Cruz v. Christie, the GOP conundrum

The GOP is a fractured mess.  Two NRO pieces demonstrate it.

Here's an anti-Cruz post.  By the time you are finished with it, you will be convinced that Cruz is the next Barry Goldwater.

In the other corner, is this post.  By the time you finish it, you may have realized that the GOP has definitely got a problem.  How to unite such a fractious group?

You may not be able to unite it.  You may have to bust it up.

Personally, I don't like Christie.  I like Cruz, but I am a bit suspicious.  If the party is to remain a party, perhaps neither should get the nomination.  Unfortunately, that doesn't inspire anybody.

Christie is an odd fellow.  He says things that sound like Al Davis, the NFL owner, who once said---"just win baby".  But what good is winning if you don't have anything you are trying to win with?  If all you are is a faux Democrat, what good is that?  Christie is the guy Democrats love to love when it doesn't matter, but they will definitely hate him up if he gets the nomination.  The GOP just keeps trying to emulate the Dems, but that doesn't work.  You have to be about something, and be somebody.

Cruz is somebody, but that could be a problem too.  What worries me about him is that he says what conservatives want to hear, but is that sincere?  Is it all just an act?  The other part of that is that conservatives are just a minority like the liberals.  If you run the party as a conservative party, you may lose everybody else.

You have to unite around something.  Let it not be around personalities.  That's what we got with Obama.

I recall what Gingrich said about politics in America---all too often, politics is about personalities, and not ideas.

One idea that I would favor is to get back to the Constitution.  The country has enough left that it could heal itself as long as it has the proper foundation in place.  The current foundation needs to be shored up.  It is cracking rather badly, as the current leadership of both parties seem bound and determined to crack up the rule of law and replace it with the cult of personality..