Posted on 11/12/2015 7:21:38 PM PST by JoeSeales
Those two certainly have something going on.
Again, the reality star aspect of Trump is almost like a hobby to him, and responsible for perhaps a single digit percentage of his fortune. Do educate yourself about his career as a builder, redeveloper and landlord to millions of people and businesses, and his company's presence in many countries around the world.
Ted Cruz is not electable because of the depths of social disorder, low-info voting, expensive-to-counter voter fraud and his relative youth, not even to mention his permanently worried facial expression and rehearsed-sounding vocal presentations. I love his mind and wish the country were ready for him; but like others on this thread, I perceive the need for a wrecking ball and bulldozers to clear away the mess FIRST before we can rebuild our Temple in this particular Jerusalem.
Trump was correct when he insisted that the Federal liberalism on the issue of anchor babies was not legally correct; and after he brought up and clarified the issue last summer, registrars around the country have felt empowered not to automatically issue an American birth certificate to anchor babies. He was attacked in the press for it, but Constitutional scholars have come forth to support his assertion.
I'm just guessing, but maybe his sister, a Federal circuit court judge, may have been discussing Constitutional issues with him for, oh, let's see, she is older than him -- decades, perhaps?
Your comments over and over reveal scant actual knowledge of the man and lots of emotional, reactionary bias and attendant pontificating. But saying a thing because you feeeeel a thing doesn't make it true.
Are conservatives to prefer "liberal" versions of Christianity? And then there are Carson's real estate profits:
Ben Carson calls convicted felon who defrauded insurance companies while he was a dentist his 'best friend'
Ben Carson is defending his business associate, a Pittsburgh dentist who helps Carson bring in between $200,000 and $2 million annually
Ouch! LOL!
My post addressed several of you at one time. If you're not guilty, don't confess.
Isn't it a touch OCD to have to preface every mention of Trump with the word chump? Every one! Analyze that.
Point well taken; for the record, I wasn't knocking Trump for it, but commending him for understanding what he has to do to reach the uninformed among the electorate.
While we're on the topic, here's this for a laugh: I Ended the War in Iraq
Yeah, results like that they are all beating us to a pulp economically and sending their rifraff here to be fed and housed while they laugh and plan our extinction if we elect one more compassionate useful idiot.
One of the Iowa polls showed Trump doing exceptionally poorly with female voters.
That's not a negative; that's a recommendation. Feminists are afraid of men and male-female relations. If they like men at all, it's metrosexuals and gay men.
That does not constitute the formal diagnosis you put forth.
That would be Trump's pro-abortion sister, whom he thinks would be a "phenomenal" Supreme Court justice.
These were GOP women voters, more likely devout Evangelicals, not feminists.
Chavez and Hussein wrecked their own countries and died. Not exactly beating us to a pulp. Putin is invading other countries and running his own economy into the ground. Strongmen try to control too much. Similarly, Trump thinks we need to put better people in charge of government when what we really need to do is cut government and give control back to the people. Giving up power is not the natural instinct of the alpha male strongman.
Cruz is not a compassionate useful idiot. He’s strong, firm and uncompromising without being a bully who goes into an uncontrolled rage against anyone who offends him. Cruz is not power mad or power hungry. He is ready to shrink government and give power to the people rather than just try to “run it better.”
I'd be the first to agree it was an unfortunate overreach; I wish he had worded it differently; but I've long ago stopped letting human imperfections ruin the big picture -- DT is still the best candidate for what we need now, IMO. Glad to hear you are a Tea Partier, and a homeschooler as well. It takes time to get to know one another's "nuances" here online. I wish for your children and mine that this were still a Christian culture; I remember when it was and how different it was and I miss it all the time. We only appear to differ on the best way to get some of it back in our lifetimes.
I view his Christian faith as different from mine, neither more liberal or conservative. Just as you are a “Bible - only” Christian, and I am a devout Catholic, I don’t consider you a non-Christian.
As to Dr. Carson’s real estate dealings, so what. He made an investment alongside a man later convicted of Medicare fraud. But Medicare can have extremely low reimbursement rates which raises the question who is the real fraud.
If you think feminist entitlements haven't invaded the evangelical church, you haven't volunteered in a church lately. Are you aware that the divorce rate among evangelicals is as high as in the unchurched population?
Chavez and Hussein wrecked their own countries and died. Not exactly beating us to a pulp.
I said, "beating us to a pulp economically", and was specifically referring to Trump's main points of how China, Mexico and the Middle Eastern dictatorships are beating us on trade deals and oil prices and sending their illegals over here and devaluing currency as well. Let's not forget his other points about the TPP and the Iran nuclear deal. Every other thug has his hand in our pocket, and he is the only one experienced at tough negotiations with people quite outside our Constitutional frame of courtly behavior.
Trump thinks we need to put better people in charge of government when what we really need to do is cut government and give control back to the people. Giving up power is not the natural instinct of the alpha male strongman. Cruz is... strong, firm and uncompromising without being a bully who goes into an uncontrolled rage against anyone who offends him. Cruz is not power mad or power hungry. He is ready to shrink government and give power to the people rather than just try to "run it better."
Your post reveals that you don't know what you're talking about regarding how Trump would run things or how a great organization is run and the difference between a national economy and a global economy that runs by different rules; so I'll chalk it up to a lack of executive experience on your part. There is a vast, vast gulf between putting better people in charge of government and cutting government -- there have to be some government leaders, even if their job is to incrementally dismantle their huge bureaucracies under Trump's guidelines, so that we don't descend into anarchy. We can't expect even Cruz to just shut it all down and throw all functions people are now engaged with into chaos without any transitional planning.
Secondly, where is the "uncontrolled rage" of which you write? I saw a well-aimed, if crudely expressed, series of statements in a conversational tone of voice about the dubious claims of a rival in the race whom pollsters and the media has set up, it appears falsely, as a neck-and-neck contender.
If I were you, I wouldn't bet too much on your political instincts in this race.
sitetest, that is a "first" on FR; and while we may disagree on this race, for that I heartily commend you. My family is half-and-half, and I respect both traditions, and decry the contamination by pop culture and the marxist infiltrators wherever they are found in all types of churches. Nice jousing with you, and have a blessed weekend.
That is an unfortunate aspect; but not a deal-killer; the problem is the secularized culture in which voters have allowed abortion to remain legal so they may practice their Marxist sex. We need a religious revival, but a president cannot bring that about. The the topic at hand was the claim that Trump had no idea whatsoever of Constitutional law. Just because he sounds like a Brooklyn pipefitter doesn't mean he is unable or unwilling to understand the fundamentals of our system. To make an analogy, he has had to master reading blueprints although he isn't an architect or engineer. He knows what a foundation is, and that the Constitution is our national blueprint. (Just an analogy; not an invitation to split hairs over the difference between a blueprint and a legal document...)
Maybe not strange...
I have been so overwhelmed for him today....
I prayed if God willed, He would cover him from media abuse.
This may be God humbling him and yet, covering him.
We’ll see.
But we can hold the line by not electing someone who will put an open pro-abort on the Court.
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