Posted on 04/16/2016 7:10:52 AM PDT by bray
Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
Conservatism seems to been driven off the tracks by the Punditocracy. In the old days of the movement character and transparency was every bit as important as policy matters. How can you be a free country when your leaders are hiding everything from you and shading the truth? If they will hide the truth about little issues who says they will not hide it from big ones?
We have two choices now and in reality the election is over and Trump has won it is just by how much and is it enough to overcome the establishment, but it is still two men. In July when we had seventeen candidates and Jeb was the overwhelming favorite with Walker right behind, I predicted Trump and Cruz due to Trump’s wall and Cruz’s ground game. At that time I suggested they should be a team with Trump President and Cruz VP for four years while he was trained in executive skills. I was wrong.
My hesitation at the time with Ted was his question of being a Natural Born Canadian and Heidi Cruz working for Goldman Sachs and making $800K/yr. Both of those are still a problem if not much larger and there has been so much more piled on top without being in the least bit transparent. His campaign makes the old Clinton war room seem open and airy. If you dare ax the most basic question you get hit with a hammer and demeaned in the vilest attacks, but enough about his supporters.
I have no idea what the framers of this Country had in mind when they decided to have Presidents born in America or by military families stationed overseas, but it seems a good idea you be born here. That said, the troubling part of the birther issue is his refusal to be transparent. Why does he seal all of his birth records and immigration documents to keep his citizenship hidden? Lay everything on the table and get it behind you rather than covering it up like Benghazi, this makes no sense.
Goldman Sachs is the bigger issue of the two and lends itself to his lack of character which has revealed itself over and over. If you have a company supporting your family which is the author of ever bad economic policy in America, how can you claim to be a defender of Conservatism? Nobody is asking you to take a vow of poverty and quite the opposite, but this is profiting on all of those years in the Bush Administration writing all of those free trade agreements. Free for the other Countries while putting chains on America. Goldman Sachs is the very last bank any Conservative would work for if they were who they say they are. How would he balance her making over a million a year if he were President or VP if he had to rule against them and for America?
Then there is the campaign, from Iowa to Colorado there is a pattern of behavior that is very troubling for a Christian Conservative. Whether we like it or not, Christians are held to a higher standard which none of us can attain, but at least make an attempt. He has a habit of taking the shortcut and then blaming someone else for his decision. The buck never stops at his desk and that is a problem.
Whenever he has an issue where he is obviously lying like claiming Carson was dropping out in Iowa, he claims ignorance while saying he is the smartest man in the room. The one he really cannot deny or explain is the half a million his Pac gave to the Carley Pac. Now he will claim he cannot communicate with his PAC and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn you may want to jump off. How was his campaign manager able to buy the partially nude picture of Trump’s wife and turn that over the PAC if there is not communication?
Why would any campaign which is continually short on cash give a rival campaign running for the same office and roughly the same polling position be given such a large sum of money? If there is any explanation give it, since the appearance is this was hush money to cover-up an affair with Carley’s campaign manager.
In the old days of Conservatism, the appearance of corruption was corruption however today it is until proven beyond a shadow of a doubt so you stall. The same old Carvile tactic. Why did the PAC give a half million and what did Carley get for that? Both PACs should tell the truth if either one of them is honest.
Then we move to Whisky Creek and Colorado with his cozy relationship with the establishment. I remember when Conservatives would vomit if they were supported by Linseed Graham, John InSain, Jeb, Georgie Will, Kraut, National Review, WaPo, Reid and the entire GOP establishment but they ignore that to promote their version of conservatism. These people are the problem and will only make our issues worse, yet they claim it will be different this time.
After Colorado when there was not a single vote cast with Cruz taking all of the delegates we heard rules, regulations and the need to educate yourselves. Having been in one of those GOP selection caucuses here is how they work. Everyone knows exactly who they are voting for before they arrive since they have been given slates of names who to vote for of which delegates will vote for Cruz.
The ones who arrive with an open mind or intend on voting for someone else are outvoted by the slate. You vote down the slate so every chosen delegate gets the same overwhelming votes, it is pure corruption. It is all carefully choreographed and has absolutely nothing to do with the people they supposedly represent, only the kingmakers who demand their voices heard.
The one I was at was ambushed by the Paulbots who got around half the delegates even though he received 4% of the Primary vote. These charades are more like the Soviet Union than America. You can bet none of those slate delegates are under seventy or been with the Party less than forty years.
Cruz of course comes out of the Colorado fiasco blaming someone else as it is never his fault. In reality his team organized all of those slates and made sure of the outcome days before they met. You can claim they had the better ground game, but that way of selecting bound delegates has nothing to do with the voice of the people and more to do with the dictates of the Party.
There is a pattern with Ted Cruz which is very disturbing. He continually will take the shortcut on the truth and openness and then blame someone else after he gets caught. It seems we have had enough politicians who fit that mold and we really do not need more of them and especially as President. If we are going to turn America around we need to begin with honor and transparency which is lacking with Ted. This is not an indictment on Cruz as much as the conservative establishment, but some questions need open answers and apparently never will. It is time for a new direction for Conservatism, it is time to Trump the entire District of Corruption.
Pray America wakes
That’ll leave a mark!!!
(It’s his last name)
No..like Cruz!!!!
Trump says some good things. He also says a lot of things that should scare the hell out of conservatives.
Many of us question Trump’s commitment to small government, individual freedom, and the Constitution. It’s because of his support for Democrats and Democrat positions WHEN HE WAS IN HIS MID-FIFTIES, and age when most us have core principals that are well formed.
If Trump was the only option for conservatives this year, I might consider him - but there is a much better option in Ted Cruz.
The thing that worries me most about Trump and his supporters is their blind passion to destroy Cruz - a good man who has a lifelong commitment to the things conservatives believe in. There is no need to destroy Cruz, if Trump is truly a conservative. Cruz could become Trump’s VP, or at least a steadfast conservative voice in the Senate that could could help push Trump’s conservative agenda - if Trump sticks to his promises.
So why is it so important for Trump to destroy Cruz? It’s because Cruz, a true conservative, offers such a bright contrast to “nationalist” Trump. Being a “nationalist” allows Trump to offer big government solutions while still claiming to be for the constitution and middle class Americans.
I always have problem believing rich people who claim to be for the little guy. Trump appears to be next in line of a series of rich political reformers from NYC - the Roosevelts, the Rockefellers, and Bloomberg. Conservatives have good reason to be cautious about Trump given his chameleon-like political history.
No...
They could draw crowds.
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/mar/20/jim-moore/sen-ted-cruz-has-been-iowa-four-times-his-tenure-r/
You mean big crowds like Obama?????
We voters in Texas were hoping that would be the case!!!
I was talking about his speech on the senate floor where he said McConnel lied to him when he asked about Ex-im bank reauthorization.
So you look at one person and say, in effect, ‘You all’?
Does this individual have multiple personalities?
If the term has a regionalized usage in TX, that’s your affair. Just don’t ask the Deep South to follow suit.
It was a loan, buckonious— a loan.
Ya’ think maybe TRUMP couldn’t pay it back, or something? LOL!
Because you inherited squat doesn’t mean that a million in a loan from dad, in NYC, meant much. It just didn’t. Sorry.
Dad was small potatoes in Queens. Donald J. was scrapping with the hounds of NYC, who thought him an outsider.
Beat that, or grouse about it.
Viva Cristo Rey
I don't see a massive Puritan uprising up to resist Barry destroying their First Amendment freedom of religion although many a dollar is made shilling about threats to the Second Amendment, do you?
Regards
Both Cruz and Kasich no longer talk about issues, or how they would solve any problems. Cruz, Kasich, and their supporters seem to have one message: Anything against Trump. Not a surprise to me both have lost the voters.
“Shamu the killer whale fills stadiums at Sea world. Is he eligible to be President?”
Okay, okay, I give up on logic and common sense. You win. Find a candidate who cannot gather a crowd and vote him in. Good luck.
Well, if you check the timeline, Trump only goes after those who attack him first. For quite a while, because they were seemingly getting along, many of us assumed there may be a Trump/Cruz VP alliance. (much to my dismay)
Any other high position (Supreme Court) would have been great, until Cruz screwed that up.
Trump is destroying Cruz because of Cruz's attacks.
My initial and main objection to Cruz was that he's a Cubanadian.
No, actually....that is more aptly Donald Trump's role...the proverbial spoiler/turd in the punchbowl, the pee in the Wheaties, the usurper "from within" the party that he has demeaned, accused and run against for most of his liberal life until that "magical year" 2012.
Sorry ....his small potatoes were 2-3 hundred million!!!
Frederick Christ Trump
October 11, 1905
Woodhaven, New York, U.S.
Died
June 25, 1999 (aged 93)
New Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Founder of Elizabeth Trump & Son Co.
Net worth
Increase $250–$300 million (1999)
Spouse(s)
Mary Anne MacLeod
or that he was naturalized when his father became a US
Citizen, in order to get the passport.
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Cruz went to England in 1986 with a high school class trip.
Thus he would have had to have a passport back then.
This election is not about liberal/conservative. It is about the survival of the nation. Nation state vrs globalism.
The only issues that matters this election cycle is immigration. If we do not fix our illegals problem in the next four years we will lose the country to the globalists. Give the Marxists Rats millions and millions of new voters and you can kiss American conservationism good-bye, our Constitution will be voided and thrown on the ash heap of history.
Only Trump will solve the problem, Lying Ted Cruz is a globalist, married to a globalist and funded by globalists.
Just like Cruz, he is not.
However (just like most FReepers) Trump is.
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