Loose cannon is needed for 4 years. I would pay to sit in the oval office and listen to some lame bureaucrat propose something stupid to Trump. It would be priceless !

Maybe the ship of state's deck DOES need a loose cannon.
I've plenty of time to think about Mr. Trump.
I'm still (at this point) voting for Cruz to make a statement.
Well, try to. Heard on the car radio today that Trump has a lock on the Alabama GOP vote.
Where I live the blacks will make Hillary a winner in both the Dimwit primary and the USA final.
You'd think I'd just stay home; but no, I consider voting to be a citizenship duty.

Sanders did live in the former Soviet Union for a while... he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont and came up with some wacko scheme of a 'sister city' in the Soviet Union. When he got married to his very unattractive bride, they honeymooned in their 'sister city' and the City of Burlington taxpayers picked up the tab as a 'work trip'.

He's very vulnerable, Hillary isn't hitting him on this stuff because she probably vacationed on the taxpayer dime herself, Trump will just decimate him if he's the democratic nominee. I just don't see that happening though.

Trump tells it like he sees it. Thats refreshing and will bring real honesty and probably some real change to government. He will work better with foreign countries to enhance trade on better terms for us- he knows how to negotiate for a change. I can see better foreign relations because he will just deal honestly with other countries from a position of mutual respect. He isnt John Galt, so I dont pretend he is perfect and consistently objectivist. But I do think he will slow down the progression to socialism and stupid government control.

Sanders is a wacko who needs to live in Venezuela for awhile to see how socialism has worked for them !!!!! I like Trump for many reasons. First of all, he says it like he sees it with no political correctness. Second, he doesnt give speeches from notes or teleprompters like the other guys do (look at the notes on all the podiums EXCEPT his). Third, he doest take contributions or speaking fees like Hillary (I wonder what Goldman expected for that $675k speaking fee???) Fourth, he will be able to negotiate better with foreign countries.

Interesting. Thanks.
I was once a heretic in my past. It's a resentful reaction to having any specific religion shoved down your throat.
Ex-Catholic talking here. Fifteen years later I was "born again" as it's called.
I was won over. Not forced.

except for the slaves which even Jefferson had. All white settlers are humans and are created equal, but the black slaves are not humans so they arent created equal. Interesting way to keep the cheap labor quiet.

As I see it, it is very simple. Who you have been is who you will be, run Cruz` history and then Trumps. Who has shown through their actions - not their words, that they have and will act in a lawful,Constitutional fashion?

The Founding Fathers would not pass a law requiring you to pray to anything.
The First Amendment does not either.
Ted Cruz won't be doing that.
Such theocratic behavior is not at the core of his conservative American principles.
And he's not going to win anyway.
Trump may yet win me over. I listened to him speak in Texas today.
He said he's going to protect Christians.
A TV preacher was even invited up to the podium.

I"m in California, but went to his rally in Reno, I saw voter registration tables, maybe a dozen of them, with lines of 30-40 people in each waiting to register as Republicans.

The media pundits don't like him, because frankly, they all work as campaign workers during election season and he's not interested in hiring them. The networks don't like him because he doesn't seem to feel the need to buy ad time, so that deflates their general election anticipated advertising money bonanza by like, 30-50%. The 'establishment' doesn't like him because it's pretty obvious he's not going to hire Karl Rove or any of their other 'handlers'. The other politicians don't like him because he's going to show them up for the fools they are with 'free trade' deals. Why did we ever feel the need for 'free trade'? Think about it, we're the largest economy in the world, what the hell do we need to give others free access to our markets for? If trade isn't free, do you think BMW is not going to want to sell their cars here?

You always have to follow the money... what does Karl Rove get for blasting him? well... if Rubio or Cruz get the nomination, Karl Rove might have a job again.. Lindsay Graham is a failure anyway, I wouldn't listen to anything out of that RINO's mouth. Have you noticed all these people that don't like him, have literally never had a paycheck from anything other than government, let alone never having signed the front of a paycheck...

Today, Sanders is in Hibbing Minnesota, about an hour from my hometown of Bemidji, telling Native American tribal leaders that he feels their pain, and he has always thought we treated them disgracefully... Huh? Just what we need, another apologist for shit that happened 200 years ago. In addition to casinos, extreme preferential 8(a) set asides for government contracts to tribal-owned companies such as Bearskin and Cherokee Services, and around $1200 / month for every man/woman/child + free indian health services... maybe we need to what? give them more? Hold onto your wallets folks... Then he walks across the street to the iron workers and tells them that free trade has been just disgraceful for the steel industry... LOL... ya think? Nice of him to say that, needs to credit that plagiarized statement to Mr. Trump though, I think he needs some more of his own free college plan.

The kakistocracy has always had the tendency to label, blame or accuse others for what they themselves have done or thought.

That is clear sign of brain only behavior, devoid of self inspection and have either been brain washed, put on prescriptive medication or early in life had chosen Not to be an accountable conscious human being; and of course there is always the probability of having a genetic retardation preventing them from being so.

Heretics had a big part in framing our founding documents. Thomas Young, the designer of the Boston Tea Party had great influence in the day with meetings that resemble the Twitter and FaceBook communicaitons we have today. Thomas Paine? Heretic. Then the Deists. The documents of our nation's founding reads more of Spinoza and radical enlightenment than any Christian designed document would. All humans are created equal? That was a radical statement for the times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6U8l...

I have supported Jenny Beth in the past, and may
again in the future. . we might want to think of Cruz
staying in the senate to filibuster when needed. -- j
.

That position was what made me lose enthusiasm
for Scott Walker. I had really wanted him to run
for president about 4 years ago. Well, live and
learn.--But I don't think that Cruz will be able to
have much effect with his "religious zealotry" if
he is elected.--And we would have more freed-
om with him in the job than we would with
Clinton, Sanders, or Trump.

I am 70, and Trump has freed me from political correctness. I think its better for us to be ourselves and speak our minds- and others should do the same. We all should have respect for others although we certainly dont have to agree with them !!! Personally, I thought Bill Mayer's movie RELIGULOUS was spot on. I probably dont agree with anything else he says (wild liberal), but religion should definitely NOT be part of government. If someone wants to believe in ghosts and pray to them- its fine with me. Just dont pass laws requiring me to do it..

I noticed all the candidates EXCEPT Trump had papers in front of them they were referring to. Trump just tells it like it is and doesnt need cue cards

I live in Nevada and spent an hour waiting in line to vote for trump. He isnt john Galt by any means, but he says it like it is for a change, we know where he is at cause he tells us, and he is stand up kind of person who will get respect from other countries by honestly negotiating with them rather than apologizing for our existence (like with Iran). I dont know about this wall thing's practicality, and I do think that if you want to stop illegal immigration, you grant guest worker permits that dont carry citizenship rights. You make worker protection laws (minimum wage) only for US citizens. You stop welfare for illegals, even if they have children. You stop the idea that just being born on this side of the line grants citizenship automatically. Then you dont need the wall nearly as much. Drop the anti-drug laws which dont work anyway, and the cartels cant make money over here and trafficking stops. Let each state/county do its own schooling IF it wants to. Get Feds out of it. I, of course would be killed less than 24 hours after being appointed king of the USA and enacting these things.

Exactly, so the question is, does he win in the other 49 states where they don't teach the biblical version of creation in school... probably not...

First of all, I'm not a Trump fanatic. I'm a realist that wants to see us WIN at many levels. Trump seems to bring out a shit-load more voters to the polls than anyone else can in their wettest dreams. 7 out of 8 of his supporters were not even registered to vote before, which isn't surprising, considering we have like 20% voter turnout in this country. The 'polls' always say "among likely voters" - which is why, although they are accurate in predicting his win, they are way under-estimating his victory numbers. If you haven't voted in 20 years, you are not being polled as "a likely voter" and sure as shit not being "a likely Republican Primary voter".

Those people are going to turn out in numbers that are going to say "I'm a Republican, I need to vote for all these other Republicans too". Every R on the slate is going to strongly benefit from a Trump landslide voter turnout. I don't really care what Trump does, frankly, I think we need a wall built. I live in California, I'm officially a minority in terms of diversity preference in government hiring here for being a white male. I like immigration, most of my friends are immigrants, but I also don't like people cutting the line. Cruz & Rubio seem to be just fine with that, I don't see the difference between 'citizenship' and just living here and enjoying the benefits while myself and my family goes off to fight for freedom. We actually let them buy firearms, but not vote.... whatever..

I'm looking at the benefit of registering new Republican voter rolls in RECORD numbers. We can actually turn back the dial on the fact that we are in a diminishing population segment while the democrats cobble together 50 different groups that don't like each other but always vote together. (Teamsters + the gay vote, environmentalist + the union logger vote, etc.)

Don't let the pundits and the media, all funded & hugged by the democrats, mislead you with that 'electability' crap. Trump brought 35,000+ votes in Nevada, compared to a TOTAL of under 12,000 that voted for Hillary and Bernie. He also swept the hispanic vote. That doesn't sound like someone that will lose 50-40% to me in the general... not at all.

Here's the magic, look at the TOTAL votes cast in each of these primaries, look at Trump's numbers, compared to Hillary and Bernie's actual vote counts, don't look at 'percentages' because they are only showing the percentages. Trump carried all but 3 of the counties in South Carolina, and those 3 were cities, and in my California world, the cities are where the liberals live. The carpet doesn't match the drapes you might say...

I'm restricted from preaching here. On the subject of faith, I could quote mumble mumble mumble cough cough.
I am who I am.
About to turn 69 with most of my life behind me, I try to be honest with myself and have a good time.
There are some Christian lurkers here. I get PM'd from time to time.

Last night I decided just not to listen to Rubio anymore- he is just too slick for me and makes statements and then changes the subject before the other person can answer. Imagine how he would do using those tactics on Putin? We would have WW3 on our hands..

Cruz is a preacher at heart. Texas is a bible belt state. To be a popular governor, he has to be a preacher. I remember Rick Perry, who said that evolution didnt exist. Thats like saying the earth is flat. Crazy

Speaking of religious zealots--we are probably going to blow up the planet, starting in the middle east, because we think we are supposed to.

Cruz, IMHO, has no integrity. I am going by how he conducts himself at the debates. He tries dirty, sneaky attacks that usually blow up in his face.

Cruz and Rubio looked like idiots in last night's debate. They were like little yipping, snapping dogs. It was embarassing. Ben Carson's answers were the only ones I agreed with. He won the debate as far as I am concerned.

At present, Senator Cruz is the only candidate who is learned enough, Constitutionally savvy enough, and has integrity enough to make a satisfactory President. He's not perfect by Objectivist standards, but unless you want to make a statement by going Libertarian he's the best of the bunch. Accusing him of dirty tricks is merely a ploy to discredit where no discredit is warranted.

My dislike of Cruz doesn't have anything to do with his record, quite the contrary, he's a very solid conservative. The problem is the electorate is not. He consistently polls about 20% of the right wing of the Republican party, as primary voters are basically activists compared to the general electorate, and he's getting 20% of those.

Trump fires up the masses by bringing in huge swaths of newly registered voters that quite honestly, would have probably been predicted to register democrat - displaced blue collar workers, poorly educated, etc. He carried the Latino vote in Nevada... more Latinos turned out to vote for Trump, than they did combined for Hillary and Bernie. Actually, 4 times the number of people turned out to vote for Trump, than turned out for Hillary and Bernie.

Cruz's critique of Trump is really just a reflection of his own myopathy when it comes to anything other than a legal argument or campaigning (the 2 skills in trade of a career politician). In large project management, business construction, or strategic planning, we use expert judgement and experience to outline a plan in broad strokes, assign resources and increase the level of detail through the project plan as we approach each phase and "know more". If you are planning a new high rise building to break ground in 2 years, do you know what day and hour the 4th dump truck of concrete will be delivered for the sidewalk on the back of the building? Of course not. You know it will have to happen, and you know about how much it will cost, but scheduling is very generalized and rolled up into a summary work package with a sticker price attached to it.

So these other clowns will release exceptionally detailed tax plans, health care proposals for 340 million people, etc. etc. None of which has a snowball's chance in hell of getting through Congress, let alone actually 'penciling' from a resource perspective, and Cruz is no different with his flat tax plan. Will it work? Probably, I don't know, it sounds good, but can he actually implement it by fiat? No, he can't, even if he wins.

The Cruz'rs also tend to deny his obvious faults, I strongly reject the idea he is a natural born citizen. His mother was a permanent resident (the criteria for a green card here) and his father was a Cuban national and both had been living in Canada and working in the oil industry for years. That sounds a lot like, you moved to Canada and you are not coming back, as most expatriate jobs last about 6 months to a year, in fact, you can't stay in Canada beyond 179 days without immigration & work VISA... soo... which is it? He had a Canadian passport until he renounced his citizenship in 2014. That doesn't sound like 'natural born' to me... Whatever stupid arguments he has been making, is just his trial lawyer double-speak, he could easily argue against it if it was Hillary or Trump or Bernie or Carson, but it's him, so he's grabbing onto some silly "my mom was a citizen living overseas". Ok, whatever. Here we call them anchor babies, in fact, he calls them anchor babies when it comes to illegal immigration. What the hell was he?

Second, while he does pontificate, he has never actually accomplished 'anything' in doing it. You see him on CSPAN, but when they pan the room, no one is there, he's just reading Dr. Seuss into the Congressional Record and wasting your tax dollars doing it.

This group is about people that ACCOMPLISH something, that BUILD something, that have skills. I'm pretty shocked, quite honestly, that the elected official that has never had anything but a government paycheck is somehow more popular than the guy that absolutely fits the description of what Ayn Rand wrote about as titans of industry that eventually just 'shrugged'. He's not building steel for train tracks, but he's building very large buildings, he employs a lot of people that seem to like working for him, and he does everything he can do to avoid paying taxes (and I'm 100% guilty of that as well - anyone that is not, is a fool because your dollars are buying $600 million of planes and selling them to the Afghan Air Force for $32,000 - we really did just do that).

Lastly, have you ever noticed how Cruz screams fire and brimstone, but he's pretty much a liar fairly consistently. He lies about Rubio's record, he lies about his own naturalization and upbringing, he lies about Trump as the PT Barnum circus, as if Trump is a master of sideshow ticket sales, instead of creating billions of dollars in trophy-class real estate investments. What has Cruz done? I mean REALLY done... has he invented something? has he innovated a service business in someway? No. He debates & argues with people for a living. Period. How does that really improve your life? Or anyone's life?

Then he lies about "forgetting" about a million dollars in loans from investment bankers that quite honestly, no one would really qualify for in his position unless it's a little bit of 'favor-buying'.... If you make $200k a year and are probably paying (or should be paying) $10,000 a month of interest on a signature loan, do you really forget something like that?