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...
//Jude 1:18-19
In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires. 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit./
Very apt description of Cruz. Thank you.
(By the way, have you ever met Dale Guthrie?)
“His twisted logic implies he has pedophile tendencies. When he was 29 his third and present wife was only 5!”
Ant THAT bit of twisted “logic” has convinced me that you are really Glenn Beck.
Bravo !!
Recommendations and op Ed’s do not confirm a nomination. A nomination endorsed by Congress.
All Trump's gotta do is have Lewinsky sitting in the fron row next to someone in a prison jumpsuit. Debate over. Lol.
But as a strategy it obviously didn't work. That that the bible belt found Trumps bombast more appealing is a testament to how p*ssed off people are., which reflects on the utter failure of the GOP in representing its voters over the past several decades.
But the pendulum has swung way too far the other way with some of these folks, they are alienating allies they need, and that will never end well.
Do you mean the The Cowardly Lion? I agree that the contest between Trump and the GOPe and Hillary Clinton has many interesting parallels with McKinley vs. Bryan, with the exception that, unlike the Cowardly Lion, The Donald can bite, and will bite hard.
Fantastic write up
I gave up Steve Desde for Lent.
Is he still a Cruz slappy?
I think there was nothing wrong with Cruz having recommended him. It was said at the time that he was a stealth candidate because so little was known about his conservative /liberal beliefs.
It becomes an issue because Cruz has been repeatedly stating that he is the only candidate in the 2016 election that can be trusted to make conservative supreme court nominations. One of Ted’s problems is that he gets folk’s backs up, which is what he has done in this case. He certainly could have talked about all the things he would look for in a judicial pick and looked very creditable, but he wanted to attack Trump, and in doing so, he succeeded only in making himself look foolish.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz
......his personality grates on me.
Think Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the classic “street kid” from Brooklyn/Queens. He is brash, loud and obnoxious, but he’s true blue American, and he will never back down. He was raised Presbyterian and went through Confirmation class. That makes him even more sure of himself (he’s already saved in is mind). He grew up in Norman Vincent Peale’s church. Power of Positive Thinking has got him where he is. Someday they will make a great movie about his life.
FWIW, I was voting Cruz until he threw Trump under the bus saying he caused the violence at the Friday night rally. When he didn’t show the intestinal fortitude to blame the RIOTERS for the riots, he was eliminated.
I’m in Ohio.
So tell me what leftist ideas Cruz has?
I never said Ted voted for Roberts.
He did support him and bring him into the Bush “family” though.
Did you read the link I posted with Ted’s oped pushing Roberts?
I think it is reasonable to question Ted’s judgement on someone he knew and worked with.
Freepers only knew what others, including Ted, said about Roberts. None of of knew and worked with him.
I assume this is he actually speaking: William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech I have no way of being sure though, because I have never really heard him speak.
//I just don’t like the guy./
Years ago, MrR and I got into a huge argument about Glen Beck. I couldn’t stand him and couldn’t put my finger on why I just didn’t like him or trust him. Then I found out he was Mormon.
Same with Cruz. Then things started to add up and the other day I realized he is a political televangelist.
I have the perfect solution. All along Cruz has been my first choice, Trump second, but we need Trump & Cruz to come together somehow to beat off the establishment that is hell bent on picking our candidate and ignoring the voters.
Most likely, Trump has already promised Christie the Atty General spot. Cruz will never leave his Senate seat to be his VP, but I have no doubt he would accept Tump picking him as his Supreme Court candidate to replace Scalia. I would be very happy with this outcome and I think most conservatives would support it. It’s a win-win!
The added benefit is our Texas Governor, Gregg Abbott, would pick a true conservative to finish Cruz’s Senate term. Thoughts?
Ping
More evidence that Cruz speaking up in support for BLM and Move-On protesters hurt him at the polls Tuesday.
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