Re: Now the Guns are Getting too Big to Primary
Bush may be the past, but if Cruz is the future of the Republican Party, the future is bleak.
RINO??? What gives anyone the right to determine who can and cannot be a Republican or define what a TRUE Republican is?
I agree with the basic premise of the original Tea Party movement, of getting our spending and debt under control.
I do not agree with, or support, the scorched earth tactics that SOME Tea Partiers are using... Like Cruz.
What Jeb Bush said, was dead on. The hyperbolic rhetoric and "my way or the highway" tactics are the exact same tactics that the President and the Democrats in the Congress are using. A person looses all credibility in my eyes when they do exactly what they complain about others doing.
We can agree on the goal, but we need to coordinate a strategy, instead of having the Tea Party extreme taking their own path which is leading to self destruction of the Republican Party.
What they will end up with, if they keep this up, is a core group of people in this country that will NEVER be able to win a nationwide election (President), or enough state wide elections to control the Senate, and there are not enough House districts that have enough like minded people to control the House of Representatives.
So what they are doing, is hastening their own irrelevance in US politics.
YOU HAVE TO BE IN POWER (win elections) TO WIELD POWER (rule and control the government) AND EFFECT A CHANGE (realize and implement your agenda and policies). Currently, that doesn't seem to be the goal of Ted Cruz, not by any realistic evaluation of the facts.
First of all, everybody in the United States has the right to determine what he/she thinks is a Republican or not. People who are wishy-washy at this late stage of this game need to make their own choice...but that will not stop me from deciding if they are in the right camp or not.
Secondly, We the people out here have seen what those of you who call for this big tent strategy have gotten us... a long time under Democrat and Democrat
-light Federal governments which do nothing to cut departments, which do nothing to cut spending except some minimal increases in the growth of spending, have barely slowed down government encroachment into every aspect of our lives...who have not stopped the massive hemorrhage of bleeding the true blood of our culture in the culture wars... we watch as the RINO strategists keep telling us, play for that big win, that big win that never truly comes... or if we do win, what we get is just a little better than what the other side would have given us.
I naively signed onto that strategy myself in the hopes it would be for the better, the lesser of two evils...but getting a lesser evil followed by a larger evil has pointed out to me the error of my mistaken thought processes.
Third, piggybacking on the former point... you don't ask the devil to help out, to work on your side...
AND, and sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire. Have we fallen for the liberals 60s mantra, make love not war? Sometimes you have to do the war thing, sometimes, as proven by Sherman's March, maybe even the scorched earth thing giving a badly needed victory to US, like it did old Abe. I agree with this GW point,
you are either with us or you are against us.
McCain is not sufficiently with us, he has killed conservatism with a 1000 paper cuts that just eat like termites away at my inner core beliefs. I don't wanna die on the battle field like that... would rather stand up and aim cannons straight at the enemy, shoot deserters and hang the ones we find find working with the enemy [ metaphorically obviously ].
The Tea Parties are the only truly honest parties in the country...they represent what is needed to get us back on course fiscally, politically and, to a much lesser extent, socially. We need that direction for all three. If we keep on going like the Republican Party has, it is already a dead party. I sure don't want any part of just being the Fabian Wing of the Democrat Party.
While winning may be necessary to get anything done, if you get nothing done when you do win except to just go on a slower pace towards decline than the other party... hey, might as well get there faster so we can break it down and start over...
I am unwilling to be a slave... that is ultimately where this is headed if not headed off at the pass.