By William McRight
There is an old adage in professional sports called “rooting for the laundry.” Simply explained, whatever painfully awful excuse for players team ownership trots out, you are expected to always support your team without fail. In other words, you are not rooting for the people in the uniform, you are rooting for the laundry.
It would seem to many out in the electronic hinterlands that party politics is nothing more than rooting for the laundry. Whether you swallow the Red Pill or the Blue Pill, it is supposed to be “my party, right or wrong.”
Sorry, Morpheus. I’m out.
In this election, I am rooting for a player. Specifically, two players, who need to team up most rickey tick. (I am not sure I was the first to throw out #Crubio2016 but I was darn sure an early beta tester and I am ready to deploy the Golden Master Version.)
The Republican Party for time immemorial has stood for smaller government, lower taxes, valuing the sanctity of life, a strong national defense, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. We are now to believe because of some goofy populist nationalist “movement” we are to abandon those principles and simply look the other way because of some gaseous, ethereal “anger.” It may be said that the current GOP “front runner” and his tiny little raccoon hands has, throughout most of his life, espoused big government, progressive, dare I say, socialist tendencies. News Flash, Dear Reader, type Nationalist Socialist into the Google machine and see what you get. Ugly. I bet it might take some time to disavow that too.
To the uninitiated, it may appear on the surface that this is some sort of movement. Consider the following –
Trump has won no “Closed” primaries. Maybe because he is a Democrat.
The Nevada Caucus was an Ape Fight and I am setting that one aside due to the weird sideshow reports all night
There has been depressed Democrat voting turnout with uptick in Republican turnout in many of these Open primaries. I have not crunched the numbers but it seems a little “Operation Chaos-ish” They are jumping the fence because they want a tin can in the general for Hillary. Simple.
Open Primaries are stupid.
I’d submit it is a movement all right. It is a movement of a career Democrat who is now calling himself a “uniter” in a party where he does not belong. And according to Herman Cain I am a blasphemer because I am not falling into line behind the “front runner.” Stick to pizza Herm, we’ve got this.
This is where we are. As conservatives and Republicans, we should not be brow beaten and pressured into supporting a supposed front runner. We should be supporting people, not party. We as a group support ideas and concepts of what America is supposed to and can be. Adhering to the aforementioned principles is WHAT WE DO. Remember? It is the job of conservatives to “stand athwart history and shout “Stop!” If our choices are a Democrat and a Democrat light, we should want nothing to do with it. We do not need a “Master of Branding.” The USA is not a brand. It is an idea. We need a Leader. We do not need a Showman. We need a Constitutionalist.
Contemplating where all of this ends up takes us into further uncharted seas. It is an ocean of questions filled with icebergs of anxiety floating around in foggy banks of uncertainty. Will the establishment folks figure out a way to turn Rubio’s one win and a bunch of not wins into the nomination? Will Trump actually fracture the party without having to jump out of the Trojan Horse that the Clintons helped him climb into? Can Ted Cruz convince the party to coalesce around him, despite the fact that “no one likes him” except millions of voters? Was Lindsey Graham drunk when he said he’d consider rallying around Cruz? Was I drunk when I heard him say it? Can #BenJohn please go away and stop (soon Lord..Please)? Can the two true conservatives form the #UnityTicket (#Crubio2016) that can snap us out of our sleepwalk among the slot machines and $5.99 buffets?
We need to win. We need to repudiate progressive policies and candidates that support them. If we cannot field Republicans, who by all measure are Democrats, we have no business calling our selves a legitimate option in a two party system. Coining a new phrase, “common sense conservative” that means nothing is not enough. Living principles and acting on them is more important that talk and showmanship. I ask you Dear Reader, please do not vote for the letter after the name. Vote for the man and his values and our long standing traditions. As for me, I will telegraph my move based on a couple outcomes. If the GOP nominates this guy, I am out. The party will have, in fact, left me. I will not vote for him. Ever. I will write in Ted Cruz and do it with a clear conscience. We have not gotten to that yet. We still have a chance.
And not to take too much credit, but @EWErickson and @GlennBeck are now both on board with #Crubio2016. I have been hash tagging it for months. Welcome aboard, Lads! I am a visionary pundit and no one knows it yet. I am pronouncing myself available for handsomely paying pundit gigs.
Hit me up at @sirvitup on Twitter!
Until that time, getcha popcorn ready. This will all be fun until it isn’t.
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