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He is setting up the straw man that to be a registered Republican, one must have impeccable conservative credentials, even though poll after poll has shown that conservativism per se is a minority of around 40% of our electorate, within which an extreme conservative faction of around 10% or more are too pure to vote for insufficiently conservative candidates (most of whom seem to post on this Forum), leaving a group of around 30% potential conservative voters who would actually vote for a more moderate candidate. So how does he propose that Republicans make up the difference to actually win a national race like the presidency -- especially since we do not have a one man-one vote pure democracy, so a wide margin needs to be built in to account for the Electoral College system that protects us from mob rule.

The pecksniffian holier-than-thou wing of the "party" loathes people who make the attempt to actually form a big tent and get along with many types of groups through finding broad common interests, believing their role to be exclusionary and doctrinaire rather than "love thy neighbor", "pray for your enemies" and "render unto Caesar" Christians so that we might have a nation that, despite its pluribus, remains unum. Trump personifies the big tent type of leader, who loves people as he finds them, seeks to draw out of each group the positive basics that many American groups have in common, and seems to want to exclude only the sworn and demonstrable enemies (illegals and ideological supporters of shari'a) of this broader idea of a workable Christian society.

Those Christians who want to use this election to force the U.S. back into a functional theocracy by the power of Federal government do not seem to realize what they are demanding of their candidate, and how greatly they will be disillusioned if Cruz were to be elected and then fail to outlaw abortion and other religious hot-button issues due to opposition from the large liberal/progressive contingent.

God and His law are not defeated by those who don't believe. Doubts, fears and unrepentant sin in the hearts of believers have allowed the fascist secularists to take over. The hearts of believers need to be governed by the minds of believers, first and foremost. Government cannot do that for us.

This is one of the best summaries of what is reality. We’ve been told time and time again that the majority of the voting public is conservative. I really don’t know. I know that there are common veins among Americans, that has been skewed because of misinformation given to the low informational voter by the democrats, and secondly the influx of foreigners who vote democrat.

Charles Krauthammer said something last night that really hits the mark, and I think Trump more than anyone feels the same way. Kraut said:

“America has one million first round draft picks. Why don’t we start using them, and bring in the best people to bring into this country. Instead we bring in anyone, and many time the worst for the worst reasons.”