I see the Donald as flawed, but not as flawed as you see him. But I see some good in him as well that I don't see in anyone else running.
His flaws are certainly mostly in the areas of pride. And it is not at all a good flaw to have in regard to one's immortal soul. I found it amusing how he said he was proud to be a Christian for example. It did not make me angry though, just amused--being that the point of being Christian is to accept God's grace with humility.
Another flaw that is obvious is he gets childish with losing his temper...to be honest so do a lot of us, but he is one of those that doesn't hide his outbursts when things don't go his way.
Trump is not really a conservative the way Cruz is. He does not come as someone with a defined ideology. Also unlike Cruz, his flaws are obvious. The outside of the cup is not clean as it were.
Up until the incident in Chicago, I was going to vote Cruz in the primary. But now I am certainly going to vote for Trump (in regard to the general election I will vote whomever the nominee is--even if its Genghis Khan). When violent thugs attacked people trying to go to his rally I watched with disgust the media making the violence about Trump and his followers...I did not expect and I was appalled and shocked to watch Cruz, after acknowledging the thugs were in the wrong blame Trump in part. That floored me, and I had to abandon my support of Cruz.
Jesus tells a parable about a man on the dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho, who was robbed beaten and left almost dead. Some very upstanding citizens came by, people proud of their standing in the community, and did not help the man because it was easier to just walk on past. But one of those highly despised Samaritans came by and went through a lot of trouble and expense to help the man and put him up in a hotel and paid his bill.
Cruz showed me which kind of man he was.
I have looked into Trump's past. Yeah I see a lot of ego. I see some loose living. And many vices...but he is the kind that stops for the man. And that to me is all the difference.
You describe Cruz’ reaction to the incident at the Trump rally in Chicago as a turning point. I catalog for you the statements of Donald Trump which justify the criticism made by Ted Cruz. Against all of these statements which are deplorable, consider that Ted Cruz made a single statement.. Why are so many people so ready to excuse Donald Trump’s multiple statements condoning and even encouraging violence but condemn Cruz for a single statement deploring violence and the encouragement of violence?
Here are Trump’s thoughtless statements encouraging violence:
1.Trump, who encourages his supporters to surround and shout down protesters with chants of “USA,” has openly pined for “the old days,” when, he says, noisy demonstrators would be carried out of a political rally on stretchers.
2.“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he told a Las Vegas casino rally crowd last month when one protester was ejected.
3.As protesters have been led away by police or security, Trump has said he wishes he could punch them in the face, or that in the old days protesters went out on a stretcher, or that someone should “knock the crap out of them” and that he would pay legal fees for someone who did.
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470375065/a-campaign-on-the-brink-donald-trump-and-the-intersection-of-outrage-and-violenc and
4. “The audience hit back and that’s what we need a little bit more of.”
5.”Part of the problem ... is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.”
6. the candidate bemoaned the fact that there were no longer “consequences” to protesting and insisted the “country has to toughen up.”
7.“You know, part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore, right?”
8.”In the good old days this doesn’t happen because they used to treat them very, very rough.”
9.“They used to treat them very, very rough, and when they protested once, they would not do it again so easily,” he said, before lamenting “we’ve become weak.”
10.”Try not to hurt him. If you do, I’ll defend you in court, don’t worry about it.”
11.”If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously.” He again promised to pay for any legal fees associated with an assault.
12.After a Black Lives Matter activist was kicked, punched and, he said, called the N-word at a campaign event in Birmingham, Alabama, in November, Trump expressed his approval.
“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,”
13.”I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will.”
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#tjGh.egBFiqY