The Light Bearer

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result. Thus, by definition, the Grand Old Party of the United States is insane! For eight years the GOP has trotted out a moderate bootlick in Mitt Romney and John McCain. For each of the last two elections the establishment GOP politicians have tried their best to get each candidate to shift their thinking from right of center to a more centered approach. Each time the establishment approach has failed! In the 2012 Presidential debates Mitt Romney was on the selvage of victory. After the first debate most polls across the country had Romney winning by a slim margin. However, instead of putting his foot down and exterminating the Obama administration he decided to sway back to the left of center margin and accept defeat. Obama offered it all up for the taking, it was right there, all Romney had to do was perform exactly like he did during the first debate and he’d be sipping his coffee in the East Wing. Instead of hammering the President on the circus that he calls his foreign policy he implied to the country that Mr. Obama’s foreign policy was something to laud. Instead of asking the President why, the previous month, he allowed four American citizens to die in Benghazi he simply allowed him to offer up another deceptive excuse. Instead of pouncing on the opportunity to hammer the Presidents’ statement, “that al-Qaeda is on the run”, he simply let it slide, and the results have been catastrophic. The foreign policy that Mr. Romney said he would not change has allowed Russia to annex the Crimean peninsula. That same foreign policy has allowed ISIS to take over Iraq and slaughter and burn Christians alive. That same foreign policy is brokering a nuclear deal with Iran, a country that supports terrorism across the globe on a daily basis, and states “that Israel’s destruction is non-negotiable.”

As we stand here today the GOP has the opportunity to right all that wrong, to finally get behind a non-establishment candidate and finally support a candidate that will stand for conservative values. The GOP has been afforded the opportunity to pick from an extensive group of individuals that are qualified to be commander in chief. But instead of getting behind the candidate that can run on conservative values, the candidate that can ignite the conservative and Christian grassroots base of this country, they simply turn their attention to another back-scratch republican in Jeb Bush. Democrats get it. Democrats don’t send some moderate liberal out to run as president. They sent Barack Obama in 08 not because he was black, not because he was a smooth talker, but because he was as left as left gets. Now they’re trotting out a candidate in Hillary Clinton that is even more to the left than the current administration.

It’s been over 30 years since the GOP had an opportunity to back a presidential candidate that ran on true conservative values. Ronald Reagan ran a campaign that was as conservative as conservative gets. Reagan ran on principles such as beefing up the military, doing away with social programs, getting the government out of Americans lives, and letting the economy fix itself by allowing capitalism to thrive. At the time there were many GOP critics that claimed Reagan was too extreme, that his policies would never work, and that he could never get enough votes from the independents because of his extremism.  In 1980 President Reagan won the election over Jimmy Carter in one of the most lopsided elections in history. Reagan ended up winning 489 electoral votes to Carters measly 49. He also dominated Carter in the popular vote by winning roughly 44 million votes to Carters 35 million. In fact, Reagan won 44 out of 50 states.

Now our nation finds itself in an eerily similar situation to the one that it was presented with in 1979. Russia threatens the entire European continent, Iran is still sponsoring terrorism, the economy is fluttering on at a stagnant pace, and the strong arm of the government is bigger than it has ever been. Yet the one candidate that comes out in opposition of all the former policies that got us into this mess, including policies brought on by former GOP presidents, is eschewed by his party. GOP establishment grunts such as John McCain call him a “wacko bird”. Recently a GOP Rep said that he would jump off a bridge if this candidate were selected as president. Instead of getting behind and supporting the only conservative in this fight, Ted Cruz, the establishment right-wing criticizes his every move. They criticize him and blame him for the government shutdown of 2013, when in fact the government was already shut down, and Ted Cruz was the only republican willing to lace up his gloves and come out swinging against Obamacare, while his counterparts trembled in the corner. Exit polls in the 2014 mid-term election showed that 45% of the country finds the economy to be the number 1 priority and another 53% believe that the government is involved in far too many things that should be left to private business. Even though Ted Cruz has come out in extreme opposition to the policies that caused this stagnant economy and this huge government, he is criticized by his colleagues. Ted Cruz claim’s that “pastors should pray and preach against gay marriage just as Daniel and God did,” however, the GOP establishment believes that they should have a moderate candidate that caters to the dismal 3% of the U.S. population that identifies themselves as LGBT. The GOP forgets the fact that 60% of the U.S. population is comprised of Christians and that in the last presidential election only 50% of the registered Christian voters showed up to the polls largely due to the fact that they trotted out a Mormon moderate in Mitt Romney. In other words the GOP shuns the one candidate that can actually rally Christians (the largest voting base) around him. Instead of rallying around a candidate that supports military growth and benefits for those that have paid the price fighting America’s wars, the GOP thinks we need to have a candidate that will keep the military budget the same while providing the same enormous amount of money to social programs and foreign aid. The GOP again forgets that 70% of registered veteran voters showed up to the polls in 2012 and that 24% of the U.S. populations are American Veterans.

It is time for the GOP to change. It is time for the GOP to realize that it must give conservatives, Christians, and patriots a reason to go to the polls, and stop trotting out candidates that cater to the same policies that have failed us for 30 years. The GOP must rally around the only conservative in this race, TED CRUZ! And if the establishment decides that Cruz is too “extreme” for them, then the conservatives, Christians, and patriots of this country must let it be known that he’s our type of extreme! Ronald Reagan once stated that the United States of America is a shining city on a hill. Well I’m here to tell you that light has become so dim that the rest of the world can barely see it. But there is promise on the horizon, there is a man that can stand and restore those values in which America was formed upon, there is a man that can restore God to the country that has forsaken him, there is a man bearing a light to this city on the hill! This man wears ostrich skin cowboy boots, hails from Texas, and his name is very familiar to the White House walls. This man goes by Ted!