Madison Cawthorn reduced to trying to steal another Republican’s district
We’re so sorry, Ted Cruz, but it looks like we’re going to have to pass the torch. We understand this might be difficult for you to accept. After all, you’ve proudly held this torch for so long. Perhaps you were lulled into thinking it would ALWAYS be yours to own.
But alas, there is a new standard-bearer — a new recipient of the torch. So now might be the time to surrender your torch — as the the politician most hated by members of one’s own party. The adjustment period might be long. But it’s hardly surprising. I must admit that there are many choices for this award, although you have held on tightly. But now Madison Cawthorn has come along. And he stands poised to grab the torch from your fingers.
Per Citizen-Times, Cawthorn is succeeding in his quest to make himself utterly loathed. This quest came about because Cawthorn switched districts. He leaped from the 11th Congressional District into the arms of the 13th District. And this move infuriated Republicans.
It did so because another Republican, North Carolina House representative, Tim Moore, was going to run in that District. And because of Cawthorn’s selfishness, he was forced to take himself out of the running.
The Citizen-Times report says Cawthorn’s actions were met with repulsion and disgust by other GOP members. And it has set off an “uncivil war” among North Carolina Republicans: “This isn’t a noble effort. This is ambitious cowardice at its worst.”
Ambitious cowardice. I like that term as it applies to Cawthorn. Mad Madison is an ambitious coward. And now perhaps he is poised to steal the torch of shame from Cruz — definitely not an easy thing to do.
