Posted on 02/13/2016 6:24:41 AM PST by bray
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
This is the greatest election ever and it is only just begun. We have the outsiders completing the work the Tea Party had begun and Moscow on the Potomac has no idea what is about to hit them. When you look at the two Parties you have one which is being headed by some old as dirt Leninists who are in a competition of who can make this the Soviet Union before they hit the dirt nap against our socialists who want to give it away less quickly and the Outsiders.
As the only person who predicted Trump and Cruz would be fighting it out six months ago and predicted Trump would win big a month ago it is time for the explanation why. Both Trump and Cruz would win against Sanders after he beats Hillary for a few reasons. The first is America is ready for a real change and have had their eyes opened from the Obama Depression. Cruz would win on Ground Game and Trump will win with his media wars and in this case Trump will be the nominee in a sweep across the country.
Since Trump and his supporters are universally hated by both the liberal and Conservative Punditocracy it is time an explanation is given why his movement see him as the superior candidate. As a fundamental Christian we do not care if the candidate is holy enough, we appreciate that he only respects us and is able to articulate basic conservative ideas. We have all worked with people who have a spicy language and especially in the construction industry so most of us overlook it whether we use those words or not.
The main issue we like is his dedication to the wall. Until the wall is built there is no point in talking about deportation since there is no real deportation without that wall. After it is built or at least the border being shut while construction occurs then it is simply grandstanding using the usual amnesty cliches with no solutions. Trump is the first one and most likely the only one who is serious about building it and the rest will never get it done.
His second largest issue is taking on Political Correctness. He has rolled back the PC mafia at least five years which is highlighted by his saying illegal aliens need to be deported as well as a moratorium on allowing Mooselimbs into our country and stating he does not believe in Global Warming. These are all considered sacrilege to the PC crowd as he tramples on sacred cow after sacred cow. The rest of the candidates only state their nuanced platitudes to straddle the same fence which has surrendered issue after issue. Political Correctness is the biggest club the Marxists have to beat down the opposition into submission and he beats them back to their safe rooms with courage and a sense of humor.
Is he a pure Conservative who knows the Conservative doxology inside and out or a record of marching in lockstep with Rush Limbaugh? No, he is a businessman; who like the ferry operator in the Outlaw Josey Wells, he learned to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie with equal enthusiasm to survive. In New York City if you want to build skyscrapers you have to sing the Battle Hymn more often than Dixie. He does not have the luxury of only donating one direction and irritating the Dems who are very vindictive which will add millions to his costs if he can get permits at all.
He is far more Conservative than all except perhaps Cruz, but he articulates and knows capitalism better than any other person on the stage. It really is not close who knows economics better than anyone on the stage or in DC, period. He is not a socialist and understands capitalism inside and out which is why he articulates it far better than anyone in the country. He did not learn it in the halls of Harvard or discussing it in some think tank, he lived capitalism his entire life in one of the toughest industries on the planet. Capitalism is in his veins which is why his explanations are substantive yet simple enough for America to understand. He is teaching America what capitalism is for the first time in fifty years.
This is why his time is now. After fifty years or more of Americans being told that the only solution to every one of their problems is gummit, it is refreshing to have someone articulate capitalism in a language they can understand. He keeps it simple and hits a couple of highlights without getting into the weeds where he lives with charm and charisma which is spellbinding. This country needs someone who can take this country another direction and Trump has the knowledge, credibility and a very high level of articulation to get that done. Add to that he is likely one of the top five negotiators in the country if not the world and you have a set of skills we have never seen.
From a purely Tea Party attitude and what America is telling the political establishment on both sides we just want to blow it all up. We want to bulldoze DC and watch all of those sanctimonious elites jump into the trash heap. While everyday Americans work hard only to be laughed at, insulted and ripped off they are about to tell these useless, incompetent Marxists to take a hike since we cannot afford you anymore. We need someone with a big "You're Fired" sign and we have just the guy for that.
The biggest reason Trump will win is he is not afraid to get ugly. Republicans have to go against the Three Pillars of Propaganda (media, academia and the DNC) to win. They have two choices, they can win ugly or lose graciously and it is much easier to be gracious. The establishment would rather debate and convince voters through high brow debating societies while the Dems are calling them racist, sexist homophobes. Trump will win ugly which is how this country is going to get fixed.
The establishments on both sides believe politics is fought in a cotillion with high brow discussions about the superiority of the Constitution when in reality it is a knife fight in the mud with no rules. This is where Trump has lived his life and has a room full of heads to prove it. The Pundiots do not want to go there and they certainly do not want to act like they approve of it and get splashed on their pearly white suits, so they vilify and mock to mask their fear of actually having to get their hands dirty. The Conservative pundits would rather lose graciously then win ugly since they too have become the establishment.
Trump will be the nominee. He has pointed his entire life at this moment and has the skills and abilities nobody on either stage has with the courage to say what he and the American people think. It is not pure Conservatism, but it is pure capitalism. Capitalism has not been pure for a hundred years, but capitalists adapt to the draconian rules they have to play by and adapt which Marxism cannot do and he is the master. He will drive the purists crazy since he is going to do what is right in his gut, but in the end they will be based on capitalism which is the basics of Conservatism. He is like the bulldozer that cuts a path through the overgrown trees to begin to build a road back to the rundown City on the Hill. The next guy can pave it after Trump dynamites and builds a road back to America.
Pray America wakes
And yet you cant dispute them. that’s funny. Talking points are truth and that’s something Trump Supporters don’t like to hear. But he will build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. YAY...Trump is great. Oh please lord Trump, please fart so we may praise it.
The Cruz thugs have arrived.
No positive posts for Trump are allowed on their bored. We have seen your talking points 1000 times and you are the only pure Conservatives on the planet, we get it.
This is an explanation of why he is winning and not an invitation to lay down your talking points.
Now get lost.
That was last fall. Will be interesting to see if any show up this week at Daytona.
Excellent braying.
It seems that every individual has their own definition of “conservative”. To one, it’s religion, to another, it’s disagreeing with democrats, and everything in between.
If you’re car is in a ditch, you call a wrecker service. You’re not concerned if the car has a crucifix hanging from the rear view mirror, you just want the car out of the ditch.
If you’re dying with cancer and the guy with the cure is not an avid church goer, you go for the cure first, and try to convert him later. Then you go to church to thank God for sending you this wonderful physician.
We have a gigantic job to do - rescue America from the giant Obama abyss. If you are devoutly religious, you already have a leader to show you to the promised land, his name is Jesus.
Meanwhile, we have to live, and survive in the materialistic world where evil has acquired a foothold. A lot of dirty tricks have been pulled on us and we need a strong hand to return us to the freedom to worship as we please, and keep our family and fortune safe.
Trump is no saint, but he’s not a Muslim either. He’s the strong hand we need to give government back to the people. He stands strong for America. He’s rich beyond conception for most of us, so he would be taking a huge pay cut being president. Why else would a man want to leave his palatial home for the White House, and give up his plane for the likes of Air Force One?
God is not doing Donald Trump a favor by making him president, God is doing us a favor by sending us the leader we need to overcome tyranny, and to make possible the return to one natio, under God.
The bash trump posts will continue, ad nauseaum, but only by those who have their own horse in the race. I, for one, want the corruption, graft, and tyranny to end. I’d like to be able to take an evening stroll without being mugged, or killed.
Trump has become of note due to his role as lie-puncturer.
Trump has no patience for the idea that we can’t protect America, that we have to have a ghastly inefficient healthcare system, that we have to keep embracing a plethora of negatives that we have been embracing.
Cruz is the more traditional “Christian values” fellow. However sometimes he gets a bit shallow about it. He’d rather look good than do good, sometimes (and doing good, as Jesus displayed, can sometimes make you look pretty bad).
Neither of these people are perfect. However if one had to measure each candidate against the resources that God has given him, totally IMHO it would look like Trump is being more effective.
Very well stated!
He is not Jesus he is more like Patton.
“Cruzbots would love to control the conservative narrative. Unfortunately, they don’t. Trump taught you a lesson that you are even now unwilling to learn. Want to own the word conservative? Look directly into the camera and say things like, “No more Muslims.†People will start paying attention because they know you aren’t playing the game anymore. It’s clobberin’ time.”
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Exactly, and it’s very telling what conservative issues were important to the candidates at the time they announced their run.
Take Terrorism, for instance...
What did Cruz say?
Cruz March 2015
Imagine a president who says “We will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism...” “... and we will call it by its name.”
THAT’s it!
But he mentioned CUBA FIVE TIMES! “torture in Cuba, growing up in Cuba, he flees Cuba, free Cuba from the dictator, Cuba was not at a peaceful time.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-ted-cruzs-speech-at-liberty-university/2015/03/23/41c4011a-d168-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html
RUBIO April 2015.....yes,we will pay salary to him and Cruz for a year while they campaign!
NOTHING, not a word, but he mentioned CUBA twice! “Cuban exiles” and “poor families in Cuba” http://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/
TRUMP June, 2015
Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They’ve become rich.
They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should’ve taken.
So now ISIS has the oil, and what they don’t have, Iran has. And in 19 — and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said — and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we’ve ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, “Don’t hit Iraq,” because you’re going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.
We get Bergdahl, they get five killer terrorists that everybody wanted over there. We get Bergdahl. We get a traitor.
Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody. I will find — within our military, I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-donald-trump-announces-his-presidential-candidacy/
What exactly has Trump said that is a dealbreaker for you?
More lies from the good churchies for Cruz.
I’d chide you slightly on your reference to charity.
What has passed for charity in a state-dominated culture isn’t. It really is a golden shackle.
Actual charity as given and received for the sake of God isn’t enslavement at all — it is empowerment to pursue the purposes of God, which are always blessed in the end whatever trials they encounter on the way. People have mistaken being humbled for losing their freedom, and it is not so.
Trump has played this well.
His self funding on the front end is merely “loaning” his campaign money.
After being nominated or elected he will hold fundraiser and events to retire his campaign debt.
Nothing wrong with this, and I like Trump.
If he loses, no one will care who donates to pay off his debt. If he wins, no one will pay attention to it.
It will go something like this:
“In the news today, Iran attacked Syria. President Trump, attending a “private fundraising event” in Manhattan, could not be reached for comment.”
The beauty of his plan is that no one right now knows who those donors will be, but they will be there.
Hopefully, it will be donors that meet Trump supporters high scrutiny of who donates to campaigns.
You simply refuse to listen. Ergo you will never learn. It’s the courage to say the things that are hard to say. Get it? When did Cruz EVER say anything so politically incorrect? I have your answer ready for ya. . NEVER.
Actually, bray, I’d say he is kind of Balaam’s donkey.
Kicking some liars’ rears.
The truth has to come from another source, and through We The People. We see that in how he is compiling an agenda.
I hate to break it to you... Cruz was born in Canada.
Very true, Balaam’s donkey was the only one who could see the Angel with the sword. Well said.
So you’re saying Trump isn’t from NYC?
My byline did not mention or invoke religion, it’s only saying when you owe someone, you are obligated to them. Sorry you missed the point.
Well that isn’t the terms of charity.
The giver of charity only wants to see the favor paid forward, that is, back to the God who gave it.
What you have decried, is the terms of things that masquerade as charity.
So I got the point quite well; you missed it.
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