Donald Trump's Political Stroke of Genius : GOP Debate Apology to Ted Cruz and Scalia! (VANITY)

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2015-12-15 @ 11:45-AM-EST

Donald Trump,
2016 United States Presidential Candidate

Executive Summary: Increase Your Political Capital with a Friendly Apology to Ted Cruz and SCOTUS Justice Anthony Scalia at tonight's GOP Presidential Debate

Sir,

First, THANKS from "all" American Patriots as you've Kicked-Down the socialistic door of Political Correctness.

Second ... We THANK you for your Pattonesqe courage in bringing Illegal Immigation and Islamic Jihad to the the attention of the American people.

Finally ... THANK YOU for effectively shutting down the GOPe-RINO Jeb Bush-John Kasisch-Karl Rove corrupt "Washington Cartel" in this crucial 2016 election cycle.

Mr. Donald Trump, ALL great leaders (Washington, Churchill, Patton, Ted Cruz and yourself) MUST have the capacity of listen to "genuinely" good advice ...

I believe that Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin are trying to HELP your campaign as they've discussed your recent remarks about Ted Cruz and Anthony Scalia.

Help you -- NOT politically harm you.

Why ?

So that WE Americans can DEFEAT the Jeb Bush GOPe-RINO "Corrupt Washington Cartel" ... and then DEFEAT Hillary Clinton in 2016.

This "episode" is Your First True Character Test as a major Presidential Candidate.

I pray that God blesses you with the Divine Wisdom to heed this advice, presented in the best of good faith.

I predict that you will THEN reap INCREDIBLE political rewards after an apology ...

Sincerely,

Douglas A. Coggeshall
Aerospace Mechanical Engineer
American Evangelical Christian and Tea Party Patriot

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The very same, so imagine I said this to your probate judge when you applied for a license to carry?

You look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino, its given a seriousness to this crisis, that people are looking for:

Who is prepared to carry a concelled weapon?

Who understands the threats one may face?

Who am I comfortable having their finger on the trigger?

Now thats a question of strength, but its also a question of judgment.

And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for Mr. Defiant.

Would you feel, in essence, I was suggesting that the probate judge would need to assess that, not that I have.

I see no comparison between this situation and 1964. The world is a different place. The state run media no longer has a monopoly on information. They are now competing with hundreds of news sources, blogs, talk radio, and networks. And the people who do vote, are frankly far better informed today, than when ABC/CBS/NBC controlled the narrative. Hillary is going to have to run defensively. She has no accomplishments, and only scandals in her past. She cannot run as a woman of peace, or as someone strong enough to defeat ISIS. She cannot even run on diplomacy as her time as SOS was a major disaster. Her irrational outbursts are legendary, and so she can’t even campaign as the more reasonable choice. Splash a little water of truth on her and she will melt.

What Cruz said, again in a PRIVATE fundraiser, is in no way an attack. Calling someone a maniac on a national tv interview is an attack. And the fact that he borrowed progressive talking points shows very poor judgment - as pointed out by Limbaugh, Levin and others. The left is going to be nasty no matter what. What both candidates must remember is that they stand no chance to win if they alienate the Conservative grassroots. If they don’t get them motivated, its over. Calling the biggest champion for Conservative principles in the Senate a maniac does not make Trump look more appealing. It reinforces an opinion that he is like many progressives, who will do and say whatever it takes to win.

Suggesting you are more qualified to be POTUS than the competition is simply a contrast. I will stick to that assessment unless someone produces audio or video proof beyond what the article quotes. I have heard Cruz speak often, and noted that he has rarely attacked his competition, including Trump, even when it was the popular thing to do.

We should not fear Hillary at all. You nominate any decent Conservative and she will lose in a landslide. She is not even liked in her own party, although the devout left would vote for Satan if he was on the ticket. Instead, they will have to settle for one of his minions.

The only way the GOP loses is if Trump’s ego gets the best of him and he pulls a Perot, going 3rd party. I am personally eager to see the field dramatically shrink and see a substantive debate between Trump and Cruz. I think only good could come from that scenario.

St_Thomas_Aquinas wrote: “Well, we know that he*s never asked God for forgiveness.”

84 posted on 12/15/2015, 1:28:26 PM by Patton@Bastogne: “and that remark by Donald Trump, frankly, scares the hell out of me ... “

And it should, Patton. I do not know how much of Norman Vincent Peale's “power of positive thinking” stuff Trump has internalized, but he clearly is acting externally in accord with the “gospel of success” he learned in Marble Collegiate Church.

(I'm sending this to the GRPL Great Reformed Ping List because it has direct reference to the Dutch Reformed background of Donald Trump, something which will be relevant in Iowa but has been forgotten by most if not all of the national media.)

I'm willing to vote for a non-evangelical. The biblical standards for civil rulers are not the same as those for church office. King David was not deposed for his actions in the sphere of the civil magistrate, but would have had to be deposed for his actions in the sphere of the church.

Trump is better than a number of options on the Republican side, and far better than any of the Democratic options.

But if Trump becomes the conservative candidate of choice, we're going to have to have a long, hard discussion about how a man who grew up under the politically conservative and pro-business preaching of Norman Vincent Peale can interact with the Christian conservative base of the Republican Party.

Let's be fair. Trump grew up in what, by the standards of upper-class elite New York City society of the time, was a fairly conservative church. I know more than a bit about what it was like to be in elite upper-class Protestantism of the era when Trump was growing up. I know the Reformed Church in America quite well; even in its liberal East Coast regional synods, the RCA of that era was not really a traditional liberal Protestant denomination, though it has become so in more recent years. In the days before the demographic collapse of the mainline denominations and the rise of the modern evangelical movement, mainline churches were sometimes surprisingly biblical in what got taught by average members in Sunday School even if the preaching was problematic. And again, Marble Collegiate Church, by the standards of post-World War II New York City, was NOT a liberal church. It was not evangelical, but Trump's family could have found far worse places to worship.

I am prepared to believe that Trump understands at least something of what the Reformed Church in America taught in the Heidelberg Catechism. Maybe his “positive Christianity” isn't as bad as it sounds to Midwestern Reformed or Southern Bible Belt ears.

But Trump will have to do a lot to prove he's at least aware of what it means to be a Christian, let alone an evangelical Protestant.

I am not stupid. Neither is Trump. You do not win Iowa as a conservative Republican without spending a LOT of time in places like Northwest Iowa and Pella, where the RCA and CRC and other Dutch Reformed denominations remain strong. Trump will be asked MANY questions about his personal faith due to his background in the RCA.

Dutch Iowa farmers are not stupid either. They understand what the RCA is and will give Trump allowances for looseness. He's not a Baptist and can't be held to Southern Evangelical standards.

But a lot of Iowa “VanderSomethings” will see through Trump real fast if he's trying to sell snake oil to evangelicals. It might work some places, but it won't work in Iowa for a man with an RCA background.

I think a lot of Iowa Baptists and Iowa charismatics and Iowa nondenominational church leaders are on the phone to their Dutch friends asking, “You've talked to Trump. He's from your world. What do you think of him?”

The answers from people whose names start with Vander- or end with -stra, -sma, or -ga may have a lot to do with Trump's rise or fall in Iowa.

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