Posted on 01/17/2016 6:38:50 AM PST by Kaslin
These past two weeks a most disingenuous campaign was waged by Donald Trump.
Unable to master the mystery of the Iowa Caucus voter, he and his surrogates engaged in flat out dishonesty. (Not a trait becoming for a person applying for the job as public servant one.)
Mr. Trump began raising the question of Senator Ted Cruz's legitimacy for office based on the same lame conspiratorial garbage that he attempted to press against Obama. And while Obama produced what no one has been able to verify as an actual birth certificate--arguing he was in fact born in America--Mr. Cruz has taken a different path.
Mr. Trump was joined by the always-ready-to-rumble Ann Coulter who went even further in attempting to discredit the legitimacy of Senator Cruz as an American citizen, eligible to run for and serve as President of the United States.
Later in the week even talk radio icons--some of whom are colleagues of mine at Salem Media Group--decided they would also echo the libelous and false claim that Ted Cruz is in some way less qualified to run for President than others.
This all came to the fore of course as the Republican debate in South Carolina ran its course and the moderators decided to take a whack at Mr. Cruz personally. All of them, should've steered far clear of the issue, but logic and rational thought aren't strengths for the supporters of Donald Trump, nor the supporters of the GOP establishment.
Given that Dr. Alan Dershowitz--the law professor that instructed both President's Barack Obama and Senator Ted Cruz--has stated on multiple occasions that Ted Cruz is in the top ranks of any law school students he ever instructed (and that President Barack Obama was middle of the pack--at best), you would think that Constitutional hacks like talk show hosts, businessmen, and a woman that reads about the constitution on her lexis-nexus searches would no better.
But no... They'd rather foolishly wade into the water against a man who has won five cases in the United States Supreme Court.
Given that ninety percent of lawyers will never even grace the premises of the Supreme Court much less even argue a case before it, much less win one, Senator Cruz's track record at the highest level of legal argument is unassailable.
There's also one other thing these "Trumpsters" do not seem to grasp: Ted Cruz is really smart.
His statement about Trump's values stemming from the social and moral cess-pool that is Manhattan was not only not misplaced, but effectively strategic in solidifying the fact that Ted Cruz has a moral center, and one that to this date in his public life has not been able to be corrupted. This bothers op-ed writers who get outed for shacking up with over-the-hill Fox News reporters, and internet news aggregators. And it irritates men who consistently leave the wife they are married to, to be with a younger woman they've begun sleeping with.
As a lover of the greatest city on earth, and as someone who would not wish to live anywhere else, I--like Ted Cruz--can see the beauty of this city and be repulsed by the moral temperature of the electorate that puts a socialist to the left of Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama into the office of Mayor.
Governor Cuomo also lost all his moral high ground on the matter when he outright said in 2013 that pro-life, pro-family, conservatives are not welcomed in his state.
Senator Cruz sees it for what it is, and calls it like it is.
Trump is an immoral pragmatist that only considers what could be. He seldom asks the question, what "should" be.
Therein lies the problem. If the GOP base believes that character counts for something, then Donald Trump may have assisted all of us in this election, but he can not be the nominee.
And when (not if but when) he loses Iowa--and loses it BIG--as he will--then his air of invincibility will be gone.
Donald Trump by all accounts, loves his country, and truly does want to make America great again. But part of her greatness eludes him, and that is due to the fact that in order to understand why America has been great is to admit that she has also been good. And to understand that is to make a moral judgment.
Ted Cruz is a man of good morals. Donald Trump is a man who makes good deals (at least for himself.)
So when Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, and some of my colleagues behind the microphone are willing to look the other way on a host of issues just so they get their guy elected, they are acting no different than the idealogical left.
I have not and refuse to endorse a GOP candidate in the primary, the man I hope would do the best, appears to be heading for an earlier exit than I had hoped for.
But my conscience drives me to put all pretense aside to say the treatment of Ted Cruz by Donald Trump and his minions in recent weeks (all based on the growing realization that they will lose Iowa in big fashion) is unbecoming, it is beneath them, and for the good of our nation and her future it is something they should set aside.
Because while dishonesty is a common value in New York elected officials, it has no place in the grassroots fight for the soul of our nation in the most important election of my lifetime.
Well Kevin, all’s fair in love, war and politics. Just look at the crap we now have “leading” the once great U.S. The only problem is, Cruz didn’t think to ask the same question about the Donald first.
Same old crap from the Salem/Red State crowd.
I believe that Mike Gallagher is for Trump...
I don’t understand why people think Trump whomped Cruz, Ted made a valid point by saying “hey your mother was a Scottish citizen”
Then Trump goes all nutso and says Achhh!! Doona ye talk aboot me mother ye maple syrup suckin canook!
And how dare ye say Newyawkers are rude!
Yawn. If Trump hadn’t raise the eligibility issue, the Left certainly would have the minute Cruz showed momentum going into the convention. And then Kevin would have been screaming about why Cruz didn’t fight this earlier and how unfair the leftist media is.
Excellent point, but he actually said that she was from Scotland and that she was a naturalized citizen.
Point is Donald has no point
Sounds like Kevin is but hurt that his “smart” lawyer candidate got beat like a rented mule by a lowly businessman. Ahhhh.
LOL I can’t believe the amount of supposedly credible news outlets claim Trump is mean and is lying about Ted Cruz’s eligibility problems. They are “fair and balanced” and do not endorse anyone but will admit Cruz walks on water and Trump is crazy.
How much money does it take for them to totally lose their integrity in this race?
You know whats funny? the keep trumping logo with The Don as Mr natural.
How wholsome LOL lets do a tab of acid LOL
Nice piece and spot on. But it will not please the the Trumpettes.
I don’t understand why people think Trump whomped Cruz, Ted made a valid point by saying “hey your mother was a Scottish citizenâ€
I was shocked at how badly Cruz did at the debate. I keep hearing how he is such a wonderful debater, but boy did he sound like a 10 year old. During the debate he said that Trumps position is that your parents must be NBC in order for you to be NBC. It is so dishonest. Cruz is sounding like the folks on the left who deliberately try to confuse immigrants with illegal immigrants. Awhile ago, I was a Cruz first supporter, but this kind of talk is EXACTLY why I cannot trust him.
Good to see the "P" word getting some use now. A poster here praised DT for being one. When I provided clarity on what it means, I got back, "I don't care."
Pragmatism has roots in Darwinism and secular humanism. It is inherently relativistic, rejecting the notion of absolute right and wrong, good and evil, truth and error. Pragmatism ultimately defines truth as that which is useful, meaningful, helpful. Ideas that don't seem workable or relevant are rejected as false.
This video shows why Trump supporters like him;
Trump Supporter Video - EP 4 “The Last Hope for America”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKAmQvxG2g
He was fine.
Did you watch or did you let folks tell you what you saw?
Cruz addressed this years ago.
It is non starter.
Shows that trump is digging for dirt that aint there
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