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There will be a time when this election is over. In anticipation of that day, we should choose our words carefully.

I don’t get the anger. Although I have noticed that the anger of supporters of the dear senator seems to feed upon itself. You should take a moment and look at one of your posts from a year ago and compare it to those you’re penning today. Do you think your comments are more persuasive? More positive? I remember you as an A list poster here and am wondering what the hell happened?

In any case, if you wish to discuss the election, you may wish to consider another scenario: that of Ted Cruz as the judas goat. The political establishment is deathly tired of the right wing. They also think strategically. What better way to wreck the right wing than to give them a candidate that will lose badly in the general election so they can say for once and for all: look....the conservatives had their chance, and they got clobbered.

I take your observations and criticisms seriously.

I've already indicated that I will support Trump should he become the nominee. I repeat this now so that there is no question of personal pique motivating my comments concerning Trump. I simply am of the conviction that Donald Trump's biography compels the conclusion that he is no conservative, rather that he is a narcissist without a coherent political philosophy, certainly not a coherent conservative philosophy.

I compare his biography to the biography of Ted Cruz and I come irresistibly to the conclusion that Ted Cruz is our beau ideal of a conservative warrior who has held true to principled conservative convictions all his life. Everything in Ted Cruz's life demonstrates high intelligence, profound conviction, high moral character. Everything in Donald Trump's life suggests profound character flaws.

It is not at all clear that Donald Trump would be a more attractive candidate in the general election than Ted Cruz. Trump's negatives are through the roof and it is mishandling of protesters, culminating in the Chicago near riots, demonstrate how vulnerable he is to a media onslaught. I am old enough to remember what they did to Barry Goldwater and I know that it takes a deft candidate with the style and art of a Ronald Reagan to finesse the media when it is in full jihad mode.

Every primary season brings out the worst of all us and this cycle seems to be even worse than usual. I hope we can repair the damage going into the general election. It looks like it we Cruz supporters such as myself who will have to swallow hard and salute and that is what I am prepared to do.

Meanwhile, I am not prepared to surrender my self-respect for comity.

that of Ted Cruz as the judas goat. The political establishment is deathly tired of the right wing.
They also think strategically.

What better way to wreck the right wing than to give them a candidate that will lose badly in the general election so they can say for once and for all: look....the conservatives had their chance, and they got clobbered.

Viola, they come up Cruz, the caricature of what the GOPe thinks is our vision of the perfect candidate.

Didn't work, he couldn't pull it off.