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Title: Ted Cruz and the Trump Takeover
Source: VDare
URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/ted-cruz-and-the-trump-takeover
Published: Jul 21, 2016
Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
Post Date: 2016-07-21 23:37:10 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 370
Comments: 7

The self-righteousness and smugness of Ted Cruz in refusing to endorse Donald Trump, then walking off stage in Cleveland, smirking amidst the boos, takes the mind back in time.

At the Cow Palace in San Francisco in July of 1964, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, having been defeated by Barry Goldwater, took the podium to introduce a platform plank denouncing “extremism.”

Implication: Goldwater’s campaign is saturated with extremists.

Purpose: Advertise Rocky’s superior morality.

Smug and self-righteous, Rocky brayed at the curses and insults, “It’s a free country, ladies and gentlemen.”

Rocky was finished. He would never win the nomination.

Richard Nixon took another road, endorsed Goldwater, spoke for him in San Francisco, campaigned for him across America. And in 1968, with Goldwater’s backing, Nixon would rout Govs. George Romney and Rockefeller, and win the presidency, twice.

Sometimes, loyalty pays off.

About Cruz, a prediction: He will not be the nominee in 2020. He will never be the nominee. If Trump wins, Cruz is cooked. If Trump loses, his people will not forget the Brutus who stuck the knife in his back.

To any who read Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent or saw the movie, Ted Cruz is the Senator Fred Van Ackerman of his generation.

Yet, beyond the denunciations of Trump and disavowals of his candidacy, something larger is going on here.

The Goldwaterites were not only dethroning the East Coast liberal establishment of Rockefeller, but saying goodbye to the Republicanism of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon.

Something new was being born, and births are not a pretty sight.

What was being born was a new Republican Party. It would be dominated, after Nixon, by conservatives, who would seek to dump the Accidental President, Gerald R. Ford, in 1976. They would recapture the party in 1980, and help elect and re-elect Ronald Reagan.

Vice President George H. W. Bush won in 1988 through the exploitation of cultural and social issues. His Democratic rival, Gov. Michael Dukakis, opposed the death penalty, opposed public school kids taking the Pledge of Allegiance, and had a progressive program to give weekend passes to convicted killers and rapists like Willie Horton.

Once this became known, thanks to Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater, the Little Duke was done. The Dukakis tank ride in that helmet, to show his aptitude to be commander-in-chief, probably did not help.

The crisis of today’s Republican Party stems from a failure to recognize, after Reagan went home, and during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, that America now faced a new set of challenges.

By 1991, America’s border was bleeding. Thousands were walking in from Mexico every weekend. The hundreds of thousands arriving legally, the vast majority of them Third World poor, began putting downward pressure on working-class wages. Soon, these immigrants would begin voting for the welfare state on which their families depended, and support the Party of Government.

By 1991, free trade had begun to send our factories and jobs overseas and de-industrialize America.

By 1991, an epoch in world history had ended. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Cold War was suddenly over. America had prevailed.

“As our case is new,” said Lincoln, “so we must think anew and act anew.” Bush Republicans did not think anew or act anew.

They were like football coaches who still swore by the single-wing offense, after George Halas‘ Chicago Bears, the “Monsters of the Midway,” used the T- formation to score 11 touchdowns and beat the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL championship game, 73-0.

What paralyzed the Republicans of a generation ago? What blinded them from seeing and blocked them from acting on the new realities?

Ideology, political correctness, a reflexive recoil against new thinking, and an innate inability to adapt.

The ideology was a belief in free trade that borders on the cultic, though free trade had been rejected by America’s greatest leaders: Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

The political correctness stemmed from a fear of being called racist and xenophobic so paralyzing, so overpowering, that some Republicans would ship the entire Third World over here, rather than have it thought they would ever consider the race, ethnicity or religion of those repopulating America.

The inability to adapt was seen when our Cold War adversary extended a hand in friendship, and the War Party slapped it away. Rather than shed Cold War alliances and rebuild our country, we looked around for new commitments, new allies, new wars to fight to “end tyranny in our world.”

These wars had less to do with threats to vital interests, than with providing now-obsolete Cold Warriors with arguments to maintain their claims on national resources and attention, not to mention their lifestyles and jobs.

With Trump’s triumph, the day of reckoning has arrived.

The new GOP is not going to be party of open borders, free trade globalism or reflexive interventionism.

The weeping and gnashing of teeth are justified.

For these self-righteous folks are all getting eviction notices. They are being dispossessed of their home.

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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

God bless Buchanan and Vdare.

rlk  posted on  2016-07-22   0:39:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

I think Cruz got it right, he is going to be able to say this mess isn't down to me I never endorsed him

paraclete  posted on  2016-07-22   2:33:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

1968 the party rallied behind big government ,progressive ,'law and order'restoring Richard Nixon .Yeah I see the comparison to Trump.

In bridge, you have wild cards called trump cards. The trump cards are really wild because they change from hand to hand, depending on the bidding.

tomder55  posted on  2016-07-22   6:28:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

The Canadian, high pitched pedophile voiced KILLary sell-out committed POLITICAL SUICIDE. Stick this paultard asshole with a fork and call him finished.

Bye bye, lyin Ted

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2016-07-22   7:29:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: paraclete (#2)

I think Cruz got it right, he is going to be able to say this mess isn't down to me I never endorsed him

He will be able to say that from a position of toothlessness as the country rolls over him and on without him.

Either Trump will win, in which case Cruz will be discarded by the GOP.

Or Hillary will win, in which case the whole GOP will be discarded in all but the shouting.

Vicomte13  posted on  2016-07-22   7:34:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: tomder55 (#3)

The law and order comments by Trump are in reference to the lawlessness displayed by the Hillary/Comey debacle and the apes who are chimping out and massacring dozens of cops at a time. There's no comparison between that and Nixon's battles with smelly, leftist hippie's.

Logsplitter  posted on  2016-07-22   11:24:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: GrandIsland, nativist nationalist, paraclete, Vicomte13 (#4)

The Canadian, high pitched pedophile voiced KILLary sell-out committed POLITICAL SUICIDE. Stick this paultard asshole with a fork and call him finished.

Bye bye, lyin Ted

That sounds like what Palin said, I just read it at RedState this morning.

Her hero Trump didn't even invite her to speak at 'his' convention (he invited Cruz though).


Yet they found time for Scott Baio and that gay paypal guy. (get a clue Sarah, you embarrass him, and that is hard to do)

Palin is like the compass that points everywhere but North.

Saraha Ah Hah … Sorry, Sarah Pwah Ha Ha Ha … I’m So Sorry, Sarah PALIN Says Ted Cruz’s Career Is Over(July 21, 2016 )

TrappedInMd  posted on  2016-07-22   12:32:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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