This is the week that Ted Cruz won the Republican nomination

Now i see you’re using sarcasm. Good one. Trump hates pay to play! Lmao! He also Hates having his own jet and his kids right?

You seem awfully interested in my personal information, almost disturbingly so. Nevertheless, I shall tell you that I am 48 years of age.

I call Trump ‘Little Donald’ as a remark on his character, not his stature.

And just because I am not employing anyone now does not mean I have not in the past ;)

You can mock my personal net worth if that makes you feel bigger. Lord knows Little Donald is insecure enough to have to do that, too, but I am content with what I have and, as a rule, happy.

So, any other personal information of mine you want to know? (And the Trumpsters call CRUZ ‘creepy’ ... they got nothing on you!)

‘Liberty’ meant a whole lot of different things to the founding generation. David Hackett Fischer wrote a book on this subject alone.

Hamilton definitely was the father of a strong central government, at least what passed for it in his era. He can’t be dismissed because he represents the faction that won the debate. And Lincoln ended whatever remained of the argument by force of arms, and Americans foolishly hail that as the high water mark of the American presidency.

Trump isn’t breaking any ground at all with his call for economic nationalism. Google “the American System” or Henry Clay. And again his combination of populism and nationalism is most reminiscent of Andrew Jackson.

Carson Holloway at Heritage Foundation writes about the idea that Hamilton is the father of progressivism:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/04/alexander-hamilton-and-american-progressivism

“Although Hamilton advocated an energetic national government, his grounds for doing so reveal that his thinking has much more in common with American conservatism than it has with its progressive ideological rival. Hamilton’s program as Secretary of the Treasury was animated by his practical interest in laying the foundations of American security and prosperity, not by any progressive concern with pursuing a continual amelioration and equalization of social conditions. His vision, therefore, called for active but not unlimited government.

Moreover, Hamilton shared the Founders’ rather conservative view of the limits of human nature and the dangers of excessively concentrated power and accordingly defended institutions like separation of powers and federalism that modern progressives have been quick to criticize. Finally, as both theorist and statesman, Hamilton was guided by the Founding natural-rights doctrine, which progressivism is inclined to jettison.
Alexander Hamilton and Energetic Government

In his own day, Hamilton famously advocated a strong national government. The call for a more powerful national government is a thread that runs throughout Hamilton’s career in American politics, and it informed his most famous acts of statesmanship. That advocacy affords the most obvious ground on which to establish the claim that he was a kind of proto-progressive.

Today, the progressive political vision also calls for the national government to take on much more responsibility and power than conservatives are willing to concede. Hamilton therefore seems to have occupied in his own time a political position analogous to that taken by progressives today.

Taken in its proper historical context, however, Hamilton’s advocacy of strong national government appears to stem from a different rationale and to subsist within more clearly defined boundaries than is true for the progressive advocacy of today. As a young man, Hamilton served as George Washington’s chief aide during most of the American War of Independence. He was an eyewitness to all of the inconvenience and even danger that arose from the government’s lack of power to raise men and matériel under the Articles of Confederation. By the early 1780s, Hamilton was already calling for reforms that would increase the power of the government of the Union.[4] “

Thank you very much!

Stolen puppy had me extremely upset and you’re right, I’m still unable to calm down. Now, he’s suspicious and won’t take his prescribed medicine. I’ve tried hiding it in melted cheese and wonderful sliced roast beef. No sale!

Certainly I am not attempting to claim Hamilton is as extreme as progressives today (though you rightly acknowledge that for his era, he may have occupied a similar place in the political zeitgeist). The Hamiltonian connection was brought up because I stated I was fond of Liberty, and a small central government, then someone suggested that because Hamilton was a founder, and did not share my small-government outlook, that somehow I ‘knew nothing’ about Liberty. I found such a claim preposterous, and still do. The founders were not demi-gods, but men with different experiences and opinions that somehow managed to give us a Republic of limited governance, one that has become increasingly diluted with time. Thus, I can no longer vote for someone (like Trump) who I believe would only dilute it somewhat more slowly than someone like Clinton or Sanders.

Nate Silver and Red State are wrong,.....paid liar in fact

More in the avalanche of anti Trump crap pimped today on the forum from Cruz trolls mostly from left wing sites often not permitted here

Trump needs 55% of the remaining delegates left

Cruz needs 90%

Many are favored Trump states with winner take most or all

Very doable

Cruz loses 19 or more and he’s gone but since you’re #nevertrump that doesn’t matter...you and the GOPe you’re not a part of will still try to stop Trump

You can do the math

1237-755/867 =55%

Good luck trying to thwart the voters....either way you will lose

Hahaha Sharky!

Just for you ... I think Mr. Trump is the only American patriot running for the GOP nomination who truly loves our country and is willing to spend his own money in this pursuit to prove that he is beholden to no outside interests, just the people voting for him, and most certainly not the damn sleazy RNC “ back stabbing delegates.”

Current Polls Favor A Trump Delegate Majority
Princeton Election Consortium ^ | April 9th, 2016, 4:59pm | Sam Wang

Posted on 04/09/2016 3:21:07 PM PDT by M. Thatcher

I wish more Cruz consumers would wake up from their sophomoric stupors and become more practical-minded.

In 2014, I was a strong Cruz supporter because I would listen and smile to someone who could push every one of my conservative buttons and who would put me in a nostalgic mood remembering the greatness of Reagan. Oh how sweet that sound.

But as time went on, I reluctantly had to accept the reality that Cruz was no Reagan (I shook Ronald Reagan’s hand in 1990) but still I would cling to the hope that people would long as I did for a return of Reagan or Reagan philosophy.

But that hope vanished too because as a scientist I had to look at the facts which were that the electorate of today were kids when Ronald Reagan left office. They never understood the real Reagan. All the talk about individualism and limited government was a mere attempt at codifying who Reagan was in spirit.

Reagan was not elected in 1980 because he was a conservative. Most people back then had no real understanding of conservatism other than some fringe political ideology. Reagan was elected because he was a hardliner against the USSR and terrorists. It was the Iranian Hostage crisis coupled with the most awful economy of Jimmy Carter that ushered Ronald Reagan into the White House. And still the press (which was miniscule then) pounded the public that Reagan would set off WWIII.

What Ronald Reagan did for America was not so much setting conservative policies or appointing conservative justices (he appointed Anthony Kennedy who gave America homosexual perversion which has brought a relentless persecution of Christians). What Ronald Reagan brought to America was OPTIMISM. He created a culture, an environment that we can do things and we can be proud to be Americans.

Ted Cruz simply does not connect with Americans the way Ronald Reagan did. Cruz does not inspire anything. He just preaches Constitution. He has no practical experience in what most Americans go through to carve out their lives. He’s never built anything, never started anything. His life has been almost exclusively academics and government employment. He’s not representative and he’s certainly not capable of inspiring the American people in the way that Ronald Reagan inspired Americans of his time.

Donald Trump has the heart of America, he inspires, he creates a culture and environment for enthusiasm and optimism. He knows what needs to be done to restructure the debt, to write favorable trade deals, to reform taxes and healthcare, to reboot our military, to make foreign policy work, to put Americans first.

When Ronald Reagan was President, the unions controlled 40% of labor. Today they control less than 15%. In Ronald Reagan’s day, the unions were the bad guys. They had benefitted too long from a protectionist trade policy and they were arrogant and greedy. Reagan set about to break their power by striking down the protective nationalism that had allowed the unions to have too much control. Ma Bell was broken up, Japanese cars took enormous market share away from Detroit, and so on.

But today the culprits are not the unions, they are the politicians and the bankers. Their stranglehold needs to be released on the American people. Americans need to be put first and that entails rewriting the trade deals that the current cadre of politicians and bankers have profited from. You see after Ronald Reagan weakened the power brokers of nationalism, the power brokers learned a new trick, how to profit by offshoring. The more things change, the more things stay the same.

The pendulum has swung back the other way, it has swung to Trump. He is the man who is marked to be today’s leader, not Cruz. Cruz was marked to come later. But Cruz may not come now at all because he has revealed his poor decision making, his lack of ethics, his poor judgment. He knows how to talk about the Constitution, but he cannot inspire much of anything else. He is not even fit to be a Supreme Court Justice. And he may not even be reelected Senator because he won his TX primary with only 43% of the vote.

Donald Trump knows that deals are ‘people’. They are not abstract things, they are actual people. You make deals, you make people, you make bonds between and among people. When we ‘think’ in the abstract of limited government, we can oversimplify and start rattling off ideas like eliminating the EPA, the Dept. of Education, the Energy Department, and so on and so on. But in everyone of those thoughts there is required thousands and thousands of deals. It can be done but it takes time unless we march in like Nazis and start giving orders to be carried out on penalty of death.

So we can’t follow through under Cruz’ abstract idealism. What we need is pragmaticism. Consider that even Ronald Reagan was not able in 8 years to accomplish limited government. For us to say we can do it is no different that the communist who thinks that the next time they are going to make it work for sure.

If you want real insight to how we get back to limited government, it’s not by electing Cruz. It’s by studying our history in detail and understanding the acts and events that set us on the course to where we find ourselves today. That would start with the Progressive Era of the early 20th Century, the 16th and 17th Amendments, the Federal Reserve Act. To really get back down the road to limited government we would have to reverse a lot of structure put in place and that could only be done by Constitutional Amendment. But Washington DC will never do that. They will never do anything that diminishes their power. Hence, it must be done by states as in my tagline.

But Donald Trump, as the true outsider, will be open to great reforms that will make America great again, make it more like it was originally designed to work. He knows how to make the people meaning the deals. He won’t make Utopia or make anything particular enduring except perhaps the Southern Wall, but he can create a movement and inspire people. Cruz cannot do that because at some point he has to get pragmatic, and pragmatism and idealism are like oil and water.

But the ideals are what you appreciate, what you savor. Those are the things that inspire you, But you have to ask yourself how do you get the ideals out of the thinking space and into the workspace? You have to make deals, but Cruz can’t do that because he is owned. He is controlled now by the Party of Romney which was his poor judgment to be associated with.

So he’s just an actor pushing your buttons. He has no chance to ever make his idealism come into existence because those that own him want him to continue that which makes a profit for them, which are the existing trade deals, the international people by which they make profits with.

But he sounds good, sometimes, especially to the inexperienced conservative. How I wish they were wise instead.

how many of us are actually learning about the primary race? We are learning as Trump is learning! LOL state to state.

thing is. The laws can be changed, yes? Will anyone do anything about it? We’ll see.

Now...After 30 years of talking about running for president DT should know what he is doing.

Are you sure you want him to run the country? It’s not only about building a wall.

Trump needs 55%

I don’t think that’s fantasy

The rest is hypothetical

But if you think these millions of Trump voters will just go along if the CruzGOPe collusion decide in their wisdom if Trump doesn’t quite get there and Cruz has 60% of the votes Trump does that they can just load the delegate slates since they control the state parties and take the nomination from him

Then they are mistaken

But they don’t think that......AT THIS POINT WINNING IS IRRELEVANT TO CRUZIES AND GOPe and # NEVERTRUMPS

ITS ABOUT KEEPING TRUMP OFF THE TICKET AND OUT OF CONTROL OF THE PARTY EVEN IF IT MEANS LOSING

Why must we have to do their work for them

It’s not difficult

Sasha is nevertrump

A waste of time politically

Prolly a swell little woman

You claim Cruz is ‘owned’, but provide no evidence for it. Whereas Trump can be owned by anyone willing to stroke his ego. His countless issue-flips and chameleonlike changes are proof of that.

So Trump ‘inspires’ people? So what? He’s inspiring them because they’re convinced he’ll use the Big Stick of government to provide largess on their behalf instead of someone else’s. It’s perfectly understandable, but if you’re someone like me who doesn’t believe it’s the government’s job to pick who gets the goodies (be it in the form of welfare checks or draconian trade policies), then he’s inspiring people to embrace their worst impulses, the impulse that says ‘Take care of me, I’m owed!’

That’s inspiration I can do with less of.

There’s not ‘even more’ millions for your guy. Trump has the most votes by millions and millions.

Whoever wins by such a wide margin tells the other side they lost. They don’t even have to tell it, it’s always been accepted that way. It’s bizarre that you are even asking the question.

But if the other side says well we don’t care, we are going to just win one way or another, then free democratic elections are lost. And Revolution follows.

I’m not #NeverTrump.

I’m #NeverRINO.

Trump’s just the latest RINO Yuckburger in a shiny new wrapper and we’re being asked to swallow it again.

Nope, sorry. Been there, done that.

That’s the way the death od a party progresses. He’s not alone.

LOL.

Well, the poster means nothing to me and she likely won’t bother to read the linked article, (which is excellent, BTW).

In fact, I’ve never heard of her before tonight.

Be well. God bless.

I posted something very similar, but you did with less verbiage. LOL

Two thumbs up, Pelham! :-)

well said, Rufus Shinra!

ping to all y’all

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3419304/posts?page=90#90

BRAVO....GREAT POST !