Posted on 01/18/2016 9:47:17 AM PST by Starman417
I love Donald Trump. For all of his faults, he has done this nation an extraordinary service that it seems no other politician has been able to do for a quarter century. He put the single, most important issue facing our nation at the top of the heap in terms of what voters are concerned with: Immigration. Illegal immigration is literally undermining our nation, and without control of our borders there is simply no way our country will survive as a constitutional republic.
That love, I suppose, is really more appreciation. While I thank Trump to the high heavens for his contribution to this race, I don't plan on voting for him. I'm voting for Ted Cruz.
Trump has a certain unabashed style, a presence, a reputation and an unrestrained manner that has allowed him to become not only a spectacularly successful businessman, but a media star. As PT Barnum is said to have said: "There's no such thing as bad publicity". Those things worked to Trump's advantage getting immigration on the agenda and putting him at the top of the heap right now in the GOP race.
But none of that should suggest that he should be President. Ask a  Trumpian what they like about Trump and you'll usually get something like "He gets things done". That's true, but like an iceberg, where 90% of what's important is unseen, it's how Trump "gets things done" that's a problem for those who value the Constitution. And that's exactly where Ted Cruz excels.
There are big differences between Ted and Trump, and once you get past the issue of immigration, where both want to build a wall from San Diego to Brownsville, TX, those differences become crystal clear. Here are a few important ones:
4th AmendmentOne of the key elements of a limited government is the personal property rights of the nation's citizens. You can't have an American dream if the government can simply come along and take your stuff or let someone else do so. The 4th Amendment keeps the government from taking a citizen's property for anything other than a public use. Or at least it did until Kelo v. New London in 2005. In that case the Supreme Court decided that the government could take property from a group of citizens and give it to a private company, with no public use involved. So, according to Kelo, if a citizen was sufficiently friendly to politicians in a particular area, they could use that friendship to take the property of someone else… and do it legally.
Donald Trump not only agreed with the Kelo decision, but he did so enthusiastically. In addition, and this does not bode well for limited government, Donald Trump had tried on numerous occasions to do the same thing that Pfizer did in Kelo. Ted Cruz vociferously disagreed with Kelo and would appoint Supreme Court justices who actually understand what the 4th Amendment says.
ObamacareDonald Trump, while correctly characterizing Obamacare as a disaster, talks glowingly of the dysfunctional single payer systems in Canada and Scotland. Indeed a decade ago he advocated for a single payer system here in the US. In his most recent healthcare proposal, while he advocates repealing Obamacare, it’s not free markets he offers as the solution, but rather the opaque "something terrific" that ensures every American who wants health coverage can get it. He says that government will provide healthcare for those who can't afford it, and according to Forbes magazine, that "plan" could essentially only function with government cost controls in the first place.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, has been a staunch opponent of Obamacare in the Senate, even going so far as to shut down the government in 2013 in an attempt to overturn it. And did so very much against the wishes of the spineless GOP leadership. More than that, Cruz wants to harness free markets to solve the problem of healthcare.
10th AmendmentAnd this one may be the single most important difference between the two candidates and the most important determinant as to who to pull the lever for. The 10th Amendment is at the core of America's limited government and the prosperity it has engendered. It states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Donald Trump is not today, nor ever has been an advocate for limited government. From getting into bed with local governments for tax breaks to leveraging government gambling licenses against creditors to encouraging local governments to use eminent domain against opponents, Donald Trump has never shied away from using government intimidation to further his interests. A President Trump would likely pay as little attention to the 10th Amendment as President Obama has.  There's a reason unions and 20% of Democrats are considering supporting Donald Trump, and it's not because he's a small government guy...
Ted Cruz, however, is a staunch defender of the 10th Amendment and an advocate for dramatically cutting government regulations.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Starman....you have a long history of only posting a thread.....and never commenting. This is a sign of a post and run blog pimp.
What are trumpees thinking? Answer: They aren’t.
Ok Vince.
All true.
I gave up on this guy.. never got a single word out of him.
It’s unlikely he’s ever read a single comment here.
You can’t fix stupid. Go vote Cruz.
You love one, but you’ll vote for another, that’s a bit like, I Love my wife but I’m going to bed with the slut down the street.
I would never vote for a sneaky Canadian carpetbagger poser.
From Merriam-Webster the origin of TRUMP is the word TRIUMPH. Go Trump, you’ve got my vote.
“What are trumpees thinking? Answer: They aren’t.”
Now that’s the level thought provoking discussion this site has been known for. At least until recently.
“That love, I suppose, is really more appreciation. While I thank Trump to the high heavens for his contribution to this race, I don’t plan on voting for him. I’m voting for Ted Cruz.”
So did the author not bother to pontificate why Cruz could not do what Trump did starting last summer?
Hey thanks for having your name dragged through the dirt, being internationally condemned and threatened, risking your personal fortune, taking care of all of the well-funded GOPe candidates, and kicking the media’s butt, and putting the fear of the almighty in Hillary...
But I’m voting for the guy that didn’t do any of that?
Here we go, another hit piece for the Trump Supporters.
This is a sign of a post and run blog pimp.
I agree with the article. Trump is not and never has been a conservative. Actually, I take that back. I do not know what he truly believes—it keeps changing. He says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear. I am not willing to take a chance that his latest statements of his beliefs is how he will govern as president, an office that has unfortunately become too powerful.
I expect to get really flamed :-)
Hey Cruzer why so bitter?
Do you ever notice that he says that HE will bring America back? Not one word about us doing it?
Ronald Reagan encouraged the American people by getting out of the way so that WE could make America great again. And we did.
Flame on. I got more where that came from.
Has a write-in candidate ever won the US presidency?
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