We Trumpophiles as you call us, know that Trump is not as “conservative” as we would like — whatever conservatism means these days, it seems to me this certainly does not encompass a coherent philosophy any more. What we like is that Trump has changed the whole paradigm. Illegal immigration is now front and center whereas half a year ago, we were being told there is just nothing we could do, etc. We believe illegal immigration/terrorism is (along with our spiritual corruption of course) threatens our very nation and something must be done, and that Trump is the man to do it. Please try, try, try to understand. We are not idiots, we just see what the most compelling problem is, and that Trump sees it too. Let us get this fixed, and then we can deal with all of our other problems — especially our spiritual problem, which is something each and everyone of us can do on our own. By the way, I happen to agree with Trump, Cruz is not eligible, and we need to face this fact.
“, it seems to me this certainly does not encompass a coherent philosophy any more.”
Because no one will stand up for it and run to the next shiny object before maintaining any integrity.
Historically Trump has been far more “liberal” on the immigration issue than has Cruz. But we’ll leave that discussion for another time.
As far as eligibility....The vast majority of Constitutional scholars would disagree with tour assessment as well as 100 years of the accepted definition for “Natural Born”. By the same logic being used by the minority Anyone born outside the US would be ineligible including anyone born abroad say on vacation or on a weekend in Tijuana. It’s really silly.