[ronnie raygun]

I believe Trump is the planned diversion, a pinyata, a man with the bullseye, on his back, the pied piper!!! remember thier creed locate the victim personalize it and irradicate it. All the nimrods in the media and the rat hords and supporters are following the donald like children to the icecream truck. All the while rooting out the sellouts in the GOP making way for the real candidate which I think is cruz

[Biggirl]

Or Gov. Walker as in Walker/Cruz.

[LS]

The GOPe would never permit that, nor would Trump. He is either a total fraud, crazy, or exactly what he says he is, a concerned American with views that resonate.

Moreover, if this WAS some plot, it absolutely would not be to put Cruz in, but Bush.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I believe Trump is the planned diversion, a pinyata, a man with the bullseye, on his back, the pied piper!!! remember thier creed locate the victim personalize it and irradicate it. All the nimrods in the media and the rat hords and supporters are following the donald like children to the icecream truck. All the while rooting out the sellouts in the GOP making way for the real candidate which I think is cruz

I doubt that Trump is playing the pasty for anyone.

Trump has an unfair advantage; he has (serious) money, and even if other candidates find supporters with similar financial strength those supporters respect “campaign finance reform laws" which restrict their right to spend their money on politics. That is certainly unfair, but it is also blatantly unconstitutional as an abridgment of Americans’ "freedom . . . of the press.” Under the Ninth Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,

shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

the First Amendment should be understood as a floor under our rights, not a ceiling above them. And the Patent Office authorization explicit in

Article 1 Section 8. The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .

combined with the Amendments provisions in Article V, imply that if the “useful art" of “the press” becomes problematical for republican government with the advent of TV etc, a constitutional amendment is the proper remedy.

Nobody has freedom of the press who is not allowed to spend his own money, in the way of his choosing, to propagate his own opinions. On that basis I assert that the campaign finance landscape should be entirely different from what it is. Some, perhaps most, of the money which would freely enter campaign coffers would support candidates I favor less than others, if at all. But scale of the money that “the mainstream media” spends attempting to “flatter [our] prejudices to betray [our] interests,” as Alexander Hamilton put it, makes that a moot point. IMHO.

I do think that Cruz has no desire to cross Trump unnecessarily - and that of all the other candidates he is the one least unlikely to benefit from the considerations this article proposes. The unfortunate part is that Trump would be utterly miscast as a VP. It just doesn’t fit. If it did, Trump would be able to self fund his campaign in the general election.