Posted on 12/16/2015 8:03:23 PM PST by 867V309
That's the difference between a self-funding candidate like Trump and a guy with mortgages out the wazoo to get to his Senate seat. Cruz had a long, brutal, no-prisoners fight against the Bush family's manorial "good government" RiNO tag-team, represented for the Senate fight by David Dewhurst, a wealthy businessman with two-thousand-dollar suits, billion-dollar backers, and the powerful lieutenant-governorship of Texas in his pocket.
Cruz's fight with Dewhurst cost a fortune and earned him the enmity of the Yankee Bush colony. Cruz may have had to take out a political mortgage, and his lack of Trump's explicit enunciation of a renewed 1925 restrictive view of immigration (obviously the best policy for the middle class American voter, based on previous history) may be due to his backers' influence. That's what I worry about.
When guys like Cruz begin parsing what they say, it's because they're trying to steer between interests both or all of which could damage them. Cruz may not be shining on the electorate; he may be trying to keep his senatorial primary-race donors off his back. In Texas, it seems like every guy with a billion dollars to rub between his fingers has an army of Mexican hammer-swingers in his cheapskate employ, and open borders is the catnip that brings these guys into Texas politics.
What Cruz would do if he made it into the Oval Office is hard to predict, but I find it hard to believe that the megabuck donors who backed him for senator would still have a long-handled wrench on him.
Does that not give you pause, when selecting a new President for a weakened Republic already termite-damaged by Leftist "green Constitution" rot and revisionism?
Yes, it does, as a matter of fact. Having watched Trump from afar for decades, I was actually somewhat amused and skeptical when he first entered the race. I honestly viewed the man as little more than a self-aggrandizing wanna-be politician who was rich enough, and famous enough, to forcibly insert himself into our serious national business.
He's threatened to run for office before, and I assumed he was doing it yet again. I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel that he'd actually go through with it this time.
But that was before I took the time to give the man a fair hearing, which I would never have done, had he not come out so boldly with his statements about illegal immigration, the southern border wall, and deporting illegals. It was the slap across the noggin that I needed to give the man a listen.
Cutting to the chase, he's continued to issue policy papers and state positions on the issues that resonate strongly with me. Every time he does this, it solidifies my support for him, and further convinces me that he 'gets it' better than anyone else in the race.
It's also important to note that, by taking such courageous stands, he's completely shifted the national dialogue, in regards to what's most important for our nation at this time. Do you really think Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio would have wound up in a fist fight in the last debate, had Donald Trump not forced the entire political establishment to confront the issue of immigration head-on? I don't.
Same with the issue of muslim immigrants/terrorism and a number of other issues. Trump alone has had the courage to break trail on politically radioactive topics, and has made it safe for the other candidates to take their own stands on those issues.
That is leadership. It can't be faked, and people know it when they see it. It's probably the biggest reason that he's swiftly become the most trusted candidate to tackle the big existential issues that are facing us.
I think most conservatives who support Trump wish that he were a bit more Reaganesque in his style, but at the end of the day, the most important quality in our next President is that of courage - that, and instinctively knowing which threats are most dangerous to the nation. Trump has both of those in spades, which is something I'm not confident the others do.
Alrighty - I'm getting long winded, and other obligations call. I've got to run, but I wanted to quickly respond to your question.
Merry Christmas!
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