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...
So if Trump wins the nomination will you be voting for Bernie or Shillary?
Thanks....appreciate the reply.
(You’d think they might at least throw in a few comments, from time to time, to be a little more discreet :)
And you drank the koolaid. So sad. Blind allegiance to a nothing burger, defending all Trump who is not a conservative, never has been, he says believe me and some do.
Versus one who knows the constitution (I don’t believe DT would pass a high school civics test), and has lived his life as a conservative with more knowledge of all facets of conservatism in one brain cell than DT has in his entire brain.
If trumpees didn’t completely trash Cruz about the silliest stuff and ever recognized one of DT’s faults or lies I would not be hostile.
But I am smiling.
I’m just the opposite.
He uses “I” as much, if not more than Obama.
I just think we are very fortunate with the choices we have in the primary . Trump, Cruze, Rubio, are all candidates I can get excited about in an election. I also like Carson, Carly and Cristy but am not as excited over them. If Huckabee Santorum or rand Paul were to win I could ignore the problems and vote for them. the only one I have a problem with is Jeb bush but if it was Hillary or him I would vote Jeb bush .
I hope who ever the nominee is that Everyone at free republic can Kiss and makeup because I think that if we don’t win this election that a lot of the Damage done by the Democrats putting political appointees in places like the justice department,the IRS and the military will start to do permanent damage to the institution on who the non appointed personnel get promoted. We have seen the Damage appointed person can do it is a lot worse when that appointed person has non appointed people cooperating with them.
Why do you expect to be flamed , Nimrod?
I wish you Trumpiacs, (as opposed to Trump supporters) would see the con he's manipulating you with.
Trump is NOT a conservative.
I guess you have decided to support a Conservative Imposter. Sorry he has hood winked you. Conservatives don’t get loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank and launder the money so they don’t have to make it public. Conservatives aren’t members of the Princeton/Harvard Elite Class. Conservatives don’t have a Wall Street Employee wife manipulating the campaign contributions. I hate to destroy the myth with facts, but Cruz is a Fraud.
Well, why not? This is exactly how Cruz dispenses with his duties as a ‘constitutionalist conservative’ senator. Don’t like TPP? Vote FOR fast track TPA & reduce the number of votes needed to pass it. Ditto Corker. Ditto immigration.
WTH? Opposite world.
The Cruz, Holier than thou, crowd, are up and posting.
How about commenting on the article instead of attacking the poster?
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.
You are so right fifedom.
GO TRUMP!
It looks like today is going to be another day of Trump hit pieces and nasty comments about us, backed up by nothing. A lot of little people like the little man they support.
Maybe I can make it through the day without engaging them. Maybe :)
Just remember it’s a sign of their candidate’s weakness...and keep in mind how happy Trump supporters are that our candidate is the HISTORIC GOP FRONTRUNNER, for a reason :)
:)
how true, sadly.
“Blind allegiance to a nothing burger, defending all Trump who is not a conservative, never has been, he says believe me and some do.”
If Trump is all of this....then why the hell did Ted Cruz make a deal with him instead of attacking him last summer?
Why would the most conservative person to ever run for office, have a agreement with a hard leftist liberal for the purposes of destroying the other candidates and causing Trump to rise to the top?
You have a choice:
* Either Trump is not those things.
* Or Cruz has s*itty judgement.
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