! not that that wasn't legal but it did two things, number one it made cruz appear dishonest and more importantly and this was a killer...it aligned him with the establishment.
the protest monday was primarily over adding closed primaries in 2020, the problem with that is trump won 19 of 28 closed primaries cruz won 8 and it's just reinforcing this false narrative that cruz supporters cling too and that's that somehow there was a path, some procedural change that could have been made that would have elected cruz.that's just not true. cruz under performed the primary states he should have dominated. why? because he's a poor candidate that failed to connect to voters, that he's gone about as far as his political skills will take him and that's the senate
I've been following that comment thread. The guy is good. Facts and details. Naturally it is all for naught. These children that he is trying to educate are millennials, probably Rush-babies. They learned some of the key topics of "conservatism" from him, but were spared from the most important component of all - common sense.
They have no situational awareness. Conservatism is their mighty and hammer, and everything, I mean EVERYTHING they come across, is a nail.
For some of them this campaign season that hammer has smashed their own thumb and it is swelling badly. The smart ones will learn something from that experience. The rest, well, they are facing a lifetime of smashed fingers.
What will our FR Cruzbots do NOW?>>>>>>>>>>
They will do Alice in Wonderland.
Non of them can get real women.(Its all fantasy to them.)
I’m old enough that I remember Mayfield, and that song!
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