If 2016 is a disaster, Cruz will be the only major Republican to emerge from the Trump fiasco with his principles intact.
Say what you will about Ted Cruz’s politics or personality, but it takes a special kind of badassery to stand up at a convention — in front of millions of viewers — and unfurl a comprehensive attack on the party’s nominee. It’s also unprecedented. Last night, Cruz gave a commanding and inclusive speech about conservative values. It was so good that the crowd forgot to boo until he was more than halfway finished.
“Stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom.”
“Freedom matters, and I was part of something beautiful.”
All these words were broadsides against Donald Trump’s candidacy. By the end, the crowd tried to drown him out with boos and pro-Trump chants. Cruz’s wife had to be escorted out of the convention center because a mob of Trump fans was threatening her. A man in a donor suite had to be restrained when Cruz walked by. They don’t want something beautiful at the RNC, they want something angry.
When Trump first ran for the presidency he claimed the Republican Party was nothing but a bunch of spineless weasels who didn’t have the mettle to fight. Trump then won the nomination and most of the Republican establishment proved his contention true by backing a candidate whose worldview directly conflicted with their own stated beliefs.
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So while it takes guts to pull off what Cruz did, there wasn’t much downside politically. It seems unlikely that a Trump victory would mean an end of his Senate career. If 2016 ends up being a disaster for his party — and, right now, it’s a good bet it will — Cruz will be the only major Republican to emerge from the Trump fiasco with his principles largely intact. Maybe, as his critics claim, he’s just laying the groundwork for 2020. Maybe it will backfire. Maybe only someone as stubborn and egotistical as Cruz could do it. So what?
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In A Party Full Of Cowards, Cruz Stood Apart https://t.co/ZJpDl8VAB6
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) July 21, 2016
I don’ know who that group of people in the convention hall was, but it wasn’t a group of conservatives
Kleindropper, it surely isn’t conservatives as we would describe them, but then, they all demand that we bow to their supposed conservative savior! The very one who has told them who he was all along but they refuse to listen. This includes evangelicals, Palin, Schafly, Jeffress, etc. They have no excuse and I refuse to give them any.
The GOP is done, over with. It’s time to sweep up the ashes and go forward to form a new coalition of conservative partners.
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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