Republicans are batting zero.

Republicans have two strikes on them but they don't care.

The first strike was in electing Ronald Reagan to be President. He came in with the message that government was bad. Republican voters believed him when he said you could cut taxes and balance the budget. But what he really accomplished was the destruction of our tax base and the beginning of debt creation that was difficult to turn back.

But we know that it could be turned back because Clinton did it in the late 1990's. There was a small increase in taxes and a very good job creation happening with the peak of the computer revolution...At least in the quantity of computers that people bought. But the budget was balanced.

The second strike was in electing George W Bush. He saw that Reagan was not aggressive enough with his tax cuts and government spending. So he went absolutely berserk in spending on wars and the defense department and even spent about a half-trillion or more on a prescription drug plan that paid off the pharmaceutical companies.

Now there is another striking resemblance on the horizon. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas has grabbed the Tea Party's attention and is making some old horses in the Senate very nervous. So far, Diane Feinstein and John McCain have given him a public scolding. He simply shrugs it off and laughs about it because he was able to get under their skins.

But Ted Cruz is different from both Reagan and Bush II in the fact that he is pushing in the opposite direction. He wants to now cut the programs that help people in order to balance the budget. The unbalanced budget is of more importance to him and his people than are the needs of the children or the elderly. There is something very cold-hearted about this latest re-incarnation.

If the Republican Party cannot get this one right, then they are looking at a called third strike. They are out of the game. No one or no one institution, such as the Democratic or Republican Party, can get away with but a limited number of blunders. Then they will either change or they will disappear. If the Republican Party falls for the negative-type campaign of a Ted Cruz, then I cannot imagine the people putting up with their Party forever? They will pay a price.

There is not doubt but that they would scoff at such remarks. Yeah, they've got the House and are set to win the Senate and maybe, it they get the right person, they can win the White House, also. That is where they are...