[WideRight05]

Not twisting your words at all. Just going by what you are saying. How do you know I don't condemn some of Trumps associates? You don't. You made an assumption and you were wrong. Just like thinking I care about polls. Wrong again. I care about results not polls. For someone not wasting their time you sure are doing a lot of it. It really is this simple to me, I support who I want too support and you support whomever you want. I said 6 months ago none of these candidates are worthy of being president, look it up if you so desire but over the course I made up my mind who I think will bring the economy back and who I think will take care of the immigration problem. I believe it will be Trump, you are free to believe whatever you like. I just get on here for fun because of all the whining. Also, I'm not ready for one term senators who hasn't really accomplished that much. If they had, they would be running on that. We've had that type of person for the last 7 years. Also just an FYI, when you want to insult me, using HC football won't do it, I haven't lived there for several years now.

Of course I have a clue but it's much more fun to see you whine and moan. You and wide right are so butt hurt today you need ointment. You guys are fun to get all worked up. Really you should join the Trump train, Cruz is now dead in the water. He took the wrong side last night after the protest. I thought he was supposed to be this big constitution defender but he takes the side of someone violating someone else's free speech. Can't trust a snake. Choo choo Hoot hear that train coming?? nicker:

You were very quick to call Ted Cruz out on a pastor he associated with. Why not hold Trump to the same standard? You still haven’t answered my question. I asked you to show me where Donald Trump has been consistent. Outside of immigration and a couple of economic areas he has been all over the place. You all Hoot Gibson out for whining, but which is worse? Someone who “whines” because their points are being contested with petty insults, or someone who makes themselves look like a cult follower that can only put together a talking point provided by their master?

I can agree with Trump on a few issues. For one, the problem with political correctness. He cam into this race and changed the entire tone by taking that and the media head-on. I can respect that because he helped play a key role in wiping out a couple of the establishment candidates like Jeb Bush that catered to that. The second, he took illegal immigration and changed it from an issue that Republicans with the exception of Cruz were scared to bring up to where many of the more moderate Republicans have tried to shift their centrist views further to the right on that issue.

You were never a big establishment guy from what I remembered, but prior to Trump almost all of us had the same conclusions on Cruz. What changed? Cruz went from being the guy that many of us thought wouldn’t win, but almost all of us non-establishment guys were hoping would pull it out. He had a deep respect with many of us on this website because of how he took a stand against McConnell and the Republican establishment. Now all of a sudden he’s “lying Ted?” Much of what former Cruz supporters are slinging on him now are talking points from Donald Trump.

Remember in 2008 when Barack Obama ran how his supporters called anything and everything that didn’t agree with him racist? Do you think that was good for the country? Trump and his supporters are doing exactly what Barack Obama’s supporters did eight and four years ago. I realize the Republicans need to send a tough guy and not somebody that will cave in to the media or political correctness. I just think Trump takes it overboard.

Cruz has made his share of mistakes – him, Rubio, and Kasich aren’t innocent by any means. These are politicians, and at the end of the day they are out to cut each other’s throats in doing anything possible to get elected. For example, I do agree with TRT that Cruz has twisted some of Trump’s statements. Trump has also twisted Cruz’s statements – it goes both ways. As with Rubio and Kasich, they have done the same thing. It’s not right, but it’s something that happens with politics. I choose the most consistent candidate I can find when it comes to the issues. Cruz has consistently stood up to the establishment.

It also amazes me, an issue with how serious many of us on here take the issue of abortion. I do believe Donald Trump is pro-life with exceptions of rape, incest, and life of the mother as he has stated. But it hasn’t been much of a priority to him that we have murdered well over 50 million unborn babies since 1973. In addition, show me where he has prioritized electing conservative justices not just to the SCOTUS where all eyes are right now, but to the appeals courts and to some of the lower courts. That I think would be a major downfall. Trump is very likely to choose somebody with more of a centrist record to run for those courts, and if he plans on reforming immigration then he should be ready to defend that in court. Out of Ronald Reagan’s picks for SCOTUS justices, two of the three (Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy) ended up going to the center and sometimes to the left on issues.

I’m not going to lose sleep if Ted Cruz doesn’t win this. Our society has just gone too far with this nonsense to the point where it will be nearly impossible to turn it back now. I’m sick of the Republicans sending moderates, and that is exactly what they are sending with Trump.

I was just messing with you over the comment about Harlan County football. If I wanted to insult you I would mess with your intelligence since you haven’t shown any in this thread, but that would be mean. nicker: