The Palinization of Ted Cruz continues apace
It was inevitable that there would be a serious and concentrated attempt to Palinize Cruz no matter what he did. But Cruz’s current stance on Obamacare, which is exposing the deep rifts within the Republican Party, makes the Palinization process easier because many Republicans are participating in that process of destruction—as they also did with Palin.
Cruz is a very intelligent and well-educated man with impeccable credentials and prize-winning debating skills. Therefore the approach can’t be “he’s a stupidhead,” as it was with Palin. It’s “he’s crazy, extreme, and dangerous”—as it also was with Palin.
Why can’t people just disagree? That’s a rhetorical question.
I don’t care about a person’s politics, religious beliefs, or judgment.
So long as the Left considers that person their enemy, I will at grudgingly accept that they might be a useful tool in the war against the Left.
The Left is amazingly accurate in their claims about their enemies, that are only ever true of the Left themselves. While this isn’t something to be relied on 100%, it is much more accurate than the internet and the MSm combined for data mining.
Biden’s “shoot that shotgun in the air 2 times as a warning” or the Left’s “women have to puke over themselves and piss themselves if they want to defend against rapists, guns won’t work” is sane, but this other stuff is wacko and crazy, eh?
I think we all know what that means.
Since progressives do not have “faith” that is a tradition of thousands of years of experience, they have only one claim to rule: we’re smarter.
Palin was easy for progressives to scoff at. But Cruz? Not so much.
But Cruz rides on Palin’s shoulders. Remember if it wasn’t for Palin, Cruz wouldn’t be. Palin had all that quirkiness, which I loved and still love. I love how it infuriates the Elites. Cruz isn’t “burdened” with that.
The defining momemt, for me, was Sunday when Chris Wallace asks TC about all the Republican vitriol and he doesn’t reply prompting Wallace to ask “Senator?” And Cruz (I paraprhrize) says he doesn’t want to respond to personal attacks.
It was a small thing but a thing that demonstrates command, a command which the great SP didn’t have. So, SP has revenge, after all and we watch as TC unites the Republican Party to the screams and outrages of our treasoness Elites.
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2013/09/23/could-the-gop-actually-be-about-to-beat-obama-n1706731
Somewhat related . . . the Republican establishment is actively undermining Cruz and anyone who is serious about not funding the impending train wreck:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359201/senate-gop-con-job-opposition-obamacare-andrew-c-mccarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
Senate GOP Con Job: Opposition to Obamacare
By Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review
September 22, 2013 7:19 PM
This defund Obamacare vote is brilliant and efficient. Not only will Reid expose his caucus to danger by voting to fund the very unpopular bill, but it’s showing us the depths of the RINO problem at the same time.
Now, Chris Wallace just needs to name some names.
A high caliber silver bullet to the collective brain; a stake through the corporate heart; burial in a garlic field.
GOP
Ut requiescat in pace.
Pax nostra
The GOP establishment just does not want to accept that their time is up. There has been a paradigm shift but the old guard won’t acknowledge it. Palin and Cruz are the new leaders. They just have to be persistent. Eventually they will succeed.
The question is will there be an America left to be led or will, after all things come to pass, Americans even deserve righteous leadership.
Good article M J R.
Pull a pig’s tail and listen to him squeal.
GOP Establishment =Modern day Whigs
If you have to purge the GOP to defeat Democrats, and you have to purge Democrats to defeat Islamic Jihad… which came firs,t the chicken or the egg?
I heard part of H. Reid’s scurrilous attack on the anti-Obamacare House and Senate members, calling them “Tea Partiers” and “anarchists” (and other gutter slurs) on C-Span today.
If the GOP leadership screws this up through their cowardice, it will be the death knell for the GOP, and it will destroy the USA in the process, by splintering the oppo to the manifestly evil Dems.
Divide and conquer. The basic strategy hasn’t changed. Cruz is forcing this issue while there is still some strength left. Load your weapons, everybody. (That’s a metaphor. Well, maybe it aint if you live in Chicago! or Kenya! Sup’ Obama!)
sharpie, 4:34 pm — “Load your weapons, everybody.”
Seen today in TheHill.com: “The Democratic leader [Pelosi] asked that lawmakers keep ‘their powder dry’ as they wait for the Senate spending bill.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323809-pelosi-to-dems-keep-powder-dry-for-senate-spending-bill
Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) points out:
“IF THERE’S ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING, WE SHOULD BLAME NANCY PELOSI THE WAY THE LEFT BLAMED SARAH PALIN”
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/176365/
[ teee heee — M J R ]
Cruz has already won because the purpose was never to get the bill passed (which couldn’t have happened), the purpose was to expose the statists and show the people that there are some politicians that want to kill Obamacare.
In 2014, voters will vote appropriately.
Meanwhile, the statists and defeat caucus keep crowing about how Cruz’ effort is doomed to failure.
These people are playing checkers while Cruz is playing chess.
Matt_SE,
Where’s the active (activist) popular movement with Cruz?
@Eric
I don’t understand your question. Could you elaborate?
Well ok… but to some extent people like Palin and Cruz do it to themselves. They set themselves up.
And frankly, neo, I’m somewhat disappointed in you here for just repeating Tea Party-type talking points. This is the sort of stuff I expect from Sean Hannity, but not here.
I was enthralled with Palin when she first came on the stage, but much less so now. The reality show was the final straw for me.
As for Cruz, he may be smart in a bookish way, but anyone who thinks that Obama is going to agree to defund his signature program isn’t thinking clearly, to say the least. IMHO this entire defund crusade is about as stupid and counterproductive a plan that I’ve seen in awhile.
Not that I expect any sympathy for these thoughts here, but there they are anyway.
Tom the Redhunter, 8:59 pm — “anyone who thinks that Obama is going to agree to defund his signature program isn’t thinking clearly.”
No one here, including you, me, and our hostess, fancies that the anointed-one-in-chief will agree to defund his signature program. *No* *one*.
Cruz has his reasons. He’s playing chess while Tom the Redhunter is playing checkers. There’s plenty out there explaining what I’m getting at, and I’m not going to waste my time amplifying further.
And speaking of our hostess, if you believe she’s “just repeating Tea Party-type talking points [at the level of] Sean Hannity,” you are welcome to turn your attention elsewhere. Neo-neocon offers insights and analyses and commentary far superior to the simplistic nyaah-nyaah approach I perceive in Sean Hannity. Your mileage may vary — and evidently does.
@Tom the Redhunter
As I’ve stated above, defunding Obamacare was not the actual objective.
You might think of this as “preparing the battlespace.”
Matt_SE,
Your claim is that Cruz is changing the political electoral landscape beyond just reindeer games in DC. That achievement implies a widespread voter effect. A widespread voter effect implies a corresponding active (activist) popular movement. Where is it?
I am proud to say that Ted Cruz is my senator. Cruz has a big advantage over Palin since he has been elected to the Senate already while Palin was a candidate for vice president. That power of incumbency gives Cruz a big advantage. I hope Cruz remains in the Senate for many years.
“I am proud to say that Ted Cruz is my senator.”
So am I.
@Eric
A widespread voter effect implies a corresponding active (activist) popular movement.
This implies that voter effects only manifest in the form of demonstrations or marches.
How about someone changing their mind? How about a preference cascade?
You won’t “see” those until election day.
I, too, am proud to say that Ted Cruz is my senator.
That’ll take a little explaining, given that I’m a resident of California. Let me put it this way:
-1- Dianne Feinstein and Call-Me-Ma’am Boxer are in no way my senators, in that they don’t represent me one-half whit. (Come to think of it, as I type away here, they’re both half-wits, especially Boxer.)
-2- But Ted Cruz *is* my senator — he’s just about the only guy taking it right back to the enemedia.
(-3- My consolation prize, however, is that Darrell Issa is, in fact, my actual Congressman. After my 15 months as a Californian, so far so good. Not perfect, but [ahem] only *I*’m perfect. [grin])
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
–Winston Churchill, who knew
Matt_SE,
An activist popular movement normalizes and educates a social action. Voters, or at least enough voters, won’t act properly unless they’re properly taught to act within a proper social context. That’s what an activist popular movement is for.
It’s not up to Cruz to build this national activist popular movement. That task belongs to the like-minded community organizers on the ground.
Otherwise, Cruz will just be out there with an insufficient group of supporters, sort of like the doomed student revolutionaries in Les Miserables wondering why the people didn’t spontaneously rise up with them.
The Right needs to accept nowadays the Marxist-method activist game is the only political electoral game there is. Consent is manufactured.
@Eric
Wow. That is a remarkably cynical (and might I add, leftist) view of the world.
People don’t need to be told what to think about this administration. The evidence is piling up on all sides: The cronyism, the lack of transparency and accountability, the empty promises, the incompetence.
Evolution/God made us to be able to recognize the truth. We see that our “elites” don’t listen to us. That’s why Cruz resonates, because he’s doing the people’s business.
Furthermore, the problem of the “low information voters” is not a conundrum for the ages. It’s as simple as this:
Americans have had too much peace and prosperity for too long. They’ve become so accustomed to it, they take it for granted.
Now, since we won’t be re-instituting the draft anytime soon, maybe we will continue to take war less seriously than it should be.
But the economic incompetence of the Obama administration is opening many eyes to the fact that, yes, it’s possible to mismanage the economy.
Oh, and to modify the tone of my post at 12:50 a little:
I recognize the need for organization. Robert’s Rules, etc…
But the people aren’t zombies whose “consent is manufactured” either.
We’ll see who was sniffing the KoolAide soon enough.
The Left’s psychologists have been able to make women remember being raped by their fathers, to the extent that the daughters accused the fathers of rape, because the Left hypnotized them and implanted false memories of that which did not happen.
People are not zombies whose consent is manufactured? Perhaps. But that only applies to people and humans, like myself, not those who wish to become dogs and pigs to be hunted by the Left. Those whose resistance to Authority is low, essentially are chickens. They can be told to act like a chicken while hypnotized and they will.
Resistance to hypnosis, suggestion, and interrogation is the key fundamental attribute for how human a person is.
“We’ll see who was sniffing the KoolAide soon enough.
No, we won’t….not soon, anyway.
The bill will fail, one way or another, and people will draw what conclusions they like.
We will only see the results in the 2014 elections. Even then, we may only get a glimpse.