I would agree with you Jeff if I didn’t believe Donald Trump’s entire political belief system was straight out of the Vampire Economy corporate welfare pay for play playbook.
He has soent his entire adult life navigating the NY City/Northeast pay for olay power structure and it forms his belief system and makes his guiding lught big government.
I will take a floor fight iver electing Trump which is just the male version if Hillary workd view in a man’s suit instead of a maoist pabtsuit.
Genuinely crafted letter of wisdom
As a financial contributor of his through the primaries, I have an email address that is most likely to get to some of his inside people.
Senator Cruz, April 20, 2016
I wanted to write this letter to you in the hopes that you will get it and get the chance to read it. I leave that in God’s hands, but I will also post it on a few Conservative sites and Facebook.
I have been, and am, a supporter and admirer of yours.
You have been a staunch supporter of the constitution, conservative values, and stood (many times alone) against a GOP Establishment that has not kept faith with the conservative base of the party who elected them.
I have supported you from afar as you won offices in Texas, my native home state, including your stunning victory for the US Senate. I have supported you through these Presidential primaries and worked in my own state to help you win Idaho. I have sent money into your campaign.
Now we have reached a stage where things are coming into focus.
I know, as an individual with the will and the stamina and dedication to run for President that you are absolutely convinced of your need to win this race. What I am about to say, will not be easy to say or to read.
However, reality is now showing that mathematically that victory is out of reach through the primaries before the convention.
I know you can, and that you seem willing to try and do all in your power to take the fight to the convention floor and somehow stop Donald Trump from getting the delegates he needs so you can fight him on the convention floor and win the nomination.
As a devout Christian, as an American who loves this nation and the Constitution, I urge you not to do this.
Here is why.
I believe the single worst thing that we could do, that would almost assuredly lead to a Hillary Clinton victory, is to have an ugly convention fight that ends up taking the nomination away from a man who will have earned by far the largest share of the vote, and who will have also probably come within a hair's breadth of winning the necessary delegates. Quite frankly, after his New York victory and depending on what happens on April 26th, I believe it very possible, perhaps even likely, that he will get to the delegates necessary before the convention in any case.
I know the GOPe and many who have had the vilest things to say about you are now hoping to use you to stop Donald Trump. Their support for you is feigned and they will throw you to the curb the instant they can in order to retain their own power...and, in my own estimation, they do not care if it means Hillary Clinton being elected to do so.
I have studied your positions and your speeches and I agree with them and support them whole heartedly. But I have also studied the positions that Trump has now put out and the details. They are very similar to your own senator. I guess the big question is whether we believe Donald Trump would actually follow through and implement them.
I believe that if he has the right people around him, helping him, showing him how...that he will.
Senator Cruz, a raucous, ugly fight at the convention will almost ensure that one or the other large segment of the people who voted in the GOP primaries will be very angry and we will lose many of their votes in the general, or worse, they will try a 3rd party run.
Either of those scenarios hands the election to Hillary Clinton or the DNC.
As a nation we absolutely CANNOT afford a 3rd Obama term or worse. The impact to the Supreme Court, to foreign policy, to our finances, to a continued erosion of moral values, and almost every other critical national interest would all be catastrophic. Stopping that HAs to be the 1st order of business.
You are in a unique position (and God has placed you there) to be able to stop this. I know it is not the way you or I envisioned you being able to do it. But it is the truth nonetheless.
I plead with you Senator Cruz, be the voice of reason. Be the uniter. Do it soon where it can have the most effect and impact.
Should Trump do well on April 26th and then in Indiana, I urge you to meet with Mr. Trump and be willing to set aside pride, war hatchets, and whatever is necessary to come to an accommodation between the two of you that unites the party behind what will be his candidacy.
I know this is a hard thing to consider...but in the interest of this nation I ask that you prayerfully consider it and stand up and unite the party so we can win in November.
And then work with Mr. Trump to implement all of those good things that both of your candidacies represent, and then trust in God to turn the tide.
I know He will...I know that if the policies set forth are implemented, He will help us turn this nation around, and there is the very strong possibility that we will have 16 years of strong American leadership to do so. You would, and need to figure into those 16 years senator Cruz. I believe this is the strongest path for you to do so.
Sincerely, and as a fellow American and brother in Christ,
Jeff Head
Idaho, USA
Thank goodness Senator Cruz is not gutless and will not pander to this nonsense.
He WILL win on the 2nd ballot. Trump is NOT capable of defeating Hillary Clinton in November. It simply is not possible.
DO NOT KID YOURSELF.
HE WILL LOSE.
Need to send the same letter to Kasich. Nothing but a freakin GOPe enabler.
Did you write a letter to Kasich as well? He’s been mathematically out of it for weeks now.
You politicians taking donations from special interests have given China the means to destroy the U.S. economically and China has.
And with TPP you will move any remaining industry to China and flood the U.S. with immigrants (trade in services).
Hey , Go back to Canada you don't tell me nor any American what to do.
You don't fool me with your phony conservative preaher act.I'm an American and I am for freedom truth justice and the American way things you foreign immigrants have no idea about since all you do is lie anyway.
Go Trump!
Good letter Jeff. I hope you fixed the typos.
Problem is, being from New York, is Trump not the east coast establishment candidate? So how could a contested convention be worse than that?
Well said.
It’s time to unite and put our efforts behind Donald Trump and concentrate on defeating the probably Rat candidate Hillary.
A difficult letter to write, Jeff Head, when you so greatly support what you hear from Senator Cruz— his agenda.
(Though I am amazed you are not of the opinion that Cruz is a not too subtle tool for the globalist establishment in Washington and internationalists on Wall Street, and with a wife willing to serve as an associate to the CFR paper cracking the door open for a North American ‘Community’ (UNION), and making it sound like Julie Andrews singing the “Sound of Music”.)
I am grateful for your objectivity on the math, and your courage to have at least heard, read and come to appreciate the TRUMP agenda and mostly his RESOLVE and powerful addresses on American security, jobs and growth and regulations, treasonous foreign trade policies and our endless foreign enemy agreements, our current Middle East infiltration and “Refugee Policy” , and our nasty deal making between DC and the globalists.
I agree Cruz should not be a spoiler in these dangerous times. It is every day coming closer to life and death for American citizens should Cruz vicariously promote those dangers by hurting TRUMP and helping Hillary Clinton.
The enemy is in the gate. We need TRUMP.
Nice letter.
Whatever concerns he may have had for the country and the citizens seem to have taken a back seat to his ambition.
He has become a tool of the GOPe to block the citizens from retaining the rule of law and our country.
The main purpose of the GOPe is to prevent the citizens from stopping The Cheap Labor Express and Ted is now helping them achieve that.
Cruz doing his “victory dance” over voterless Colorado, Wyoming, and North Dakota was both stupid and disgusting. For years I served & fought overseas as a US Army combat Infantryman. I’d be livid if I was one of my military brothers or sisters from Colorado, Wyoming, or North Dakota.
So go do your victory dance & celebrate Ted, because those serving in the US military from these states who protect your backside every day were denied the right to vote.
Thanks, Jeff...but if DT does not get a majority, then Ted can win at the convention...why don’t we let that happen? If DT gets a majority before the convention, then fine, and he wins on the first ballot...THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK
Jeff, we differ regarding our views of Cruz, however as someone who was supporting Cruz long before Trump ever got into the race, I say this sincerely:
IF somehow, some way, it had been possible for Senator Cruz to bring YOU into his campaign, instead of that maniac Glenn Beck, I am convinced that you would have exerted a far more positive influence on him, on his campaign staff, and that he would be in a far different place than he finds himself today. It was the ascendancy of Beck that marked the beginning of the end for the Cruz campaign.
Whether Senator Cruz will take your advice remains to be seen, I hope he reads it.
Nice thoughts Jeff. I appreciate the tone and I agree with you.
I started out this political season telling a person that I wouldn’t even read Trump’s platform because I couldn’t see myself ever supporting him.
Trump announced, and I liked some of what I saw. A few weeks later, I found myself deciding to keep the door open for him. I wanted folks to feel comfortable at least listening to him.
As time went by, Trump surprised me again and again. His platform was solid. He was attracting a lot of support. He had all the things I wanted. I decided to support him.
At this point I realized a lot of people liked Ted, and I thought highly of him too. I suggested the ticket Trump/Cruz and was happy to do so. I wasn’t the only person to do so, or even the first. It seemed like a good fit.
I envisioned Trump for 4 or 8, and Ted for another 4 or 8. I thought we could get a good 16 years out of it. The nation would surely be blessed.
And then it started. The talk of Trump being a Leftist, and Ted being almost perfect. Both started to grate on me. I looked into Ted’s background and wasn’t favorably impressed. I didn’t see him as a Conservative’s Conservative.
I won’t go into the reasons now. It’s pointless.
All I can say at this point, is that after watching Ted allow himself to become the Great White Hope for the RNC/GOPe, I can not longer support Ted for anything.
I appreciate the fact you didn’t suggest Ted be the vice-president. You may have wanted to. I think Ted’s supporters will also.
I don’t. I do not consider Ted to be one with me opposed to the GOPe. He has destroyed all the respect I had for him.
If not the V.P. slot, I had hoped he would be a SCOTUS appointee. I no longer support that either.
This is not the position I had hoped to find myself in at this time. It actually saddens me to have observed what I have.
At any rate, thanks for your thoughts and effort on this.
I think you did a good job.
I have supported Ted Cruz for a good while and will continue to do so.
That said, I would be more receptive to Trump if he could just say that in past years he did what he had to do and became what he had to become when he was supporting Democrats...because he was, after all, a business guy swimming in the very liberal democrat dominated waters of the Media and NY City. Simply doing what he had to do to win and get what he wanted. That, in reality, however, he was being completely fake back then in order to navigate in those treacherous waters...laughing at them (the Libs) behind their backs all the time. And, that now that he is running for office his true opinions and feelings are what we are seeing...and not just another version of becoming and doing what he thinks he has to do to win and get what he wants.
Asking Conservatives to believe his opinions have “evolved” is just too much of a stretch for me.
That said, should he get the nomination, I will vote for him. Getting a proverbial “pig-in-a-poke” at least leaves open the chance that once in office he will actually prove to mostly be conservative...which is a far better choice than going for someone you know is corrupt to the core and who without a doubt will do and stand for everything that enslaves the American people to big government.
If Ted Cruz truly cared for his country, this is exactly what he would do.
If he cares for himself more than his country, he will follow the path you warned him against.
Time will reveal his true priority: country or self.
I admire your effort here. Let’s see what happens.
My guess is that Ted prefers the TV face time and establishment money to your reason.
...that and Ted is probably hoping for a Hillary win and status quo in Washington D.C. He is part of the oligarchy now after all, having paid his dues to the money-masters.