by JASmius
Sound advice, from beginning to end......
You see, it was not, nor was it ever, that Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, et al were wrong - they were spot on target about ObamaCare. It's what the entire Right has been full-throatedly shouting from the rooftops for the past four years. Their only errors were in pulling the confrontation trigger too soon and being unable to accept the according criticism for it.
As I've said here before, it is human nature that people don't truly learn a lesson other than the hard way. A man can be told something over and over and over again, but until he experiences it for himself, he won't internalize it. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it, "When it happens to you, you'll know it's true." Such was the case with ObamaCare. A narrow majority of the public has consistently been against it, but that didn't prevent a narrow majority from re-electing Barack Obama, either. That clearly suggests that while public opposition was widespread, it wasn't deep-seeded. Ditto the greater unpopularity of a government shutdown than of O-Care itself.
No, the only way to truly turn the public against the ACA to Cruzian fervor was for it to take effect. Now that we're nearly a month into it and more people have lost their coverage than have been able to enroll at gob-smackingly higher premium rates, drawing withering public ridicule to accompany burgeoning public anger, the ground is rapidly ripening for the kind of public backing for jettisoning of ObamaCare, and the Democrat Party along with it, that such a public campaign requires. And another dual opportunity awaits come January 15th and Febuary 7th.
The Tea Party and the GOP "establishment" have a "platinum plan" opportunity to "shoot the moon" on the entire healthcare issue. They would both be well advised to stop bashing each other and avail themselves of it. They will not get another one.
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