[Hoot Gibson]

You're actually comparing Trump to Obama? Trump is right to point out that Democrats are threatening to sue Cruz over the eligibility question, and he's doing Cruz a favor in forcing him out in front of it now before it can hurt his primary chances. And let us not forget that it is the Dems who are making the threat, not Trump. Trump has done us all a favor in fact, the so-called anger of the voter if you ask me is more about the mealy mouthing ambiguities, cowardice in high places in the face of negotiations, and fading financial well being of the middle class more than anything else. And if not for Trump we'd still be doing the Potomac Two Step to the same old politically correct dirges on the debate stage and elsewhere. Is Rubio lying, or does Cruz team up with Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul to vote against Military spending bills?

Not to mention that where Hillary is concerned, Trump deflated her (and Billy Boy I might add) right off the bat. Nobody's perfect, and I'm not trying to diminish Cruz. And in saying that, you mention 7 years of tyranny about which you know I am in agreement. I am just as concerned about the 7 years of military abuses and foes that are up on their nuclear high horses. This is not the time to keep slashing and downsizing the military.

Yes, I see many parallels between Trump and Obama. Neither one seems to have much interest in the truth or the Constitution. Both have "yuge" egos. Obama wears out the words "I," "my," and "me." Trump has spent most of his adult life stamping his own name on as many buildings as possible. Trump doesn't use the personal pronouns to the same extent as Obama, but he does use the royal "we" quite a bit. Neither Trump nor Obama had any presidential qualifications when they decided that what the country really needed was themselves in the White House.

I see absolutely no similarities between Reagan and Trump, to whom The Donald is so fond of comparing himself. Reagan believed deeply in our Constitution and spent two successful terms as governor of the nation's largest state. Compared to Trump, Reagan was a very humble man who was slow to anger and personally liked by most of his political adversaries. Trump? Not so much.

After fraudulently claiming for days that he was just answering a journalist's question about Cruz's eligibility, Trump did finally take ownership of the attacks last night. Trump is not doing Cruz any favors with his slimy campaign. Cruz and most other top constitutional lawyers know that he is eligible.

Think about it. If Cruz is not eligible, then McCain was not eligible and no child born on foreign soil to an American woman in the U.S. military is eligible to be president either. Does that really make sense to you? It seems like a silly proposition to me. I despise McCain but there was never any doubt in my mind that he was eligible to be president.

I do not plan to post here much during the primary season. I am getting the same queasy feeling when I watch Trump speak as I do when I listen to Obama. He is an extremely polarizing figure who only has a shot to win the presidency because of his wealth, name recognition (the Trump "brand") and because Democrats have saddled themselves with such bad candidates. Everybody has to make up his or her mind about which camp they are in and I am not going to try to persuade my friends here to oppose Trump's bid.

Eventually, I expect that this country will succumb to a totalitarian dictatorship with sham elections but I refuse to support a man who may jump at that opportunity. Obama has personally insulted and used the resources of the federal government to harass his enemies for more than seven years. The precedent for an imperial presidency has been set. Trump is a scary character, IMO, and I do not see him any more willing to respect the constitutional power of Congress than Obama has been.

Trump's dumbed down campaign rhetoric and strong poll numbers makes wonder if the movie Idiocracy really might have been a prophetic glimpse into the future.