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To: A Navy Vet; Georgia Girl 2

I would like to enter your conversation for a quick comment, if I could.

I supported Ted Cruz, to the point of donating to him when he declared last March. I thought Trump to be a clown when there was rumor of him declaring in late May, and I hoped that he wouldn’t. However, Trump won me over, and Cruz lost me for a variety of reasons.

That all said, I would vote for either of them, or any of the other 15 Republicans in the race, over any Dem - there is simply no question about that. I can look beyond the intra-family squabbles (and it DID get very immature, on all sides), and see the big picture that this country simply cannot afford another Socialist one-worlder; in fact, we have to go hard in the other direction, especially with debt reduction and how our kids are educated about this country, or we’re done.

My read on Cruz: well, I’m an attorney, though not a litigator. I can truly appreciate his brilliance and his many accomplishments in the courts. My feeling about his shortcomings (we ALL have them, no matter how accomplished) is that he’s just never lost anything of importance to him before. He didn’t - and still doesn’t - know how to accept that he didn’t win, especially given the extraordinary amount of time and effort he put into the campaign. He is also more geared to an academic style of debating than the more free-style street brawl type of debate that Trump is accustomed to being in and winning. Trump has about 25 years on Cruz, and it showed - he just out-strategized Cruz. Once Cruz didn’t win most of the South on Super Tuesday, I knew that it was over - and Cruz should have, as well. He’d have been very able to work out a fantastic deal at that point, and the Party would be thoroughly unified by this point. FYI, Trump is no intellectual slouch at all (how else do you turn a $1 million loan into a couple $billion before inheriting anything?), just not a bookworm type of intellect - his is a practical intellect.

I regret that the 2 of them got into such a bad squabble - Cruz would’ve made a great Veep for Trump, and would have not only been able to steer Trump a bit more to the Right, but also to prepare to succeed Trump and finish off the entitled class and the Socialists. Can you imagine 16 years of these 2 guys in charge? Oh, well, it simply wasn’t fated to be.

But now is the time to forget about our in-house squabble - it is over, and we all must concentrate upon defeating Hillary and the Dems. THEY are the domestic enemies that the Founders spoke of - they have been engaged in a counter-revolution against the principles and the nation that the Founders bequeathed to us. Let’s face that circular firing squad in the other direction.


23 posted on 05/13/2016 10:31:04 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

My take on Cruz is that among many other negatives he does not have the temperament or personal gravitas required for being a strong leader. He exudes arrogance and over zealous adherence to a cult like religion. He has accomplished basically nothing in his first term as senator. Cruz is simply not ready to be the leader of the free world. 75$ of the GOP voting base realized this.


35 posted on 05/13/2016 12:23:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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