My Arts Editor directs my attention to this Politico article portraying Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) as reasonable:
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday urged residents of a Chicago-area congressional district to vote for a Democrat if they must, to avoid giving even one vote to an avowed Nazi who won the GOP nomination.
Cruz’s comments, made on Twitter, came after a POLITICO story detailed the Illinois Republican Party’s failed efforts to oust Holocaust denier Arthur Jones from the ballot or offer up an alternative for Republican voters.
“This is horrific. An avowed Nazi running for Congress,” tweeted Cruz. “To the good people of Illinois, you have two reasonable choices: write in another candidate, or vote for the Democrat. This bigoted fool should receive ZERO votes.”
It’s easy enough to laugh at Senator Cruz, given his reputation as a flake, and his father’s as a theocrat. But he, and everyone else, should really consider just how extreme the Republicans have become when they cannot find a reasonable candidate in one of the more populous states of the Union, the State of Illinois.
But Senator Cruz is eliding an important implication of this nomination. The fact that Jones is running in a heavily Democratic district against a Democratic incumbent is irrelevant to a central fact of the Republican Party:
It couldn’t stop an “avowed Nazi” from winning an important nomination.
Stop and think about that for a second. Nazis are not “just another political party,” as I’ve discussed before, but a system of government dedicated to power aggrandizement, conquest, and brutality, with little or no protection for minorities, dissident points of view, or any of the other important, even critical hallmarks of the liberal democracy.
And the Republican party was unable to understand this fact, recognize Jones as having a fundamentally un-American allegiance, and not only deny him the nomination, but to kick this bum and his supporters out onto the street.
They were permitted to stay and attain an important nomination. They had the numbers to do it.
If you’re a Republican, why? Why are you still enabling this appalling development? It’s not just embarrassing – it’s a danger to the Republic (see previous link concerning Nazi government).
And, since Cruz has now spoken out against a fellow nominee for national office, I have to wonder if he’ll eventually soon go from “far-right extremist” to being run out of the Republican Party for being a … RINO.
