[WideRight05]

For a guy that keeps saying he won't waste any time talking to me, you sure wrote a book. Now, i have to say Wide Right i'm disappointed in you, you were at one time one of the best trollers on BGR and now you've fallen so far, you can't even tell you've been trolled. You talk about intelligence and yet you and Mr. Smarty Pants Hoot can't even figure out someone is ruffling your feathers. Yes, that's all i've been doing, and if you don't believe me, there are a few people on here that can tell you that's exactly what i was doing. So much for being the smart guys. Now, you are correct about me being against the establishment, i still am, I would vote for Cruz if he got the nod, the same as i would vote for Trump if he did. If it was stolen from either guy i would absolutely leave the party. The reason i've acted the way i have is this, Hoot runs all over this board whining about Trump this and Trump that, hell we know he has faults, you aren't telling us anything new, but so DOES Cruz which he refuses to acknowledge, that's why i pointed out the Pastor calling for the death of Gays while introducing Cruz at a rally. Don't hear Hoot or anyone posting about that do we? I'm all for calling politicians out on their faults, but when someone makes thread after thread about one, but refuses to call out the other it's something totally different. I told you exactly why i have chosen Trump over Cruz, i really only have two major concerns at the moment, yes i could list concerns all day but the two main one's i've had i believed Trump would be better suited for. If you or Hootie don't like it then that's really not my problem. I'll be gone for a day or so, but i did manage to put some stuff together today while traveling about Cruz and his many flops. That thread will make it in a day or so, but i have a feeling after tomorrow it won't really matter. Everyone have fun while i'm gone :Thumbs:

I was messing with you as well with some of my jokes. I'm more serious-minded when it comes to politics, but I think highly of Harlan County - I'm certainly not going to let Granny Bear and others down and actually mean what I'm saying on that. You didn't crack at my intelligence comment as I thought you would. Yes, that was trolling. Notice I just called out your intelligence in this thread. Not overall intelligence.

Now, as to the rest of this, though, I'm not speaking for Hoot Gibson, but I find it hard to imagine he would be so taken to Cruz that he doesn't see the fault in him. I believe all four candidates - Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, and Trump - that are remaining, have major faults that have disappointed in this campaign. Cruz and Rubio have been typical politicians who have engaged in the twisting of words, Trump has called names and twisted the meanings of others, and Kasich (also more of a moderate) is pretending to be some nice guy to try to separate himself from the others.

You still did not answer about the issue of consistency. All politicians, they lie, they steal, they cheat each other and will do anything just to get ahead. The one thing that Cruz has over the others is consistency in voting patterns, which after multiple tries you still haven't been able to prove Cruz being inconsistent or that Trump will be more consistent in how he sticks to what he believes in. Watch Trump try to defend the unborn, or watch him try to defend traditional marriage or another issue besides immigration. He is all over the place. With abortion he just says something to the tone of, "well, that's just it - I'm pro-life. I'm pro-life with the exception of rape, incest, and life of the mother. Same as Reagan." He never provides a line of defense on abortion or other issues besides immigration.

I do believe that Trump is as pro-life as he said - it's just a major concern though that it won't be of much importance to him. Thus, I wonder how highly it will be taken into consideration when he picks a judge for the SCOTUS or other courts. Remember that when you're electing a president, you're also electing judges. You're electing appeals court judges, you're electing federal judges. It's more important now than it was even years ago. Franklin Roosevelt, who was elected to a 4th term, only appointed a little over 200 judges. Reagan and Clinton both appointed almost 400 judges each during their two terms. Thus, you're electing many appointees for the court system - many of which aren't challenged too highly by the Senate.

If you want to stick with Trump, I'm not stopping you and neither is anyone else. You can brag till the cows come home about Trump defeating Ted Cruz, but it's not going to make much of a difference in the election and it's certainly not going to win my vote. It's not going to bother me because our society has gone too far downhill and whoever the president is won't be able to stop it. I always thought the Democrats were the ones who would prefer a candidate who is "cool" rather than competent, but apparently it's the same way with the Republicans now.