[TheRealThing]

Dr. Piper, as president of a Christian university, has an obligation to look out for the interests of the students with whose welfare he is charged. He did not say that he would not welcome Trump to the campus. What he said was that he would not provide the chapel as a venue for Trump to deliver a political message.

BTW, are you aware that Trump told a reporter, "I am Presbyterian Protestant. I go to Marble Collegiate Church," and Marble then released a statement that Trump was not an "active member?" Trump seems to have much in common with Bill Clinton. I hate to see politicians mischaracterize their religious practice for political gain. Especially when that same politician has questioned the sincerity of both Ted Cruz's and Ben Carson's religious beliefs.

I am concerned that so many Republicans who were troubled by Obama's associations with people like Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, Louis Farrakhan, Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, and many other shady characters, are showing very little interest in learning about Trump's shady associates.

In September 2015, Trump explained that he wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a single payer healthcare plan. In other words, what Trump is proposing is to have the government put the private sector out of the medical insurance business. Trump expressed support for Obamacare in one of his books. Yet, today Trump is touring Iowa calling Cruz a liar for saying that Trump supported Obamacare. Why are Trump supporters ignoring his plan to impose a Canadian style nationalized healthcare system to replace Obamacare?

Hopefully, Cruz will win Iowa Monday night and buy some time for people to tire of Trump's childish behavior and learn more about his record before he locks up the nomination. If not, it is very possible that Trump will lose the general election to a very weak Democrat candidate. Polls indicate as many as 50 percent of the Republicans who are opposed to Trump would and not support him in the general election. I am sure that most of those voters will change eventually support Trump but what if 20 percent of Republicans refuse to vote for Trump in the general election? It could happen and I believe that it is likely to happen if Trump is the nominee.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Trump has the highest unfavorable rating (60%) since polling began in 1992 - higher than Hillary Clinton and much higher than Bernie Sanders. Ben Carson has the lowest unfavorable rating since 1992 and Sanders, Cruz, and Rubio also have unfavorables that rank among the lowest four during the past 24 years. Trump's unfavorable rating is double Carson's and it is Trump's own fault. You cannot run an unscrupulous campaign for the nomination without giving any thought about the campaign's effect on the general election if you are your party's nominee.

Eventually, Trump will pay the price for his sleazy campaign. It is much harder to raise a candidate's favorable ratings than it is to run a reasonably clean campaign to avoid cannibalizing your own popularity ratings. Trump is lucky that he did not run in 2012 because Obama would have destroyed him in the general election.

I'm not saying that there is not a wealth of negative information floating around on the internet about Donald Trump. One of Trump's most staunch critics is Glen Beck, who I believe made a hard right into the twilight zone when he was converted to Mormonism. The true story of how the leader of the Mormon faith, Joseph Smith, came to his divine revelations is a bit of an eye opener to say the least.

From my perspective, most of the Trump flak is unsubstantiated and unfair. Like you I can name those of seedy repute who are known cohorts of Mr Obama. I can't seem to name any for Trump though, and if he is or will in fact, push for a single payer health care system why has Cruz not taken him to task? I mean, it is certainly not for lack of opportunity, as it has been flame on between them since the end of the bromance. I have seen charges made online that suggest Trump will try to initiate a single payer system, but I've yet to see anything credible to substantiate that. At any rate, revelations of that sort are what the primary season is all about. One would have thought a Jeb Bush or a Mike Huckabee would have brought all this to light by now.


Dr Piper is the one who initiated this whole deal of reaching out from obscurity and the innards of Wesleyan's ivy covered and hallowed halls to diminish Trump. So protecting his students was a non factor. He wanted to slam 'the Donald' and he did, just as sensationally as his imagination would permit.

None the less if what you say is true, the rest of the field has an obligation to reveal things like that to the public.