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This is a example of exactly what I have come to realize about Cruz supporters. They refuse to accept that the Cruz family is deserving of any scrutiny, and if an issue comes up they are angry.

The wife of a president is an intimate part of his life, and can impact his mental health.

I don’t think people should be mean about it, but the presidency is a demanding job, and we have a right to know the full dynamics of a potential president’s family.

We wanted a full vetting of Obama, and we want a full vetting of Ted.

If our nation should have a national emergency, is it or is it not something we should know if a candidate’s wife has episodes of severe depression? Should we know if he might have a very bad situation in his private life that comes up from time to time.

When I first heard of this, I felt bad for Heidi. That doesn’t mean that we should not ever discuss it and know what the full dynamics of this are.

Everything’s on the table with a presidential contender.

If that was Heidi’s only incident with depression, then tell us and we’ll move on.

If it’s an ongoing condition we should know.

I hope it was a one time only thing. I personally wish the Cruz family only good things.

We should vet the candidates wives. We know that Melania is from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, one of the 6 republics forming the post-World War II country of Yugoslavia.

This is a country that was heavily steeped in socialism, communism and relationships with the Soviet Union.

The Yugoslav government allied with the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin and early on in the Cold War shot down two American airplanes flying in Yugoslav airspace on 9 and 19 August 1946.

Melania was born there and lived there for 26 years. I wonder if she could pass a security clearance? As Trump fans know, we need to be extremely suspicious of immigrants. Melania could be a Russian sleeper agent. Is it worth risking our national security when there’s a chance that we could be letting a spy into the very heart of the White House close to the nuclear codes? At least we know Heidi is all-American with no nefarious ties to foreign countries connected to the Russians.

The problem is that when we put Senator Cruz under a microscope, his supporters become agitated, angry and outright hostile with vitriol. Yet, they think it no hypocrisy of placing Donal Trump, or any other candidate, under painfully tedious scrutiny. They cut down with just as sharp a scythe as anything Trump’s supporters might ever bring into the battle.

More to the point is that Senator Cruz is presented to us as a blameless saint, while Donald Trump is cast as though he were Satan’s child.

We are regularly lectured on how Trump’s gradual conversion to conservative views is a pretentious and self-serving game of deceit. His supporters are labeled as simpletons, mental midgets, liberal tools, fools, disingenuous hypocrites and unbelievably naive.

Trump supporters are told that Donald is a consummate liar, etc ...

All these caustic yet spurious attributes they base on a time line of Donald Trump’s life and evolving opinions of divers subjects - but, their bias begs the question: how much time must pass to be convincing of one’s sincerity? 20 years? 15 years? 10 years? 5 years? 2 years?

To those who decide upon some arbitrarily vague number of years, which amazingly coincides with their own candidate’s terms, I say this:

If I hold to a conservative position after 20 years, and it is the same as I held after 10 years, or 5 years or even 1 year ... was it any less sincere or conservative after one year than it is after twenty? Did its strength somehow not exist in fullness at the one than at the other? If some life changing event altered my point of view, then am I somehow less sincere at its beginning than another twenty years down the road?

Was Saul not to be believed after his conversion until some unknowable number of years passed? Who gives any of you political junkies the absolute right to set out what is the measure of another man’s conversion? Are you so bold to judge what is in a man’s heart?

You desire to not allow Mr. trump to prove his merit, but I say he has already proven the most important conservative principal that may ever exist - a love for his country. Is that not first and foremost what defines conservatism at its core? Is that not the very starting point upon which all else must begin? Is that not the foundation upon which every other conservative principle must find its footing?

The man has well enough demonstrated his flaws - as history proves those with great ambition always possess in abundance ... And what of King David - a man after God’s Heart, who even after committing adultery and murder still required that another force him to see his sin in the image of a slain lamb? He repented, and yet the sword never left his family, as such was a demonstration of both God’s justice and His mercy.

And what of Sampson? Did he not, in his pride, give himself to fleshly desires, even to the loss of his strength and sight? Yet, even in the humiliation of his blindness and enslavement, he turned to God, asking but for one last moment of strength so to bring down the temple upon God’s enemies - and upon himself as well.

And King Nebuchadnezzar, made to a crawling wild beast, to eat the grasses of the field ... Still he returned to God.

Great men have great faults, commit great sins; but then they also possess the God-given capacity to do great deeds when put to the test - and such is the grace most befitting their purpose ... For such men were created to serve God’s purpose in the time of need.

WE are faced with a most perilous period in our relatively young history - a time of great evil, where the pall of endless darkness approaches to overshadow us, when enemies from all sides are striking at the gate - nay, even upon our door step ... We have become a nation without direction ... And yet their may be a glimmer of hope in a man, flawed and prideful, yet one within whom God has instilled a great love of country, a sense of fairness for the working man, a determination to rise up above our enemies and our many problems, and a vision to return us back to the path we so foolishly wandered away from. Great men are raised up for greater tasks. Providence does still desire our return to the light. In our distress, like the “stiff-necked Jews,” we sometimes need a long learning curve - and sometimes true repentance requires many years in the desert before we see the light of the promised land ...

Greatness requires one to let go of their fears and to trust in God’s promise. We have such a man who is fearless, and who perhaps trusts more in God will than we may appreciate. He may not be the most humble of God’s creatures; but then God has often shown a propensity for using men to bring about the changes that HE desires ... The Lord’s ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts.

I cannot know who will eventually win this race - but I do know that, for although better or worse be our lot, God is still in charge.