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To: JewishRighter; All

You need to do some research. There is no bigger flip flopper than Ted Cruz, just during this election cycle. Donald Trump has been consistent, which the link I gave you proved. I ADMIRE Donald Trump for not being a blind partisan and changing his views over 69 years. These two parties are killing us. Stop using emotion, this is serious business.

Cruzers kept telling me last week that Trump did NOT get the vote 75% of Iowans....well guess what...Cruz did NOT get 88% of New Hampshire voters!

Look, Folks, why not pick a winner instead of the guy you think will represent your churchiness? It’s the only reason you have to vote for Cruz and represents THE problem.....identity voting...a black guy for the blacks, a Hispanic for the illegal aliens, and Hillary just because she says she’s a woman??

Donald Trump has PROVEN his leadership skills and his ability to wisely use money by running the MOST successful presidential campaign ever on a shoestring budget.....his FIRST political campaign. If you don’t have the intellectual curiosity to want to see what he can do for this nation, you’re just not playing with an open mind.


125 posted on 02/11/2016 12:25:25 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB
Here's my favorite part: "Stop using emotion, this is serious business." Judging by the rest of the post, I think you meant "STOP USING EMOTION, THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!" 1. It is patently untrue to say "there is no bigger flip flopper than Cruz". Donald has changed his position on every single significant issue. Every one. Other than nit-picking Ted Cruz on one or two issues, which are arguable, there's no there there.

2. Trump's changing views "over the years" have a) gone in one direction b) didn't happen over the years but virtually overnight.

3. I'm hardly voting my "churchiness" since I'm an Orthodox Jew (maybe I'm voting my synagogueiness). Either way, it is not identity politics to find virtue in a candidate that he is a man of faith and it accords with what our founding fathers said about the importance of Americans having morals and faith in order for the system of ordered liberty they designed to succeed.

4. Donald Trump has proven business leadership skills, which ultimately boil down to the greater glory of Donald Trump. He has never held any government post, which is a very different thing. In business, the object is profit, as it should be. In government, ideally, the object is service, discharging duties that faithfully represent the will of the people. It takes a person with a structured, systematic understanding of what our Constitutional form of government is and the ability to translate that to policy goals that inspire subordinates to follow. I don't see Donald Trump having any such systematic understanding. He seems to entirely believe that the same drive and determination that served him well in business can work in government. 5. Voting based on "intellectual curiosity". Now who is not taking this seriously enough?? The stakes are far too great for academic edification as a motive for voting. My intellectual curiosity is well satisfied by studying what Ted Cruz has said and done during his life which paints a picture of someone with a comprehensive understanding of our Constitutional system and of the principles of conservatism. Not only that, but he has actually demonstrated a courageous willingness to stand by those principles even when it made him very unpopular among his colleagues. And I find that very intellectually satisfying.

127 posted on 02/11/2016 12:55:43 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: AuntB

Consistently inconsistent...that's Trump. I'll take the more Conservative Iowans that the LIEberal socialists in New Hampshire any day. That goes double for the man who's funded the war chests of the enemy we've been fighting the last decade or more and sang their praises as recently as a year ago.

I know Trump's Trolls can't go far without trashing anyone personally or those who are even remotely religious so its a shame that you have resorted to such baseless attacks as well.

Our minds are all too familiar what happens when you elect someone with the morals of Bill Clinton and the narcissistic messiah complex of Obama. The country can't handle another "hopey changey" chameleon who's only adopted a conservative veneer a couple of months before announcement of his campaign. The myth of his "self-funded" campaign gets alot of air time, but its among the many tall tales put forth by the Trump team.

I'm not going willing to gamble the future with a man who can't even be faithful to his spouse and family. You can call it "churchiness", I call it CHARACTER...it matters.

133 posted on 02/11/2016 8:44:48 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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