Originally posted by nashvillegoldenflash:
BBJ, I agree with you. As we all know, Republicans will often disappoint us. And to think I voted for Santorum in the 2012 Presidential primary. I realize this should be no surprise, but did you hear that RINO Bob Corker is pushing for a 12 cent federal gas tax increase. Pathetic!!!
Yes, I also voted for Santorum in 2012 and am surprised at his remarks.
At any rate, I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but have you noticed that the Democrats, the media (sorry, I just repeated myself), and the RINO's are ratcheting up their criticism of Cruz--slowly but surely? This tells me something. It tells me that they already recognize his prowess and ability to communicate conservatism--which threatens them. They'll always let you know who they fear the most. They're scared to death of Cruz, Flash. The war has begun.
In fact, here's an excerpt from rushlimbaugh.com entitled:
We Have a GOP Leadership Uncomfortable with Reagan Conservatism January 12, 2015
RUSH: Hey, just one more thing about that, too, folks. How many times have we heard Republican establishment people say, "The era of Reagan is over"? How many people have we heard say, "We gotta move on. We can't think about Reagan anymore. That's a trap. The days of Reagan are the old days. We gotta move on." You ever hear the Democrats say, "We gotta move on from FDR. We gotta move on from LBJ. We gotta move on from the Great Society. We gotta move on from the War on Poverty"? You never her 'em say that. They never denigrate their own like that.
And, I'm telling you, when you say "the era of Reagan is over" and we gotta move on from Reagan, you don't need me around to get people mad about that. They're fully capable of it on their own.
And then when you add to that how many Republicans in the Senate run around impugning Ted Cruz -- do you know how many people in the Republican base would love to see him elected president? And they know it, and that's why they're running around running Ted Cruz down. When's the last time you heard Democrats run down Elizabeth Warren? My only point is, it doesn't take me or anybody else on the radio or TV to get people mad at the Republican establishment. They are handling that all on their own.
Now, one thing, we have a story here from our buddies at NewsBusters in 2013. This is Brent Bozell's website that monitors what happens out there in the Drive-By Media and reports on it for people interested. I didn't see this, 'cause I don't watch the Sunday shows...
James Carville was on This Week, and he said Ted Cruz is the most talented and fearless Republican politician he has seen in 30 years.
Carville said, "I think Ted Cruz is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I've seen in the last 30 years. I further think that he's gonna run for president, and he's gonna create something. I'm not sitting here saying he's going to win, and I think Senator DeMint is right. I've listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina. Ted Cruz touches every button, and this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead and he's gonna be something to watch."
Now, the bit about Cruz being fearless, do not doubt that, and do not diminish the importance of that, particularly as Carville notes it here.
They will always tell us one way or the other who they are worried about. Carville wasn't finished. He said, "And a lot of Republicans feel this way, George, and you hear this a lot: 'If we only got someone who was articulate and was for what we were for, we would win elections. And we get these John McCains and these Mitt Romneys and these squishy guys that can’t do anything.' Well, there’s one thing this guy is not -- he ain’t squishy, not in the least."
Now, Carville is in a polling unit with Stan Greenberg, and part of what Carville does is to try to keep his finger on the pulse, primarily to help Democrats deal with it. Now, I happen to know that everything he says here is accurate about Ted Cruz. I don't know whether he's got it in his own polling data, but what I'm assuring you of here, he's not making it up. There are a lot of Republicans who are craving leadership right now. You know how many Republican conservatives there are in this country who would just kill for a candidate who could articulate conservatism the same way they do it?
I said last week, and I'm gonna repeat it here again, if such a candidate came along, a leadership, elected politician, elected office type politician, not a commentator, not a pundit, not a radio or TV person. I'm talking about somebody in elective politics who can come along and can articulate conservatism as the average American understands it, this guy could win in a landslide.
These people have been waiting for years for somebody to come along and simply say what they already know to be true, somebody to simply articulate what they already think and what they already feel. And they resent being told that what they think and what they feel is extremist and dangerous and is tiny, minority, and so forth. Because they aren't. They are the backbone of America. They are the ones that make America work. They're the ones that are totally invested in saving this country as founded. And they have nobody in elected politics who talks like they believe. They have nobody saying things they believe in. And the candidates that come the closest to it always get their universal support.
This is what Carville's afraid of, and make no mistake about this that Carville is concerned. He said that Ted Cruz is the most fearless Republican since Reagan. You can look it up. You can see it on YouTube. He was on "This Week Needs Brinkley, and he knows. They all know, folks. They all know. All these liberal Democrats know they are a minority. They all know. That's why they work so consistently to destroy their opposition in image and perception. They have to get people voting against their opposition because they're never gonna win if all that's happening is people voting for them. There aren't enough of those.
Liberalism is still a minority viewpoint in this country. You just don't know it because the media and pop culture is all liberal. But the Drive-By Media, the pop culture, music, TV, books, they're not writing and talking and doing TV shows about average, ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things every day. They don't make the news. They don't star in TV shows. They don't record songs. They don't write books. But everybody knows they're there, and that's why they are the constant targets of ridicule and impugn and destruction. And Ted Cruz has been the target of more of this than anybody in elective politics in a long time, and he has not wavered from it at all and that is respected.
But if it's not Cruz, if it could be somebody else, somebody that comes along and can simply articulate with passion and all the usual good cheer -- and by that everybody means optimism -- of the things people already in this country believe. Obama doesn't do it. People in this country don't believe what Obama's selling. They might have in 2008. They don't anymore. The only thing the Democrats can do is destroy the people they fear. All they can do is impugn the philosophies that they fear. They can't survive a debate in the arena of ideas, and they can't survive an election where, if everybody had to be voting only for something -- this election that just happened was a total anti-Democrat Party, anti-Barack Obama vote.
There's not a Republican leader out there people were voting for. Not yet. There wasn't a Republican agenda people were voting for, because the Republicans didn't have one. Now, as I say, individual Republican candidates did, running for the Senate, running against Obamacare, but once again it was against Obama. This election was clearly totally anti, of the people who showed up totally anti. Now, I know it was not a presidential turnout and, as such, the Democrat presidential turnout base didn't show up in as great a number as they always do. Doesn't matter to me. This can happen during a presidential year. I know all these people are gonna line up and tell you it can't, "Well, Rush, you look at the Electoral College, we lost New York, we lost California, we lose Texas, it's over, Rush, it doesn't matter."
That's what they want you to believe, that it doesn't matter. They don't want you even worrying about voting. They want you thinking it's hopeless. They want you thinking you don't have a prayer, the Republicans don't have a prayer, the deck is too stacked against you, the media, you'll never overcome the media, Hollywood, you'll never overcome Hollywood. They want you pessimistic about this. That's why anybody that comes along who shows any promise at articulating conservatism in any way that's infectious, they set out and try to destroy and impugn, media people included in this one, not just people in elective politics.
They have to. That's the first order of business for them. Now they've got Republicans believing that the only way they can win is to do what? Do what Obama's doing, grant amnesty to Hispanics? Really? That's not what people in this country are clamoring for. The Republicans are gonna win by siphoning off some Hispanic votes from Obama here and some African-American votes from the Democrats over there and some women votes and whoever over there. Suicide mission. Absolute suicide mission, yet that is what it appears to be the believed-in stratagem of the Republican leadership.
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RUSH: I also had somebody send me a note saying, "Hey, Rush, those four million Republicans that sat home in 2012, I don't know how many of 'em it is, but I talked to a bunch of people who thought the election was in the bag, and that's why they didn't vote. They thought Romney was gonna win in a landslide, and they didn't bother showing up to vote."
I've not heard any analysis of the electorate that stayed home in terms of that, a percentage reflecting that point of view. I suppose it could be true some. But I don't know too many people who wanted to take the chance. To some people, though, you know, to some people, voting is hard. You have to get up and go there, you stand in line. If you haven't registered you have to do that. You have to deal with people like at the DMV. To some people it's just too big a hassle. Don't doubt me on this.
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NewsBusters: Carville: "Ted Cruz Is the Most Talented and Fearless Republican Politician I’ve Seen in 30 Years" -May 5, 2013
This post was edited on 1/14 10:03 AM by bigbadjohn45
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