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I’m not demeaning your want of a true conservative to vote for. And, my personal choice BTW IS Cruz. I can only relate to you what I have seen and know with respect to Cruz and his feelings on Trump.

It boils down to this. As long as Cruz isn’t worried about Trump, I am not, either. Further, there have been recent reports that Cruz has said Trump’s candidacy has been good for him. How can you argue with that?

So, while my end game hopes for a Cruz win, I am not about to fall prey to this Trump hatred and constant hand-wringing about if he is or isn’t a conservative and “lordy me, what are we to do about it.”

We have enough deranged nuts (not you, BTW) on this forum who try daily to slip in some Trump hatred thread that are mainly vile, divisive and diversionary - most without some real other options, and when they don’t get their way, they say “you’re voting for Hillary, then.” Rubbish.

The willingness of some Conservatives, who feel a need to assert some form of academic credentials, to label other Conservatives, who express themselves in a more common vernacular, as "populists," has long been an impediment to all of us working together against those who seek to deconstruct the American heritage.

I have been seeking a way to fight what is, in my experience, a false & contrived dichotomy, for over half a century. It hurts us in so many ways--including preventing those with similar philosophies, patriotism & American roots, from actually getting things done in Washington.

I hesitate to list specific instances, because those with the priorities of one faction, at any one time, will rush in to defend their avoidance of another faction's priorities--even though they are based in large measure on kindred values--by denouncing some aspect in that other factions approach. But I will give an example of what happens when we do come together.

Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980 was based on a coming together of the Goldwater Conservatives in the Republican Party & the Reagan Democrats (who were basically those Democrats who had supported George Wallace in 1968 & 1972. William Rusher, the publisher of National Review, but more pragmatic than the founder, Bill Bucley, wrote a book in the mid-1970s, on the potential for that coming together, which correctly predicted the dynamics that followed.

We need to understand that different styles, different emphases, different support groups, must not be allowed to make us fail to recognize opportunities to work together to take America back from those who are destroying it.

The willingness of some Conservatives, who feel a need to assert some form of academic credentials, to label other Conservatives, who express themselves in a more common vernacular, as "populists," has long been an impediment to all of us working together against those who seek to deconstruct the American heritage.

I have been seeking a way to fight what is, in my experience, a false & contrived dichotomy, for over half a century. It hurts us in so many ways--including preventing those with similar philosophies, patriotism & American roots, from actually getting things done in Washington.

I hesitate to list specific instances, because those with the priorities of one faction, at any one time, will rush in to defend their avoidance of another faction's priorities--even though they are based in large measure on kindred values--by denouncing some aspect in that other factions approach. But I will give an example of what happens when we do come together.

Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980 was based on a coming together of the Goldwater Conservatives in the Republican Party & the Reagan Democrats (who were basically those Democrats who had supported George Wallace in 1968 & 1972. William Rusher, the publisher of National Review, but more pragmatic than the founder, Bill Bucley, wrote a book in the mid-1970s, on the potential for that coming together, which correctly predicted the dynamics that followed.

We need to understand that different styles, different emphases, different support groups, must not be allowed to make us fail to recognize opportunities to work together to take America back from those who are destroying an American future.