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"the Tedster" ... *sigh* The FACT stubbornly REMAINS that Donald Trump was every bit as supportive of Syrian refugees here as Cruz was, even when the numbers were much higher than the hundreds they were talking about back in 2014.

If you go back further with Cruz, you'll see that he has been defending the rights of Christians at least as long and just as ardently. Where is Donald Trump's warning that gay marriage opens the door wide to persecuting Christians, as Ted Cruz was warning way back in July of 2013?

Sure, there's concern that Cruz is a product of the DC system. People should also understand that there is concern that for 21 of the past 26 years, Donald Trump donated as much to Democrat politicians as he did to Republican politicians -- more to Democrats, actually -- and only started donating exclusively to Republicans (including Romney, who was and remains an amoral functional leftist Democrat) five years ago.

I know -- "He's a businessman, he did it as the cost of doing business."

So tell me another Republican candidate in whom it wouldn't be major cause for concern if for 80 percent of the past 26 years, he had donated MORE to the opposition party than to his own party in order to advance his bottom line?

Understand and embrace the TRUTH that Donald Trump materially helped advance the rise to power of Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and other leftist tyrants, for his own (and his shareholders') financial gain. Harming the cause of liberty was for him less important than profiting himself and his shareholders.

Accept it, because it is the truth. You warn about "the Tedster" as a DC system guy, what about "The Donald" as an amoral apolitical profiteer at the denigration of liberty?

Sincere patriot that Donald Trump may be (and I believe he is all of that), truth is truth. Ignoring it is folly and and exceedingly bad risk.

Here is another concern, and it is absolute: The ONLY reason most people in the U.S. have ever even heard of Donald Trump is because of SEVEN YEARS of self-promotion on a very large scale through a hit TV show that crafted a PR image of Donald Trump as a brassy brilliant billionaire businessman real estate mogul who is a genius. SEVEN YEARS, up until 2013.

It has a lot to do with why people have so much confidence and faith in Donald Trump -- brilliant marketer and showman that he is, it is a "brand" he has carefully crafted for himself. Fall for it at your own risk.

Much of what you say is true. And, as I argued last June/July, we are in a new era of media, which plays to Trump (but not to Cruz). I do recall early in this cycle (July or so) Trump was already insisting that Christians in the Middle East were not being protected or treated well.

My concerns about Ted are merely that, concerns. I have no evidence to say what he would do, any more than anyone else. But I do think that the "insider" tag is one of the main reasons that Cruz's numbers remain low. Anyway, we'll see. So far every prediction I've made about Trump since June has pretty much been on target---where he would be after each debate, what would, and would not "hurt" him.

And I think he'll wrap it up not long after Super Tues and sometime after that Cruz will be the veep.

Donald donated what? A thousand dollars? A whole thousand dollars.

Did he pledge a hundred million dollars to a democrat PAC? No, he didn’t. He gave a pittance to politicians of both stripes.

In 2008 he backed McCain.

In 2012 he backed Romney.

He thought Obama might be a unifier and was sadly disappointed.

Your figures are fudged and exaggerated. If you disagree, show your evidence and sources. But you won’t because they don’t exist. Oh there will be chicken shit to find, but then only people that put their stock in chicken shit will post such crap. So post something substantial or go away.