[TheRealThing]

Nice. You have taken a break from your non-stop barrage from issuing insults to quote scripture. Good for you. You have earned a break. :Thumbs:

Donald Trump has no armor, with or without chinks. Donald Trump has a very thin skin and Hillary's campaign has already begun exploiting that weakness. Trump is also running very low on money and I have pointed out elsewhere, most of the media have turned on him, which was very predictable. Earned media is no substitute for cash when 80 percent of the national media support your opponent.

My guess is that the RNC told Trump to back out of the debate with Bernie Sanders and they will continue to impose more discipline on his campaign. When you are dependent on somebody else's money to finance your campaign, then you cannot ignore the demands of your financiers. The RNC destroyed Bob Dole's chances to win, IMO, by pressuring him to stay on script.

And that is the problem with arguing with somebody like you. Being right is all you care about, even if you're not right. It is mostly about maintaining your rep, and nurturing your intellectual mystic with you. That's why you go ape when you're up against the ropes. I don't care if I lose a debate point, nobody's perfect. Even men I consider to be great far beyond the norm are not right 100% of the time. And as you point out, Scripture warns the saved about the pitfalls of debate, arguing; And yet, we are to withstand evil. It is a tightrope walk and one I choose to handle in the manner I have on here.

To me, integrity does not mean it's okay for Mr Trump's political opponents to malign his character, ascribing all manner of black hearted speculative surmising to his intent. None of which can be proven. On the other hand, Hillary as I have said, is literally an open book, or in her case library would be a much more apt depiction. If one has truth on his side, just saying it out in the open air is powerful. Thus the import of the First Amendment, and the incredible gift of insight the founding fathers shared. In any case, it was not okay for Richard M. Nixon to eaves drop on his political opponents, and it is not okay to use deceit dressed up as patriotism to manipulate an election, supposedly to effect an outcome for good.

If you can't or won't see that that is the real issue we face, and you'd rather minimize the existential threat of it down to a spitting match, then you can't really say you care about the outcome from where I sit. As far as your assault on my spiritual sted, I feel sorry for you. If you have so much as scratched the surface, you know that is the quintessential example of God's warning not to judge other people. Occasionally I do cite Scripture, as It is the ultimate source. If one can say that speaking the truth out into the open air is powerful, how much more so to speak out Scripture? It is after all, God's own Breath, is it not? Scripture has factual authority over everything from the state of men (who were made in His image) before their God, to the world systems of finance, geopolitics, national and local governments, and even the very workings of the universe and should always override "Mother Jones" and the opinions of men if you ask me. Not the converse, which is to see men redefine, repackage, rename, and then re-legislate God's moral precepts in the image of men.

I will be happy to back you 100% when you're right, as you often are. I cannot do that however, when I think you happen to be slamming the wrong candidate, and this time we are at odds about the candidate. In saying that, feelings of country can be strong. Once a US sitting Vice President by the name of Aaron Burr, shot and mortally wounded the former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel over power. I believe a handshake instead of a bullet would have enshrined them both as American greats. After all their sacrifice and concerns about the common good, both of their lives ended in one way or another that day. The nation lays at stake, let's move on.