If you had principles you would understand.
1. I'm with Juan on the principles over "benefits" perspective.
2. If Matt doesn't see the value in standing up for honor, perhaps he'll see the potential to make a quick buck by selling the story? If Lakin sells a book (ghost written, of course), he may make more in a year than the value of his foregone benefits. The nice thing about that is that he would have earned the money honorably rather than by supporting a usurper who refuses to prove his legal eligibility and who is clearly not an American in any meaningful sense regardless of where he happens to have been born.
"History is written by the victors" and I would love to see the list of presidents that my grandchildren study:
#41 - George H. W. Bush 1989-1993
#42 - William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001
#43 - George W. Bush 2001-2009
#44 - Sarah Louise Palin 2013-2021
#45 - James Warren DeMint 2021-2029
Besides the fact that sixteen years under real Americans who believe the Constitution means what it says and that America as a free country is inherently great would rejuvenate our country for a century, it would warm my heart to see the usurper written not out of history because we need to learn from this terrible error that the parasitic and the dead made but out of the list of holders of the highest office in the land.