Cal Thomas: Voters shouldn't buy into a Donald Trump candidacy

In bridge, a trump card is held in reserve for winning a trick. In politics, Donald Trump is anything but reserved and appears to think he might trick enough voters to win the next presidential election.

There's plenty to draw on when critiquing a possible Trump candidacy. His multiple marriages (three) and affairs provide fodder for the media and contrast poorly with President Barack Obama's "family values" image as husband of one wife and father of young daughters, whom he clearly loves.

In recent weeks, Trump has been trying to gain a toehold in the evangelical community, which is especially influential in Iowa, where caucuses begin the process of nominating a presidential candidate.

In an interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump described Christianity as "a wonderful religion." In answer to a question about his faith, Trump said, "I believe in God. I am Christian. I think the Bible is certainly, it is 'the' book. It is the thing."

To evangelical ears, that lacks substance. While a candidate's faith should matter only if it affects policy, if someone wishes to use his or her faith to win votes, then voters ought to be able to judge the depth of that faith as a means of determining their credibility.

What should we make of Trump telling Brody that people send him Bibles all the time and that he stores them "in a very nice place"? "There is no way I would ever throw anything, to do anything negative to a Bible. I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive so actually I store them and keep them and sometimes give them away to other people."

Does he read the Bible and believe what it says? How about the parts concerning marriage, divorce and fornication?

I’m not going to close my ears just because braying voices from all sides of the aisle tell me to

Nor should you. The dope on Trump that proves he's no conservative is a matter of public record. You make your own mind up. Just remember that the rest of us are counting on you to do exactly what you just said, keep your ears open and do the right thing in the ballot box. That's all.

Peace,

Very few people are as good unscripted as scripted. Note my tag line. I am an aficionado of Churchill, who went through some struggles of his own with his public speaking. If you follow his life, he was much better scripted than unscripted. Like Palin, he was more of a writer than a speaker, constantly searching for a better way to say what he had already said quite well.

You can hear this in some of Palin’s more awkward moments. She’s struggling to reconstruct a thought she started one way but wants to take a different direction, so she has to bend the sentence a bit to get there. I agree, she should stop doing that. But it’s who she is. And if I had to choose between a constant thinker like Palin and someone slick like Trump, who is glib mainly because he never flies out of his tiny little comfort zone, I’ll take Palin every time.

BTW, most people don’t know this, but Churchill had a Katy-Couric-like moment early in his career too. It was one of his first speeches to Parliament. He had been using extensive paper notes to make his speeches (the then equivalent of a teleprompter), and wanted to try to free himself from those notes. On the occasion in question, he stood up, mumbled a bit, froze, went awkwardly silent, and sat down, not giving the rest of his speech. From that point on he always used notes, a script if you will, but they were more of an outline guide with room for embellishment and improvisation as the occasion required. The rest, as they say, is history.

“Just remember that the rest of us are counting on you to do exactly what you just said, keep your ears open and do the right thing in the ballot box. That’s all.
Peace,
SR”

The one thing I’m 100% certain to do is to vote for whoever is running against the Marxist/Islamophile currently destroying the country. If there are two running against him, I’ll vote for the one with the guts to ask the questions that need to be asked. No more voting for RINOs - or “conservatives” who don’t have the nerve to say what I (and many of us) believe.

Peace2
MF

. I repeat, he is a conservative.

Repeat it 1,000 times and it still won't betrue. THINK Dede the liberal - and that's just one example. NEWT is a RINO and I don't have to repeat it - he outed himself. He's the one who said 'The Reagan Era is Over'!

Hey Newt - what about the BC issue? Can't hear you!! Are you too busy with your global warming and sofa sitting w/Pelosi?

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