[TheRealThing]

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.

I understand your argument, though I did not yet catch Trump's birther argument admission. Regrettably, I may have given you the wrong impression. I never thought for a second that Cruz may not be eligible to be President, but I would not be shocked if some uber liberal Harvard Law School prof filed. I would just prefer the smoke to clear before the primary voting begins.

In cutting to the chase I will say this, America is only as good as her people. And her people are only as good as are the dictates of their own consciences. My fear, and my contentions have been based in concerns over public servants putting their own interests over the well being of the country.

Cruz said last evening, that even given the uproar we have seen among the people of late, we still don't know the half of it. And given the number of RINO's lurking around in elephant clothes, even in the face of a great awakening the deck is still stacked against us. I don't know if you saw "The Matrix Trilogy," but if you did, I sort of feel like we're about to have our Morpheus moment. You know, that point in time when we may have to admit we have been chasing something that has been gone for a long time? The dream which is a free nation governed by it's citizenry, is only possible under a pretty narrow set of circumstances. We to survive, must be a moral people.

Our problem today, is that we seem to think we have outgrown our need for an adherence to the Godly principles of the past which, I refer to as our traditionally conservative heritage. Our system of law is founded upon the very Christian principles that we have abandoned. And as a result we have lost both the authority and the charter to run our own affairs. That is why according to Charles Swindoll, we Americans end the lives of 4,383 unborn children every single day of the year. And I would suggest that is why a loon the likes of Bernie Sanders can make a credible run at the Presidency. I mean, setting aside the fact that the whole process is a manufactured abstraction in deceit, we are still left with the fact that he has tremendous support among voters. Which settles in definitive fashion the debate about 'takers' BTW.

In other words, if man chooses to honor his own ideas of right and wrong over the clear teachings of God, we get arguments, factions and special interest groups. Laws become laughably permeated with loopholes for the privileged, and you get civil unrest. And it can only get worse from there, because apart from dictates from above, lawyers will never quit distorting and arguing. And as present circumstances reveal, settled law based on absolutes is far better than the chaos and writhing of present day.

In a different thread I recently said that picking the right man could afford us a reprieve. To see our Republic return again to function the way it did in the Reagan years would be a gift by any definition in my book. The personal integrity that enabled so many great patriots, and provided the basis for God's blessing on this land, is that thing that Martin Luther King talked about back in 1963. "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

The content of the American character is failing, and it is due to only one thing. Most Americans outgrew God. Something always rushes in to fill a vacuum, in our case sobriety and sanity has been replaced by self indulgence and insanity.

I will take Ted Cruz any day, and I will accept the straight shooting of Trump any day. But let us make no mistake, if the rainbows and unicorns are ever to reappear, it will be the result of only one thing having happened: 2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

The problem is with the Church. Christians are those who are His people, and it is they who are called by His name. Therefore it is the Church, who must humble themselves, pray, turn from their wicked ways, and then will He hear from heaven and heal their land.

If the Church responds things should level off for a least a while. If not these are just the machinations of the end time.