I like Ted Cruz. He’s a good man whose done a lot for the conservative movement. At some point last week, in open chamber, he repeatedly called the January 6 protest an act of terror. Bear in mind, to his credit, after he was called out for the remarks on the Tucker Carlson show, he appeared on the program the next day and referred to his remarks as “sloppy and stupid.”
So why did he do it?
Let me explain what happens to almost all, (note here I used the word almost) conservatives when they stay in DC too long, and I’ve seen this first hand, they change under the surface where we generally don’t see it.
DC is a liberal city where the liberal Congress run society. Conservatives generally aren’t invited to the socials in Chevy Chase, or Potomac, McLean, or Georgetown, unless the left needs to get something out of them.
The famous, no matter what they need, don’t jet into the city and ask to have dinner with conservative members of Congress.
Lobbyist will pay off conservative members of Congress of course, but generally, the money goes to the left and not the right.
Conservatives…..I’m not talking about Republicans, but Conservatives…..are always outnumbered in DC.
So they change because they want to be invited to the right parties on weekends, they want lobbyist money, and they get tired of standing alone so they have weasel moments like Ted Cruz had with his poorly placed words.
But let’s not toss the baby out with the bathwater, as conservatives so often do. (Which more or less explains the failure of the conservative movement) The above probably doesn’t apply to Senator Cruz and he seems to have made a blunder in a lengthy career of doing the right thing in the face of overwhelming odds. Ted Cruz is a good and decent man who made a mistake. He’s not the cause of the problem.
The cause of the problem are the conservatives who blundered into the Capital Building and knowingly broke federal law and harmed the rest of us in the conservative for decades to come. The left controls the media and universities and the media and universities will ensure that the conservative “terror attack” will never be forgotten.