Wednesday, October 16, 2013
A Republican Letter to Senator Cruz
Dear Senator Cruz, I am a lifelong Republican. I served under your hero, Ronald Reagan, in Washington. I have never voted for a Democrat because I firmly believe that any Republican is better than any Democrat. Why? Because the GOP has always - from the days of our founder, Abraham Lincoln - represented fiscally responsible government and a genuine concern and caring attitude toward those in need but without ensnaring them in government entitlements programs that turn them and their children into an underclass of government-owned zombies at a cost that has brought America to its fiscal knees. The Republican Party has again and again led America toward the City on the Hill. And I realize that you are also trying to do this, too. But, Senator Cruz, you cannot help but realize that by continuing your impossible-to-win anti-Obamacare crusade, as honorable a goal as that is, you are risking the short-term viability of our Republican Party. How do you intend to overturn Obamacare if, because of you, the 2014 congressional elections create a House with a Democratic majority and a Senate that is still Democrat? What new disastrous laws and continuing explosion of the national budget deficit and debt will we see if President Obama has a supermajority - Presidency, House, Senate - in 2014-2016? Are you really working in the mistaken notion that your philosophical demands can help the GOP? You are wrong. Your filibuster made your phisophical point. It is long since time to release the inexperienced tea party House members who are naively following your inexperienced Senate leadership. It is likely that you have already dealt a temporary death blow to the Grand Old Party. And we Republicans have long memories. They reach back to 1860. Do not come to us in 2015 asking to be our presidential candidate. The answer will be 'No.' We would rather lose one presidential election than be led by a selfish politician whose personal goals are more important to him than the Republican Party we all love. Think about what you have done to the GOP. Yours sincerely, A Real Republican.
"Politics is the art of the possible." ___Otto von Bismarck.
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Senator Cruz should also remember that politics is the art of compromise. And when the philosophical good fight fight has been fought , it is then time to compromise get the best deal you can and regroup for the next battle.
ReplyDeleteNational politics is (or never has been) not the power of one. But as the very liberal , former Speaker of the House -Tip O'Neil once said ... "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL"
And local is about one - one man/woman, one vote, one door bell rang, one piece of campaign literature given out. ONE Senator Cruz is very powerful - especially when multiplied by a million.
"He Who Fights and walk Away, Lives To Fight Another Day"
I grew up in a Northeastern liberal republican/democratic state. I always matched to a different drummer. After being a founding member of William F. Buckley's "Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)" I joined the Young Republicans (YR's). Did I ever learn what "election politics' was all about vs "philosophical politics"
ReplyDeleteIn my home state YR's was the breeding ground for elected officials, party operators, etc. It wasn't about parties and fun. We learned and did serious stuff for us and the state GOP.
One thing I learned was that you fight the good fight, fight it as fairly as possible, be ethical, and if victory was yours all the better. But if defeat was immanent then get the best you could and ban together to defeat the side that stood 180 degrees opposite you (the democratic).
In my YR's we were all conservation (nearly all) early Libertarians,and some just party animals to some level. But we were united against the liberal democratic.
I don't know where the Ted Cruz's of the GOP learn their trade anymore. Just being a very good Attorney does not grant you prominence in politics ... or shouldn't
If you take a hardened stance on an issue there are 2 possible options that will come your way;
ReplyDelete1. WIN
2. Stay your course, remain inflexible to compromise when losing shows it's ugly face, and LOSE BIG TIME.
OR , One can stand on a issue responsibly, be prepared to negotiate, get your best deal, and come back tomorrow for yet another round
Yet, here we are today because of the "immovable mentality" (of many republicans, Tea Party members, and some Libertarians) on the brink of some disastrous results from the shut-down, and debit ceiling issues.
This whole mess lies on both sides of the "isle" in Congress and the Senate because of their ... Should have, Would Have, and Could Have thinking, while all the while doing NOTHING FOR THE COUNTRY.
Bismark didn't know about Obama and his style.
ReplyDeleteA great article Casey Pops. Timely, Honest, Factual, and Point Blank. I hope this gets to Senator Cruz.
ReplyDeleteNow that we have "blinked" in the face of making a real decision over one small element of our debt/spending/income problem at the federal government level, perhaps our resolve can drift towards other equally important issues:
ReplyDelete1. Immigration
2. Benghazi
3. Syria
4. Iran
5. Egypt
6. Iraq
7. Afghanistan
8. Muslin Brotherhood & associated Terrorist organizations
9. Tax Code
10. Flooding in Colorado
11. Damage in Dakota’s from freak winter storm
12. Terrorist attack at the Washington Shipyards
13. Terrorists murders at the Boston Marathoner
14. Relationship with Israel
15. Overall failure of Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East
16. Foreign Policy failure over the past 5 years
17.
My point with this list is that we have many other pressing problems facing this country that could have used the debating time that the just concluded debt ceiling topic used 3 weeks of and just reached the conclusion that was presented by various republicans at the start of this marathon.
Readers I feel that I have been let down today by the system. We were lied to by Obama and his administration as to the IMMEDIATE severity of the problem.
It’s easier to be part of the heard than to stand alone in the field of honor.
I was trying to think earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant. I have never seen it. I have never seen a major political party simply occupy placeholders, seats at the back table at the banquet, as the Republican Party is doing.
ReplyDeleteThere hasn't been any opposition, not any serious opposition. There may have been votes against this or that, votes against Obamacare. There may have been votes against the stimulus, but in terms of a package of policies, a package of principled beliefs, of opposition expressed daily by party leaders against what's happening in this country, there hasn't been.
I don't predict well, but here goes one ... I think that the GOP stands to lose upwards to 10-12% of their registration prior to the primary election of 2014. And further more if wherever these lost voters land are partially successful in 2014, the GOP stand to lose an additional 8-10% or the parties registration before the start of the 2016 Presidential election season. Thereby making it a totally marginal party.
This can all be set aside by the election of new senate and House leadership teams. Not just the Speaker and the Minority Leader ... everyone one in a leadership role. perhaps even some committee positions.
And at the National Republican Party headquarters we need to move to a new location over a weekend and not tell the leadership there either.