Even More Choose Ted Cruz

It’s good to be in great conservative company.

Steve King, Steve Deace, and Rick Perry, Dana Rohrabacher
(my Congressman when I was a kid), Tom McClintock (another great Congressman,
and my choice for Governor during the 2003 California Total Recall): what do
they all have in common?

They understand the threats—immanent and existential—posed
by illegal immigration.

They vote against Big Government spending sprees, but
support a common defense and promote the general welfare. Indeed, they regard
the United States Constitution as a charter of clear and convincing mandates,
not a bunch of ephemeral suggestions which the President can push aside with a
phone and pen.

What else do they all have in common?

They choose Ted Cruz to be the Republican nominee and the
next President of the United States.

I have so much respect for the above mentioned, that I would
also vote for them to be President. Conservative, and consistently so.

The current front-runner has been burning up the polls, and
for months.

 I would not call
myself Trump-o-phobic, but he simply is not my first choice.

Yes, I want a great big wall along the Southern border, with
a beautiful door in the middle. I want someone with some business savvy, who
knows how to manipulate the media and expand the Republican brand. I want a
President who has lead more than a crowd of miscreants in Chicago.

But when the next President goes to Washington, I do not
want him to move on “Let’s make a deal.”

With this trait in mind, let us recall that Donald announced
following: “I’ll
make deals with Democrats.”

Two words came to mind: “You’re Fired!”

I want the next President to stare down every Congressman,
and every Senator (Republican and Democrat), take out the Constitution and
declare: “This is the deal.”

Forget “The Apprentice” (and Scott Walker was right: we don’t
need an apprentice in the White House). I am thinking more along the lines of “Deal
or No Deal”.  (And no, I do not want
Howie Mandel to run for Chief Executive. Great guy, but definitely born in
Canada, and better served working the comedy clubs in Hollywood.)

My fellow Americans, let us recognize that the Presidency is
not a game.

It’s not a pep rally. It’s not a high school football
tournament.

It’s also more, so much more than a business venture.

Our country, and the values which America stands for—they are
at stake. Understandably, Franklin Graham broke away from the GOP, and not just
because they voted to keep funding Planned Murderhood.

This country needs revival or there will be no survival of
the American Dream.

We need to take Graham’s latest pronouncements seriously:
This country is very near the tipping point (granted, another sport’s term, but
you know what I mean). We don’t have time for demagogues who boast: “I could
shoot somebody and not lose votes.” Sorry, but leadership is about more than
self. Would that we found a Presidential contender like George Washington, who
resisted the high calling of Chief Executive, yet took it.

So for me, the closest candidate that I know of who can
fight with dignity, with foresight to tell the truth and guide the country. . .
I choose Ted Cruz. He was not my first choice only because I wanted the requisite
executive experience of a Governor. Yet his record in the US Senate and before
that as Texas’ Solicitor General commands enough respect for me.

Even more people agree and have endorsed him.

Hopefully, more Americans will vote for him in the months to
come.

He’s a fighter, holding onto his campaign warchest until
now. Unlike other contenders, Cruz has pulled off the gloves and reminded everyone
of Trump’s litany of liberal positions. From abortion to gay marriage, to gun control
and even immigration, Trump has more 180’s then a Harlem Globetrotter
basketball. Don’t like my spin? Don’t blame me. I am putting more of Trump’s
New York Values on display.

And that last debate. Finally, someone pushed back at the
real estate mogul. Trump met his match, and it was glorious!

More good news: like a frump, Donald
Trump is going to dump the last GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses. He
doesn’t like Megyn Kelly, and thinks that the Fox News moderators were unfair
to him last August. Why would he complain? He gave one of the best lines at the
first debate and came out stronger, at least on the surface. “Only Rosie O’Donnell.
. .”

Then again, major news organizations rely on spurious
polling and cut out good candidates from the first tier forums. At the last
debate, Rand Paul failed to make the cut, but instead of throwing a pity party,
Paul opened up his Twitter feed to questions from the national public and his
supporters. He won the undercard by not playing at all.

So Trump won’t play because he thinks the playing field isn’t
fair. Fine with me. His abrupt decision to jump the last debate will leave my
favorite in first place on that stage.

You know who.