The Cruzifiction of Ted
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I don't know Senator Ted Cruz. Never met the
man. But I have friends and family in
the great state of Texas and
THEY are thrilled with Cruz's, shall we say ... "zeal."
Last weekend Senator Cruz was met with an eight
minute standing ovation at a gathering in Texas. Eight minutes! That's a lot of applauding! A lot, indeed!
Here in the South, we STILL cherish our "firebrand"
politicians. We love it when they take
the fight to the opposition. We also
love it when they take a position right up front and plant their flag and
declare their immovability.
In the few months Cruz has been in Washington he has
become a "thorn in the flesh" to moderates and liberals and
socialists and Marxists, and progressives, well, everyone --with the
exception of conservatives.
Shortly after Cruz was elected, I asked friends
in Texas if
Cruz was for real. It was still early
days and they would commit only to say he APPEARED to be the real thing. I then opined that if he was, indeed the
"Real Thing" he would be crucified by the left and the
Mainstream Media, which is, of course, one and the same.
It didn't take long.
Boat rockers are not welcome, it seems, in
Congress -- by either side. Cruz has
managed to keep the boat rocking since he had the temerity to stride away from
the back benches and insist that Congress and the President follow the dictates
of the Constitution. THAT was unheard of
behavior, especially from some pipsqueak southerner with a decided Texas
accent. How dare he insist the
Constitution be followed!
And that was from his own political party!
Oh, he was also assigned a new nickname courtesy
of that old reliable RINO from Arizona, John
McCain -- "Wacko Bird."
Cruz instantly became the face of the Tea Party
in Washington. Both democrats and Republicans HATE the Tea
Party. Even though the Tea Party is
largely responsible for the GOP gaining control of the House of
Representatives, The republicans, that is to say, the "establishment
republicans" (The blue bloods and the country club set, the moderates,
liberals, and progressives within the GOP) took umbrage at the gall of the
"Kmart republicans" when they refused to "go along to get along."
Look. The
GOP had better get used to the fact that the party's base loves Ted Cruz. Every time some pompous stuffed shirt repub
takes another cheap shot at Cruz, the base takes it personally.
The conservatives in the GOP, that is to say --
the base of the party, is on the verge of a mass migration AWAY from the
Republican Party to become either Independent voters, or, to form another
political party, a conservative political party. In either event, the GOP will be relegated to
minority status as far into the future as the eye can see -- if it survives
at all.
Is Cruz positioning himself to run for President
in 2016? Possibly. He’s doing and saying all the things
pre-candidates do and say. He’s visiting
the early primary and caucus states and such.
But frankly, I’ll be surprised to see him actually make a try for it
simply because I do not think Senator Cruz is eligible to be a candidate for President
of the US. He is NOT a natural born citizen of the United
States. Do not delude yourself into thinking the
democrats and/or the Mainstream Media will let that pass. They will crucify Senator Cruz around the
clock. See, there IS a double standard
in national politics – one for the democrats and an entirely different standard
for republicans.
Senator Cruz, notwithstanding, the Republican
party is leaderless and will remain so as long as the party is split and at war
with itself.
I have never believed the Republican Party
needed a “Big Tent.” The GOP is not the
Democrat Party; at least it WASN’T until recently, when , for whatever reason, it decided to become democrat-lite.
The Democrat Party is not really a party -- per
se. (with respect to its inherent nature) It is more a conglomeration of
special interest groups than it is a political party. That
does not work for the GOP’s conservative base.
Conservatives are seeking a national leader, a
champion, if you will. At the moment,
more and more conservatives are turning to Senator Cruz. Anything that plays havoc with Obama’s plan to
destroy the Republican Party -- and crush conservatives -- is just fine with me.
© J. D. Longstreet
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