The Torch Should Pass From The McCains To The Cruzes

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Leadership: Sen. Ted Cruz's marathon filibuster against ObamaCare should be a turning point for the Republican Party. If its younger, non-establishment leaders don't take over, it could — disastrously — spell third party.

 

Sept. 24 and 25, 2013, should live in infamy for GOP McCainiacs. The subtext of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 21-hour-long filibuster could be a paraphrase of JFK's inaugural address:

 

"The torch has been passed to a new generation of Republicans, unwilling to permit the slow undoing of the constitutional rights to which this nation has always been committed."

 

Where were "old guard" Senate Republicans as Cruz gave his heart on the Senate floor for nearly a full day? They were snoozing, counting the sheep they so closely identify with, instead of standing with Cruz and his allies, like Mike Lee of Utah, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

 

Cruz wasn't long off the floor before Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a war hero, raised a white flag in one of the most disgraceful Senate speeches ever delivered.

 

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., aptly called it "the Democratic response" to Cruz. It can be summed up in two of McCain's own defeatist words: "We lost."