[Agamemnon]

We know who he is; we have seen it for years. Trump will only get in trouble if he starts trying to be something he is not.

He's in trouble with a lot of people for what he is and what he's always been. We're not "liars" for calling him out on what he is and what he's always been.

To your credit, it seems that you have the honesty to admit Trump hasn't changed at all, and that he hasn't kidded you, even as all his other acolytes claim that he has somehow become Mr. Wonder Conservative practically over night.

Fact is what he is and has always been is going to come back to bite you and all his supporters in short order, and you'll remember what I am telling you today.

For now, the "image" thing Mr. GOPe Manafort promotes allows you to see what you want to see about him, and project whatever you want him to be on to him, because you have no evidence of core character other than his business expediencies over the years to inform you.

But with all you say you know who is, none of that seems to bother you. No, Cruz, the 97% consistent conservative bothers you.

Cruz bothers you because his consistency holds up a mirror to your own inconsistency. That is what makes you uncomfortable about Ted Cruz and makes a lot on this Board uncomfortable about themselves, and I understand that you all don't like that.

As far as the seemingly changing quality of posters, I've been around here long enough to have noticed that I never had to get into a discussion with a guy who finds surgically sculpted men pretending to be women to be attractive. Assuming you have daughters as I do, just rest assured that they won't have their right to female privacy protected in the bathroom spaces in Trump's Towers.

Funny thing is Target has already received >100,000 complaints for their stance on protecting that 1% of queers at the expense of the 99% normal and the boycott is coming. By contrast not enough Chinese super bankers that he brags all the time that he rents to in Trump Towers are complaining, so this allows him the freedom to cater to proclivities of the NYC Values perverts on his small scale.

"Mr. FreeRepublic" supports Trump. I know that. He's told me that personally on other threads. And I know he'll likely be as disappointed with Trump as you will be when he someday smash-mouths those very people who have elevated him.

If he wins the nomination he'll do it at a time when you will have nothing to say about it.

FReegards!

[exDemMom]

But with all you say you know who is, none of that seems to bother you. No, Cruz, the 97% consistent conservative bothers you.

Cruz bothers you because his consistency holds up a mirror to your own inconsistency. That is what makes you uncomfortable about Ted Cruz and makes a lot on this Board uncomfortable about themselves, and I understand that you all don't like that.

Cruz bothers me because he is a caricature. He has selected certain traits that he deems to be "conservative" and exaggerated them, played them up, to convince more emotionally driven voters that he really is conservative. On top of that, he expects conservatives to swoon over him solely because of his conservative persona, while he fails to demonstrate that he has any skills or experience that would actually qualify him for the job.

I do not like fakes. I grew up in CA during the hippy movement--believe me, I saw more than my fair share of phonies, and developed an intense dislike of them. That Cruz is pretending to be conservative by putting on an exaggerated veneer of the same conservative stereotypes that the media constantly mocks tells me that he has no real understanding of conservative values. Furthermore, his action in CO--crowing about a "win" that looks like cheating--does not fit the behavior of a man who is truly principled and conservative.

Right now, the media is mostly focused on taking out Trump, since he is the only real challenge to Clinton or Sanders, and threatens the political/media cabal. However, do not kid yourself that the media's current silence about Cruz will remain if Cruz should (God forbid) become the nominee. The media will crush him. Suddenly, his fake "principled conservatism" will be evidence that he wants to install an authoritarian theocracy. Since he never did deny the National Enquirer story about his alleged trysts, the media will trot that out, too--and they won't be inclined to cover up bimbo eruptions the way they did for Bill Clinton. The media will attack him hard, and he won't be able to deflect the attacks because he doesn't have Trump's skill with handling the media. And so on. Even if Cruz were genuine, he wouldn't have a chance.