Does the Republican Party have a future without Ted Cruz?
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/07/does-the-republican-party-have-a-future-without-ted-cruz#sthash.3AkDtrSp.dpufBy: Jen Kuznicki | July 23, 2016
I left the Republican Party two years ago because I thought it too difficult to support Republicans in general after watching former House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (F, 42%) sell out the country repeatedly; and because I saw an organized effort to thwart conservative Christians from election.
Republican Country Club types populated the party’s ranks and liked the energy and enthusiasm people like me brought to the party in 2008 and 2009, but they didn’t want to talk about limited government, or pro-life issues. Many were baffled that so many people would be upset about Obamacare, as many of them lamented that they wished the Republicans had accomplished something like it; they were genuinely upset the Democrats beat them to it.
Campaign for Liberty types came into the party a short while after me, and they too didn’t want to talk about being pro-life, but their influence promoted Ron Paul, who was also very much against what I considered to be my wing of the party — the Reagan and Lincoln wing. Mentioning either great Republican president in their company made them very, very upset, indeed.
So I thought of the party as primarily made up of these three factions — well, four, if you count the party apparatchiks. They are the ones responsible for arguing in any manner necessary in order to keep the factions together while simultaneously undermining each of them to produce certain outcomes.
Ain’t politics grand?
With the close of the Republican convention where they picked a nominee that holds few conservative values, it is the Reagan and Lincoln wing of the party that is being snubbed through an unholy alliance between the country clubbers and the C4L types. Yes, while country clubbers proudly stood for Gerald Ford and Ron Paul trashed Ronald Reagan, it’s certainly not Trump that has been put in the position that Reagan had been; it’s Cruz, from my wing.
So let’s get this straight. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) is either the future of the Republican Party, or there is no Republican Party in the future.
No, it’s not just one man. Cruz isn’t the only one from my wing, but he represents, almost perfectly, the values and policies that formed the party to begin with and the founder’s vision of America. Those who attack Cruz attack the founding of the nation and the ideals that make America special, and in doing so, move us toward a repeat of the centuries-old curse of government as our master, instead of the people being the master of our government. The voice of history must be heard.
Right now, our nation is divided because the election of Barack Obama was a turning point in our history. When no media sources vetted then-Senator Obama, conservatives certainly did, and alarmed the countryside. His presidency would mean change in a radical way. And radical it has been. The Alinskyites, Obama and Hillary Clinton would sow division and class warfare, tighten the clamp on our industries and spend enormous amounts of our tax dollars on welfare and entitlements, transforming our nation from one of hope and capitalism into one of hatred and violence and hopelessness. These Marxist ideologues have degenerated the population extremely quickly. It is clear that there aren’t enough people who recognize how very terrible things have gotten, and how this radical agenda has redefined America.
But the beacon of light comes with knowing history, and championing true American values broadly defined as conservatism. This election year didn’t get a lot of that type of talk; it instead talked about the size of someone’s hands or cheap shots and silliness.
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