The voter rebellion is on! Who should lead: Cruz or Trump? Both?

February 3, 2016 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Q: Why are the voters rebelling?

A: The leftist progressives have been treading on our constitution and our liberty for at least the last 100 years and consequently we've suffered a long train of abuses and usurpations: The income tax (16th amendment), ending state sovereignty/concentrating power at the federal level (the 17th amendment), the Fed, heavy-handed/unconstitutional regulations, socialized retirement, socialized health care, restrictions on religious liberty, legalized abortion, federal mandated homosexual marriage with the heavy hand of the federal government enforcing it over the objections of the states and small business operators, the illegal alien invasion, the subversive Muslim invasion, the last 8 years of lawlessness under a Marxist/Islamofascist usurper, and a totally ineffective Republican opposition party that caves in or actually goes along with much of the above.

The tea party rebellion rose up several years ago to try to fight off the most recent Marxist assaults on our liberty and was quite effective at electing Republican majorities in the House and the Senate and in the majority of the states, but all to no avail.

The professional political elites entrenched within the Republican establishment co-opted our newly elected tea party representatives and or otherwise blunted their efforts and continued allowing the Marxist democrats to have their way over us. Even a rebellion against the Speaker of the House did no good. The new Speaker is as weak as the old Speaker.

And so the situation is ripe for rebellion. And we had a great Christian constitutional conservative tea party leader poised to lead it, Ted Cruz. And we were happy to jump on this young lion's bandwagon and push him through to triumph over the Marxist Democrats.

But the entrenched GOP establishment would have none of it and they (the GOPe and related Super PACS and their allies at FOX News and the cheap labor/open borders lobby) lined up behind the malleable open-borders Jeb Bush whom they could control and amassed a vast 100 million dollar plus warchest with promises of millions more to come. With the help of the "free" press, their anointed one was all but nominated. No way would a first term upstart and senate outcast like Ted Cruz overtake their anointed prince.

But then jumped in an older, long-maned alpha lion who's been around the block a couple times, roaring his way to the top of the hill. Trump's hard-nosed, no-nonsense, non-politically-correct, take no prisoners approach quickly grabbed the attention of the masses of fed-up voters. Trump single handedly slew the establishment's Prince Jeb, the media and the establishment itself and completely rewrote the rules of engagement.

His bold pronouncements that he would build a wall, enforce the law and deport them all was the exact right message at the exact right time and immediately vaulted him to front-runner status. And he added to that that he would end sanctuary cities, end anchor babies and even slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration. Again, exactly what the masses wanted to hear.

Now, many of us feel that these twin invasions (illegal aliens and Muslim infiltrators) were and are existential threats to our national sovereignty and were thrilled to have a mighty warrior like Trump who takes no guff from the media or the establishment to lead the charge.

The media, the establishment and even many so-called conservatives immediately objected with "you can't do that." It's unconstitutional and un-American. It's not who we are as Republicans.

That last one was especially telling. "It's not who we are as Republicans."

Ain't that the truth. And that's our entire problem in a nutshell.

Trump's huge rallies attracted thousands and thousands and his polling numbers soared for months. He was leading in most of the national polls and in most states.

But there was a growing counter-insurgency rumbling beneath the rebellion. Trump's history is strewn with contradictory and potentially fatal landmines. Too many of his past pronouncements and activities were on the NY liberal side and some are too much for Christian constitutional conservatives to bear or forgive. He swears that he's now a pro-life, pro-family Christian, but he has also stated that he's never asked for forgiveness. That's mighty hard for Christians to accept, but who are we to judge what's in a man's heart.

So here we are. The rebellion is roaring. The people are massing. Torches and pitchforks at the ready, but we are divided on who should lead it. And not just divided, we're scratching each others eyes out fighting about it. And as we do, the establishment's second choice (Gang of Eight traitor Rubio) is making inroads.

Personally, I'm all in for the Rebellion no matter who leads it. And I've often stated that Cruz is my favorite because of his constitutional conservative stance, but if Trump wins the nomination I'll enthusiastically support him in the general. Why? Because we cannot possibly allow yet another American-hating communist to follow Obama into the White House to complete the job of totally destroying our free Republic. End of that story. It's a no-brainer and my picture is in the dictionary under that term.

I absolutely love Trump's bold stand against illegal aliens and his call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration and believe it's even stronger than Cruz's past positions. I also love Trump's Reagan-like tax plan. Cruz's flat tax proposal is also interesting. I believe they both want to cut regulations, cut spending, cut government, return education to the states, etc, build a powerful military and fight against terrorism and make America great again.

Cruz is stronger on life and marriage and probably on choosing judges, but Trump says he's a pro-life, pro-family Christian but that's always a gamble anyway. Even Reagan and GWB blew a few judicial nominations.

The important thing here (IMHO) is that we save our nation. I'm not ready to rule out either of these candidates. Cruz is off to a great start and is up by one delegate over Trump and together they're double the GOPe's second choice. But it's a long hard grind ahead.

I say we should let the candidates fight it out and not be so eager to trash either one of our leading candidates. Digging up and publishing dirt and rumors on either is not doing our side any good and is potentially destructive in the long run.

And trashing our fellow FReepers is something that should never be done. This is going to be a long fight and we do not want to lose too many of our friends.

Meanwhile, let the rebellion gain strength. We're all in it together to save our nation. Please save your ammunition and your venom for the true enemy on the left.

Oh, I almost forgot. If you haven't already done so, please get your donation in. We're gonna need it to survive this fight.

[onyx]

Fantabulous! Boffo! Bitchin' good!

Remember those words? LOL.

I've read all the posts through #174.
Such a pity some of the worst offenders either haven't seen your powerful message or have purposely neglected to reply.

"Trashing our fellow FReepers is something that should never be done. This is going to be a long fight and we do not want to lose too many of our friends."

Hmmm. I wonder how we're to deal with these dual members of that oppostion, echo chamber site wherein these members trash you and several of us on a regular, daily basis and recommend the withholding of donations in leiu of opuses, like the emotional, troll, who 'damned us all to hell,' libbylu?

IIRC, that suggestion came from the wise, duplicitious elder, Marcella. I know, I know, Marcella kicked-in $20 for your Chinese dinner. Guilt trip, no doubt. "Bless her heart."

ALL, please DRASTICALLY REDUCE your visits to FR or stop visiting it altogether. It needs to be deprived of site hits as well as donations. I've been donating to FR almost every quarter for going on 14 years, and most of the times those donations were $80 to $100. Four times a year. During that time, I have visited it probably daily several times a day; the only times I've missed checking in on FR for days is when I've been away from the internet for days AND between Aug & Nov of 2012, when it became a waste of time because it refused to allow free opinion expressed against a leftist Republican.

FR has become exactly as useful as a digital salad fork.

When it becomes genuinely useful and informative again I'll return and bump its traffic hits constantly again. It WAS my first pick choice to find out what's going on in the world of conservative thinking and debate as well as the world at large. Now it can only provide as biased and stilted a view as the sources it once replaced so its usefulness has ended at least temporarily.

The best way to help FR return to its roots is to visit it only every once in awhile and to stop donating. Otherwise we're just giving a junkie clean needles.
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[fireman15]

Thank you so much for your inspired words and continuing efforts. I am sorry that was unable to donate more just now.

[Jane Long]

God bless you, Jim.

And, may God shed His grace on America.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Your comments are excellent.

For the past six months I have become increasingly concerned about the unfriendly comments being sent from one FReeper to another.

For many years Free Republic has been my source to get a conservative viewpoint of some liberal hogwash published in MSM.

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[RitaOK]

LOL! Lord, I luv u!! LOL!

[RitaOK]

Thank goodness. I thought some would never sober up from that pipe dream in spring time.

[Impy]

Both? There can be only one. Let it be Duncan MacLeod Ted Cruz.

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[Albion Wilde]

Excellent, dear Jim! Thank you!

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to Jim Robinson’s excellent editorial about the elections !

[HandyDandy]

Trump or Bust

[Windflier]

Thanks for the ping. I read JimRob’s excellent article earlier. It’s one of the best things he’s written in a long time. The man’s still got it, doesn’t he?

[Milhous]

Thank you. At this point my political ambitions are modest: to keep a dynasty out of the White House. Too bad that America will probably get stuck with Imperial family sooner or later, judging by what happened to Rome.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Both would be fine with me

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the ping. I read JimRob's excellent article earlier. It's one of the best things he's written in a long time. The man's still got it, doesn't he?

Yes, indeed!

[Albion Wilde]

my political ambitions are modest: to keep a dynasty out of the White House. Too bad that America will probably get stuck with Imperial family sooner or later, judging by what happened to Rome.

They're already trying to set Chelsea up.

[Albion Wilde]

Both would be fine with me

Same here.

[Beowulf9]

That is exactly right. Let’s all work together. There is a lot at stake here.

[Albion Wilde]

Like Rush says, I hope Cruz (and Rubio) are learning from Trump's boldness and audacity.

The reason Trump has that boldness and audacity is because he is beholden to no one. The others, not so much.

[Albion Wilde]

I forget which of the founding fathers said it. "We will either hang together or hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin. "Gentlemen, we must all hang together, or surely we will hang separately."