Posted on 03/17/2016 9:46:49 AM PDT by dps.inspect
I live in Missouri, the state Trump won by less than 2,000 (the last I heard). I had been saying all along that I’d be voting for Ted Cruz, mainly because he says he’s a Christian. But on the day of our election this week, I could not do it, I voted for Trump... knowing full well his foibles. Here’s the short story of my transformation:
I am a Christian man in my sixties, have not always been the best I could be, either as a man or a Christian, but I do try, sometimes. Months and even years back I saw Cruz as one of the only ones in DC who was standing for what I believe; I thought then, if he runs for POTUS, he’s got my vote. However, the more I’ve heard him speak, the less I've liked him, not because of the content of what he says, he says mostly the right things, but its the way in which he says them... inauthentic, insincere, disingenuous; these are words that describe my emotions when I see the expression on his face when he speaks, and then there’s that stupid little half-smile after he says a one line-er to applause... ick!
Right up until the day of the election, Tuesday, I had never really understood how instrumental Cruz was in giving us John Roberts, Chief Justice of the supreme court (the man that literally delivered Obamacare to the nation as law). The day of our election, I looked up an article from a Texas news/paper/mag, that railed on Cruz because he was one of the biggest voices selling John Roberts to the nation. Unfortunately for Cruz, I read that article before voting on Tuesday... that is mostly what sealed the deal, against voting for him.
Cruz may be a moral man, but the devil used him to help sink our nation to where we are today; moral maybe, but not wise. Why the hell would I want that man in the White House.
Comparatively, Trump is not what I'd call a moral man, at least by biblical standards, but we know that about him, its a given... he’s not trying to gloss over his, well, fallenness; he is what he is... I dumped Cruz for Trump. I made that decision within about two hours before I voted. It's not easy to explain but I felt a sense of freedom when I voted for Trump. My brother who is a Baptist pastor was nearly apoplectic when I told him I voted for Trump, he wanted me to feel very,very guilty, but I don’t, I actually feel quite good about it.
Adding to that, there is the "inbetween-the-lines" reasons that swung me to Trump. The biggest? All the entities that we conservatives and Christians see as our mortal opposition, the MSM, DC Elite, Republican Establishment, Liberal Progressives, Black Lives Matter, and now, Fox News have been trying to destroy Trump... "the enemy (Trump) of my enemy (the above noted) is my friend". I know their hatred of me and all that I hold dear, so when I see them descend on Trump with the same ferocity that I know they hold toward me and my kind, I count Trump as my kind. And now out of desperation, Ted Cruz seems to be siding with the enemy, not my kind... phooey on that!
Trump is not claiming Messiahship, like Obama does, and like Ted seems to imply (the savior of Conservatism), Trump is Trump! And you know what, I like that... as brash and unsavory as he may seem, compared to the PC Elites, Trump is more like me than anything I have seen!
It felt good to vote for Trump... I feel like a feminist freed from her bra strap, free at last, free at last...
yup. Go through my posts always do.
And although Reagan wasn’t a Catholic, in the eyes of the Catholic Church he was always validly married to Nancy.
ONE MORE thought for your choice, you made the right decision Trump has a lot of flaws, but look at his kids they are just amazing people!! Those kids are a lifetime of being a dad they are a MIRROR of the TRUE MAN, thank you again my friend for your vote!!!!!
My problem with Constitution “expert” Cruz is that he went to Harvard Law School, the same school that Obama, Justices Roberts, Ginsburg, Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer, and Kagan went to.
And with the exception of Justice Scalia (RIP) and Cruz, none of these people seem to have respect for either the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, or 10th Amendment-protected state powers.
In fact, FReepers probably know more about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers and the 10th Amendment then the Harvard people refereced above do.
An while I’ll admit that Trump is a constitutionally low-information candidate imo, I regard him as a true patriot who can quickly get up to speed with the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
So while Trump doesn’t yet know the feds limited powers, Cruz has probaby been wrongly taught about those powers.
And then something began to change. For me it was in mid-February following the several debates that had been conducted. I noted what I would call a "sanctemoniousness" about Ted Cruz. I knew, and I still want to believe, that Ted is a conservative, but for the first time I began to seriously ask myself why he has no friends, within the party or without.
More and more I found myself thinking, "I agree with this guy, but I sure don't like him." It's similar to the way I feel sometimes when I read a really good book, but then I see an interview with the author; the content was good, but I sure wouldn't want to have coffee with the writer.
As well, more and more I realized that the Canadian issue was not resolved (as I had previously thought it was). I know the way the other side operates, especially when they have gotten away with something. Obama, who was most certainly NOT born in America, has now served, not one, but two, terms. They will take all that they learned in protecting him, to assault Cruz. His sealing of his records did him no favor.
In the transition I have begun to listen more closely to what Trump is saying, and though I knew and know he is not a "true conservative" I, nevertheless, find myself agreeing with ALL of his key points (border wall, trade imbalance, Common Core, etc.). And the very thing others hold against him, I now see as his strength. When specifically asked (again and again) if he is a conservative (as a label), he answers with what his conservative postions are. No dancing around them; simple to the point: "I will...".
So, like you my friend, I also now find myself a realist and a pragmatist. We are not electing a pastor, we are electing a President. I think Trump is the by far the best choice for where America finds itself in 2016.
You said it far more eloquently than I, but it feels good to get it off my chest anyway.
I forgot to add the John Roberts support.
Blaming Trump for the violent anti-Trump disruptors.
Blaming Trump for white racist rob-calls. We don’t even know if there actually were these calls.
Saying that Ben Carson dropped out of the race, when he could have checked with Ben.
Yes, me as well... I say a no vote in the general is a vote for Hitlery.
Thank you. Trump may not have all the conservative scorecard boxes checked right but he has the trust of We the People in the fight against the ruling class.
Yes. It’s an unfair comparison, of course. It’s just that perspective is real hard to come by these days, not to mention an awareness of history.
According to a 2005 Sun-Sentinel report, Cruz once praised Roberts as "one of the best constitutional minds in the country."
Cruz reportedly made that comment while explaining why, as a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he brought Roberts to Florida to assist with his team's legal battle over the controversial post-election recount.
And as the Texas Tribune reported three years ago, when Bush nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz "was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him 'brilliant' and a 'lawyer's lawyer.'"
Business Insider Ted Cruz Bashing Roberts After Years of Praise
In July 2005, Cruz, who was then Texas solicitor general, wrote an oped for The National Review defending Roberts from detractors who worried about his conservative bonafides: As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice [William] Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department.
But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.
The Senate should confirm him swiftly.
Cruz also took credit for bringing Roberts into the fold of the George W. Bush campaign, when they needed someone to defend them in Bush v. Gore.
To recommend someone and to actually vote in a conformation, is really pushing the lie. Cruz had nothing to do with Roberts becoming a Justice. As I said, Freepers loved Roberts for all of the times he did stop the leftist’s ideas. But your tactics is what is done by the left.
A lie goes around the world before truth gets up in the morning
I am hoping you don’t see anyone as Messiah material, there is only one, as I am sure you agree, and he is not back yet.
I will not criticize your vote, as this is a personal decision that you have come to.
My concern continues to be that I really don’t know what Trumps core values are. The things that he will not waver or change over. I am not being mean here, but the one thing I have seem him stand unwavering for is eminent domain. He has been consistent on that throughout his life. Maybe I would be too if I was a developer. That is my concern. If Donald Trump is elected I will be praying your view of him turns out to be the correct one.
I agree. That is what turns me off. Faith in the Lord is too important to be used as a tool to win an election. Using it that way gives me doubt about the sincerity of the person.
“And although Reagan wasn’t a Catholic, in the eyes of the Catholic Church he was always validly married to Nancy.”
He had been validly married to Jane Wyman, so I don’t see how you can say that. Reagan did not ask the Catholic Church to validate his marriage.
I look VERY FORWARD to him coming back in two years also, and telling all of you with a YUGE smile on his face, SEE I TOLD YOU SO, all you doubters WERE WRONG and I made the RIGHT decision!!!
I like Cruz. I don’t like his heavy emphasis on religion. If you have to tell somebody you are a Christian then something is amiss. That being said I think Cruz would be better than Trump as president. Him supporting Roberts and getting blamed on the back end? Really how many FR conservatives supported Roberts? A bunch, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Cruz being demonized because he doesn’t work and play well with others in the senate is a non-starter with me and right out of the liberal GOPE playbook of being crybabies. Some people on here are complaining because Cruz called McConnell and those other cowards out. People on here cheered when he went up against the liberals in the senate and now that makes him unlikable and a bad, old mean person, seriously are we in kindergarten. Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade and the person doing the calling out is always demonized by the lethargic turds being called out and their friends.
That being said I haven’t been a big on denouncing Trump because he has said and is saying lots of things that needed to be said a long-long time ago and I realize Trump could be the nominee and more than likely will be. Come November if Trump is the nominee I can vote for Trump easily.
If Trump is elected I hope you are correct. This is one time I would love to be wrong.
He is not Jehu....
....he is King Cyrus
I’ve thought that from the beginning
Of course, now that I’ve gotten to know him,
he’s also Churchill, John Wayne, William Wallace, and Superman!
That’s why I voted for him!
Amen to that!
..... the MSM, DC elite, Republican Establishment, Liberal Progressive, Black Lives Matter and now Fox News have been trying to destroy Trump.
From up Canada way, I am not trying to interfere with a purely American political struggle. What I would like to comment on is an enormous juggernaut. I have not seen or heard the likes of this in my lifetime. I do not include WW2.
On the CBC Radio in Canada this morning I heard a shrieking female voice. Described as a "Pakistani American". Bashing Trump of course. The urbane voices of smug Canadians joining in the bashing. Then to the television and my spouse had on "The View". More Trump bashing. This on the nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. What I am trying to say and please excuse my rant on your vanity is this.
Something Orwellian and scary here. The immense resources of the MSM trying everything. Lies, conjecture, Hitler comparisons. This when the good old First Amendment allows for constructive, acerbic, criticism. Just to destroy one human being- Donald Trump.
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