Ted Cruz is a real comedian.
“If you sit back and you list who are the brightest stars in the Republican Party, who are the most effective advocates for free-market principles, you come up with names like Marco Rubio, like Mike Lee, like Rand Paul, like Pat Toomey, like Scott Walker,” Cruz said as a man in the audience at the New York State Republican Party dinner yelled his name.
“You have to go back to World War II to see such a transformation of the people leading the fight, leading the argument for conservative principles, being an entirely new generation of leaders stepping forward.” Cruz continued, describing the men who grew up while Reagan served in office. “In this new generation of leaders, you see the echoes of that same communication, that same love story of freedom, echoing we are right and all of us together are working to communicate that message.”
The idea that these clowns are “bright stars” is laughable. They’re wacko birds. Pretty much everything that they think they know about Ronald Reagan is false. About the only thing they should be giving Reagan credit for is starting the process of the conservative takeover of the Republican Party. Reagan made Ted Cruz possible, but he had very little in common with him.
For starters, Reagan had a personaility. When he stole little kids’ lunch money, he had a smile on his face. He wasn’t rude about it.
Mike Lee and Rand Paul are just aggressively stupid, and Ted Cruz specializes in weaponizing other people’s stupid. The future of the GOP isn’t bright; it’s dismal. It’s dismal because the party has been Palinized. And Cruz’s “bright stars” are the proof of that.
I completely agree, Booman. I find it fascinating that those who have imbibed of the Kool-aid don’t even notice that Reagan was nothing like the icon they worship. You’d think someone would notice. Back in Ronnie’s day there were those who acknowledged he wasn’t the man who was going to take them to their imagined promised land. James Watt made that observation (after he was sacked from Interior). Others too.
Hear, hear! Couldn’t agree more.
I’ve long regarded Reagan as the worst of the lot. If he hadn’t put a loveable, warm, avuncular face on conservatism, we wouldn’t have the rest of them.
And yet, Scott Walker is going to hand the Wisconsin Democrats their asses in 2014. The Republicans (nationally) may well be “Palinized” if by that you mean bringing nothing but stupid and mean. Here they are more “ALEC-ized”, but they are a formidable, highly organized operation that agitates for their message 24/7/365.
Right now the working class in Wisconsin has no organization that can stand up to them.
These folks have figured out how to weaponize white privilege and class envy to an impressive degree. The Democrats have nothing to counter it. If the national GOP catches on to how they are doing it they stand to become serious contenders for power nationally.
A more dire situation in WI than I was aware of. But if you read my “When Allen Would Be POTUS” diary, you would see that the national GOP is being run by a WI-ALEC-Koch guy.