Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Cruz Control

There is a very real chance, apparently, that Ted Cruz could lose to Beto O'Rourke.  The election of a Democratic Senator in Texas will likely be written off (should it happen) to Cruz's incredibly loathsome personality.  However, which Republican politicians currently boast a winning and winsome personality?  Ben Sasse seems to be auditioning for the part, but most of these people are granny-starvers going way back.  Their basic governmental philosophy is "screw you, I got mine."  As loathsome as Ted Cruz is, how is he less repellent than Mitch McConnell?  James Inhofe?

Maybe Trump's own bloated moral stink has awoken people to how awful they all are.  They shall know ye by ye works.

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