Open Thread: Cruz Explains It All

Friend of the blog H.W. Crocker III, historian and novelist, pointed out this statement above by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to me.  It is easy to be wise after an election, but he saw this coming before the election.  Days before the election he announced that from what he had seen unless every Republican in Texas came out and voted for the Republican ticket, the Republicans were in jeopardy of losing every state wide office.  I thought he was being alarmist, but instead he was  being prophetic.

I think all this is a blessing in disguise.  The Republican party in many parts of the nation had become too fat and corrupt, with too many politicians lining their own pockets and paying only lip service, if that, to what the party purported to stand for.  Now the worst elements in our political life are in the saddle in Congress.  With determination and hard work this can be reversed.  Other than the people, Republicans and conservatives can rely on two forces:  God, who much of the Left hate and fears, and the Democrat party.  God helps them who help themselves, we being His instruments on Earth.  Democrats because their policies lead to economic stagnation, lack of freedom and insane social policies  and become places that people flee from.

We have been here before.  In the now forgotten Congressional elections in 1958, the GOP lost 48 House seats, and 13 Senate seats, the Democrats also gaining two Senate seats by winning both Senate races in the newly minted state of Alaska.  That gave the Democrats a 283 majority in the House against 153 Republicans and in the Senate 64 Democrats to 34 Republicans.  The Republicans would not control Congress again until after the 1994 elections.

Time in the political wilderness is never pleasant, but it is often fruitful.  So may it be now.

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