Ted Cruz is on the verge of making it clear that Republicans must step on one side of a demarcation or the other. Either they are in the establishment Camp or they are in a conservative revolt against the establishment. With these kinds of public statements, Ted Cruz is laying down a marker to the rest of the Senate: they will no longer be able to fudge these issues. We now see just how treacherous Orin Hatch is, how deceitful his protestations of conservatism were in his last election campaign and we will see whether other supposedly conservative senators like Mike Espe of Wyoming choose Rino-ism or conservatism.
Ted Cruz deserves our deepest respect for exposing himself to ostracism in the Senate and ridicule in the media. He is a Goldwater in the finest sense. Few indeed are men of principle who will stand before the nation and tell the truth at the cost of their own image. The world's greatest deliberative body for the most part is populated on the Republican side with cowards. But the blame is not theirs alone; it is to be shared by by the American electorate which through ignorance, indifference, self-seeking, and sheer gullibility have put these week people in charge of their children's destiny.
Ted Cruz has elevated these questions to the level of patriotism. These issues are not matters of politics anymore but of national survival.
Patriotic conservatives who understand that these issues are existential are watching the politics play out in the Senate. Many of us hold realistic anxiety that politics will prevail over patriotism in the Senate and in the House.
When it does, we will renew our please on this forum and elsewhere for Article V.
