Here's my point: NO ONE ELSE IS FIGHTING! Tactics and strategy take a team .... and the entrenched GOP doesn't want to play the game. They're afraid and clinging to their self-made status quo. The nation be damned.
Cruz is almost alone. And yet he soldiers on. I am one citizen thankful for his "ilk"....and pray they continue the fight. Cruz is one of the lights still shining in this dreadful darkness. God bless him.
Martyrdom doesn't solve much of anything, and if Cruz is ignoring those opportunities offered to him and is spurning potential allies because they aren't quite as "pure" as he'd like them to be, then he's not fighting the good fight, he's aggrandizing himself as a martyr.
And as I recall - it was posted elsewhere just recently - McConnell did manage to keep the republicans in the House sufficiently in line that not a one voted for Obamacare; for the more liberal republicans it must have been a real temptation to join in that vote to look like one of the "people who care."
I'm not saying that McConnell is a great fighter, all I'm saying is that he hasn't been completely passive and that to the extent he does fight, he uses a different style of fighting. My concerns with McConnell are that he doesn't seem to have a sufficiently strong purpose or set of principles driving, and informing, his actions, amongst others. Cruz could certainly bring the fire of conviction to the team, and that is why I think a smart, strategic alliance between McConnell on the one hand and Cruz on the other could be fruitful, but that will not, and cannot, happen while Cruz grandstands and refuses to take up the opportunities that were offered to him when he was first elected.
The McConnell-ites and the Cruz-ites could make an unstoppable team - the ne plus ultra of good cop/bad cop - if only they could both realize that the real enemies don't have an 'R' after their names.