He may not be the best politician on stage with his fellow Republicans, but he is articulate in his rallies and successfully argued before the USSC. Those who say he has done nothing while in the Senate are just plain wrong. He has fought against the GOPe since arriving.
Anyway, I'll vote for Trump and hope he appoints the best.
I would like to enter your conversation for a quick comment, if I could.
I supported Ted Cruz, to the point of donating to him when he declared last March. I thought Trump to be a clown when there was rumor of him declaring in late May, and I hoped that he wouldn’t. However, Trump won me over, and Cruz lost me for a variety of reasons.
That all said, I would vote for either of them, or any of the other 15 Republicans in the race, over any Dem - there is simply no question about that. I can look beyond the intra-family squabbles (and it DID get very immature, on all sides), and see the big picture that this country simply cannot afford another Socialist one-worlder; in fact, we have to go hard in the other direction, especially with debt reduction and how our kids are educated about this country, or we’re done.
My read on Cruz: well, I’m an attorney, though not a litigator. I can truly appreciate his brilliance and his many accomplishments in the courts. My feeling about his shortcomings (we ALL have them, no matter how accomplished) is that he’s just never lost anything of importance to him before. He didn’t - and still doesn’t - know how to accept that he didn’t win, especially given the extraordinary amount of time and effort he put into the campaign. He is also more geared to an academic style of debating than the more free-style street brawl type of debate that Trump is accustomed to being in and winning. Trump has about 25 years on Cruz, and it showed - he just out-strategized Cruz. Once Cruz didn’t win most of the South on Super Tuesday, I knew that it was over - and Cruz should have, as well. He’d have been very able to work out a fantastic deal at that point, and the Party would be thoroughly unified by this point. FYI, Trump is no intellectual slouch at all (how else do you turn a $1 million loan into a couple $billion before inheriting anything?), just not a bookworm type of intellect - his is a practical intellect.
I regret that the 2 of them got into such a bad squabble - Cruz would’ve made a great Veep for Trump, and would have not only been able to steer Trump a bit more to the Right, but also to prepare to succeed Trump and finish off the entitled class and the Socialists. Can you imagine 16 years of these 2 guys in charge? Oh, well, it simply wasn’t fated to be.
But now is the time to forget about our in-house squabble - it is over, and we all must concentrate upon defeating Hillary and the Dems. THEY are the domestic enemies that the Founders spoke of - they have been engaged in a counter-revolution against the principles and the nation that the Founders bequeathed to us. Let’s face that circular firing squad in the other direction.