It Doesn't Matter If the Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails

Ted Cruz, although he might not pitch it this way, is actually using some of Saul Alinsky's tactics against the Establishment who lives by Alinsky's rules.[clipper]

"Both the Ted Cruz talkathon and the brinksmanship over the stop-gap government funding measure (called a "continuing resolution") epitomize purposeful political theater. 

Ignore the blatherskite spewing from GOP establishment talking heads like Karl Rove:  there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing political things strictly for public consumption even when there is a less-than-direct or less-than-obvious relationship between the things done and the desired results.  It's not somehow dishonest or dishonorable to do this, contrary to the protestations of the pompous pundits who suck up air in the Washington echo chamber.

Although the master of political theater, Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky, was an irredeemably anti-American Marxist with a taste for political violence, he wasn't wrong about everything.  He believed in using public spectacles to generate the friction that is a precondition of change.  "Action comes from keeping the heat on," Alinsky wrote in his opus.  "No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."

It's time to stop worrying about the Republican Party and go to war for America's sake."     [American Thinker]