If taken to the extreme as you assume, any government is a compromise in principles.
However, given the limitations of the constitution, Gary Johnson is not a compromise for me.

Good one, Steven!

You should have reminded her that cancer cures smoking.

I will need to find a good clown college! -- j
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Had nothing to do with his business success...most realized he leaned on the big government side but his credentials would of gotten us out of this debt spiral...instead of at least getting on the right road, we got off the road, off the rails altogether with obobo...now we're screwed.

The point was the establishment, of which Cruz is one. You argue Cruz is not part of the establishment. I disagree with you. He is part of the establishment, and perhaps the perception he is not part of the establishment is why he has some pull in the polls. I am listening to Trump on TV now at AIPAC.

If that is supposed to be a criticism of Cruz, I missed it. She does an admirable job of railing on the Republican establishment in exaggerated outrage, but the only mention of Cruz in all six minutes was that he needed 80% of the remaining delegates to get the nomination. The rest was the same tired line that it's an eventuality that Trump will win the nomination. I agree with her that the electorate is tired of the establishment games, but if that's the case, why is Cruz also doing well in the polls - and getting better as more candidates drop out?

Guilt-by-association is a non-starter and you know it. -1 I don't engage in character assassination and I expect better from those on this forum. If you have specific criticisms of Ted Cruz, bring them up and let's discuss them as I have done, but I'm not interested in opinion or hearsay, nor am I interested in editorials like this one.

The last point I would bring up is that Cruz has been the only candidate other than Trump to call into question the legitimacy of a brokered convention. If he was part of the Establishment with so much to gain from a brokered convention, why would he openly defy his own Party in such a manner when Kasich has admitted that a brokered convention is his only hope?

You would have to sacrifice principles to vote at all in our presidential election. Would John Galt vote at or all, or even accept the job as president?

If taking the best road meant I had to sacrifice my ethics and principles, no.

I dont know if he can withstand the barrage of negativity that is being aimed at him and still get to be president. The insiders HATE, HATE, HATE him for exposing their games. Hillary is most likely to be president, and that will spell pretty much the end of our country

Exactly, I agree with your points. I have been disgusted with all the back room deals that get pushed down my throat, and all the political correctness designed to shut me up. I like that Trump is freeing us all from political correctness. Even if I am wrong at a point in time, its better than I say what I think openly so we all know (including me) just where I stand. We should all be ourselves while we are alive.

I will be very surprized if Trump is the GOP candidate. If he is, it will be after the GOP leadership have enough blackmail to control him. That will give you the worst president in history, even exceeding the racist in chief.
The only way the people ever get a voice is by not wasting votes on the GOP-Dem statist party.

But dont you take the best road with the least traffic when you have a choice Isnt it the same in this case. Some are better than others

Hillary will be bad. Trump will be bad. Sanders will be bad. Anyone from the GOP/Dem party will be bad by definition.
i don't vote for someone I think will be bad.

I would love to see more parties than just the two. Competition is good for business and I think it is good for politics.

Good observation, but not what I see as his attraction.

As I see the situation, the Establishment (those in power in the GOP, Dems, and media) underestimated Trump and thought the election would be business as usual with one of their own elected. The GOP would rather have a Dem elected than Trump because they are all part of the Big Government Party.

Cruz is one of their own, pure establishment through and through. So is his wife. Cruz has publicly shown he is a lying, cheating, underhanded, religious nut case who uses his bible to justify all his heinous behavior. Government and politics should be religion-free zones, but Cruz, like Bush, takes orders from his imaginary friend in the sky as well as his corporate “sponsors.”

Certainly it is no secret the few whistle blowers who have exposed the corruption have been excommunicated, denigrated, or suffered terrible accidents. Even people outside the System (like Wikileak’s Assange) who risk all to expose the documents of our rulers are treated as criminals or traitors and not the heros they are.

Donald Trump is now broadcasting these truths. In doing so he is encouraging free speech, a freedom which has been on a losing streak for decades. He has been an insider until now and now he exposes how the top politicians lust for power is funded by their corporate contributors in return for political favors, both above and below the table.

Few of us favor corruption and this issue has aroused excitement among Americans across the whole political and religious spectrum, from the communist-socialists, the welfare-statists, Christians, Atheists, Constitutional libertarians and anarchists.

This is the heart of the Trump Political Movement.

I disagree with Trump about many major issues, but we I hope he can expose corruption from the inside and help bring it to an end. Trump is a negotiator, and many of the issues he touts are shown to achieve the exact opposite of what he wants, I hope he will change.

At worst, it will be a new gang and it will take time for them to become entrenched.

He might just do more FOR the country than do TO it. Like keep Hillary from winning. If I didnt think he could keep Hillary out of my pocket, I wouldnt be so interested in supporting him. But, give me someone else who can get nominated and then beat Hillary. You may think its Cruz, but he cant even win enough states to get nominated, let alone elected. And the rest of the repubs are either not there anymore, or so far down in the primaries as to be dead in the water.

Maybe the GOP and dems will have some unexpected competition in the debate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...
The article points out that the inclusion of Perot in debates by the League of Women Voters was the reason the GOP and Dems created the arbitary rule that keeps out any competition to the statist party.

The best I can say is you have not done your homework regarding Cruz. His entire family has been in politics from parents to siblings, along with his crapitalist relative Neil Cruz who took millions. The history you would have us repeat is to put yet another establishment person as president. The panic of the GOP, Dems and media are simply they want to keep things as they are.

Jeaninne Pirro did a good 6 minute video on this.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4809296522...

I understand. I just meant to compare where the repub candidates are to what we are going to get if she wins

Fine let him go back to those who love his majesty. What he will do to the country is the problem.

No sane person in the Gulch considers Hillary or Sanders. I don't waste time on the insane.

He does seem a bit driven to get what he wants by whatever means. I just get that feeling. He also has this strange smile after he says something that people seem to like. Its as if his handlers told him to say that in order to get people to go for him, and he is just happy about the power he just got. This is just something that ran through my mind as I watched him speak. As if the handlers instructed "say point #1, 3, 5, and 10" to get positive response. This is totally an off the cuff emotional response to him, and I have no proof he actually thinks that way.

So do I !! A divided government and the exposure of cronyism to the light of day without worry about political correctness would be a plus.