This is a great opinion piece! I believe that the Republican party died the night that Trump was nominated as the presidential candidate. IMHO Trump's purpose in running for president was twofold; deny a Constitutional conservative the nomination and further splinter the Republican party. He has accomplished that objective. We came very close to getting our country back under Cruz and I think that is what we all need to remember and hold on to; even if you were a Rubio, Walker, Kasich, or other supporter. We came close. Whether you agree with Cruz or not, or whether you think he is too conservative or too religious (yes, some do), the fact of the matter remains he's the glue that's keeping any hope of taking our country back alive. He is the only hope for our democracy within a Republic. He has been the voice of the people and has stood up to the Washington cartel. The Kingmakers would rather have Hillary or Trump seated as it ensures their corruption can continue; further lining their pockets and maintaining their political seats.
Does the Republican Party have a future without Ted Cruz? 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.
As this nation moves forward, there’s going to be serious talk by serious people about how to restore America, and it’s going to come from the Reagan and Lincoln wing. We are going to be a burr under the saddle constantly agitating and irritating those who refuse to stand for the principles of America and we will get stronger and stronger.
Politicians will become more and more frustrated by always being compared to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and the people will see who’s right and who’s wrong.But more importantly, Americans must realize that the only way to save America is by saving it themselves, understanding that freedom and liberty does not come from government, but from the rights bestowed on us by God.
When the desire for freedom and liberty outweighs the false sense of hope some politician will fix things for you, then and only then can we restore America.
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