Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is the latest Republican to twist Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" to suit his purposes by falsely accusing Sen. Ted Cruz of violating it.
According to Brownback, the junior senator
from Texas is a big meanie for pointing out the objective
fact that Bob Dole's namby-pamby 1996 bid for the presidency was disastrous.
The congenitally outraged Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) agrees with Brownback and
is demanding that Cruz apologize.
But what did Cruz actually say to ignite such passions?
“You want to lose elections? Stand for nothing,”
Cruz said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in
the Washington, D.C. suburbs……. And then, of course, all of us remember
President Dole and President McCain and President Romney. Now look: those are
good men. They’re decent men, but when you don’t stand and draw a clear
distinction, when you don’t stand for principle, Democrats celebrate……. When
Brownback was asked whether his party should be nominating moderates or
conservatives, he said, “I think you’ve got to wait and see what the landscape
actually says at that point in time.”……To Read More……
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