Trump Tidal Wave

Donald Trump needed to win huge today in the northeast and he did exactly that.  Nearly sweeping all delegates that were up for grabs and possibly putting himself on course to actually secure the GOP nomination.

Next Tuesday is Indiana.  Ted Cruz needs to score heavy there or this race is probably over effectively.

Government's True Purpose

The purpose of government first and foremost without any exception is to protect the innocent and bring the wicked to justice. That means provide for general safety and security. It is not and never has been the purpose of government to conduct "fair" or to derive programs. All of the stuff that seem to be argued in public these days have little if anything at all to do with the main thing.

Our Constitution lists rights..not granted by government. The rights listed in our Bill of Rights are guaranteed beyond the authority of government. That is what Thomas Jefferson spoke of in the Declaration of Independence when he mentioned that government derives authority from the governed and that our rights are endowed by the Creator. God outranks any President. The founders understood this...they codified it.

If government doesn't protect the basic rights, then all other things are window dressing nonsense. Keep splitting the country along the lines of one side wanting nonstop "free" and insisting that whatever they decide they want or don't want is suddenly a right and no one under the age of 40 right now will ever retire.

Obama's Hypocrisy....SHOCKING!!

So...remember that one time that Benjamin Netanyahu came to the USA and addressed Congress?  Remember how Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the Obama administration's Ensure Iran Get's Nuclear Arms and money deal? 

Yesterday the President went to the UK and essentially threatened the British to not leave the European Union.  It is shocking that so many British officials were upset that the American President would stick his nose into their business.  Shocked....just...

Trump is Phony

Yesterday Donald Trump in short order stated that he disagrees with the North Carolina law requiring people to use public restrooms that equate to their actual gender.  He later stated that Republicans should soften position on abortion rights.  Given how he manages his life it is clear that Mr. Trump would seek to use the force of power to push whatever views he has regardless of outside input.  He is not a Conservative.  He is a liberal.  There is no difference between a liberal Democrat and a liberal Republican. 

Christians who refuse to vote based on the Bible will answer to God.

Trump Shakeup

The Trump campaign's ground game has been terrible for weeks now.  From chaos at the top of his Colorado campaign team to just getting a California campaign manager last week things have gone badly for Mr. Trump in the quest for delegates.

Tomorrow is New York's much anticipated primary.  Donald Trump most certainly needs upward of 75 delegates in his Empire State haul tomorrow to maintain any reasonable chance at the nomination. 

This past weekend we saw in several states the Trump campaign trounced in state conventions for delegates by the Cruz campaign.  Today it seems to have hit a boiling point.

Last week Donald Trump's organization picked up Rick Wiley who led Governor Walker's terrible early campaign for President.  It looks like Mr. Wiley was going to be appointed over Scott Jolly who has served as national field director.  Mr. Jolly apparently disagrees and has resigned just as the race enters a run of primaries that the Trump team expects to roll thru.  This cannot be seen as good news for Team Trump.

The Confusing Trumpeters

March 8 Hawaii held a closed Republican caucus to elect delegates to the national convention.  Donald Trump won that contest.  He got the delegates assigned and there was not a single complaint from him or any other candidates in that contest.

Last week Colorado held a closed Republican caucus to elect delegates to the national convention.  Ted Cruz won all of them.  Donald Trump made no attempt to win them and has complained non-stop about it ever since.

Colorado Cruizin

Colorado has had a Republican delegate selection system in place since 1912.  For over 100 years it has included local, district and then statewide levels of delegate selection for the national convention.

In 2012 Colorado ran it's delegate selection process independent of the statewide straw poll.  Straw polls by definition are not elections.  They are advisory.  The party did not use the straw poll in delegate selection.  There is nothing unusual about this.

In 2015 the Republican National Committee informed Colorado Republicans that if they conduct a statewide poll they must use it in delegate selection, or not hold a straw poll at all.  As it the right of a state Republican party making it's rules, Colorado Republicans elected to not hold the straw poll.  They made the announcement in August of 2015.

The Trump campaign never got around to appointing a state campaign manager to run Colorado until days before Colorado began holding congressional district level assemblies.  That manager was promptly fired and replaced.  The result being that the Trump campaign didn't prepare candidates to run for delegate slots and got beaten in all 7 Congressional districts.

Donald Trump was asked by Colorado Republicans to at least address the state convention on Saturday April 9th.  Mr. Trump refused.  Ted Cruz spoke to the convention crowd and promptly won all 13 delegates that were up for grabs there.

Coloradans voted.  They voted locally.  They voted at their convention.  There is nothing particularly unusual about this.  40% of participants in delegate elections were new comers who had never participated before.  This suggests that the process was open in the same way it has been in previous years.

The only thing different in this process is that the Trump campaign treated it like it didn't matter.  They blew off Colorado in favor of New York.  They didn't organize.  They didn't coach candidates on how to run for delegate elections.  They didn't organize voters to actually get them to attend local or state votes.  There should thus be no surprise that Mr. Trump didn't win delegates.  The Cruz campaign by contrast engaged locally.  They organized candidates to run for delegate spots.  They convinced people to participate in the votes and reminded people of locations and times.  In a word...they were organized.

Ted Cruz worked hard..treated Colorado like it was important and knew the rules.  Rules that were published in 2015 for how this works.  The Trump campaign did nothing and as a result got nothing.

More About Trump and Veterans

Two months ago Donald Trump threw a hissy fit and ducked out of a GOP Presidential debate because of his extreme fear of Megyn Kelly and his apparent phobia when it comes to getting actual serious questions.  He rushed to CNN to perform and pander to veterans organizations in a televised fund raiser.  We are told that Trump loves veterans.  So much so that between 2009 and 2013 his foundation donated a whopping $57,000 to veterans organizations which is more than half of the $100,000 that he donated to the Clinton Foundation.

To date out of $6,000,000 that was donated by others to Mr. Trump's event only 40% of the money has been actually distributed to veterans support groups.  No word on where the rest of the money is or what is going on with the distribution.  Perhaps we as a nation would have been better served if he had just not been such a whiny wuss hiding from Megyn Kelly.

Revolt of the True Conservative

For years Conservatives have been sold a bill of goods.  That being the idea that we should simply go along with Republican candidates in elections and that regardless of how liberal they are, we are better off with them than we are with Democrats.  Further we have been told that candidates should ignore our limited government desires or our fundamental beliefs in order to be more attractive to independents and centrist Democrats.  This thinking is how we nominated John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.  We then watched both of them lose badly on election day while the government tracked to the left.

Now we come to 2016 and there is a backlash against the establishment.  Lo and behold we have an actual small government Conservative who respects the views of Evangelical Christians..and he is running against a very liberal part time Republican.  The contrast is pretty solid.  I am troubled by arguments from Trump supporters who suggest that Conservatives should step in line because Trump will succeed as a liberal because he is somehow more brilliant than other liberal Republicans have been.

Last week Mr. Trump had a tough time defining his view on abortion.  He gave multiple answers that were in conflict with each other and finally settled on the notion that abortion law should remain unchallenged.  This is hardly a position that can be reasonably expressed as Pro-Life.

Mr. Trump is really just an angry populist.  Angry populism is not Conservative.  In fact it is more likely to be protectionist and nationalistic.  We don't need either.  We need Conservative.  Historically when Republican candidates embrace true Conservative principles they win national elections.  When Republicans campaign as Democrat Light..they lose and lose badly.

Despite how rabid Trump fanatics are, he does not meet the standard needed in a President.  He lacks experience or basic understanding of our military, the roles we play among our allies or how to conduct day to day business of government.  The primary argument his supporters keep making is that he is not the establishment..except that he has spent the greater part of 40 year funding said establishment.

Tonight in Wisconsin, a heavily unionized state with a very strong populist tendency...Senator Ted Cruz blew out Donald Trump in the primary beating him by nearly 15% in a state in which he was running 3rd 2 weeks ago.  Conservatives need to unite behind an actual true Constitutionalist in Ted Cruz and support his progress toward the Republican nomination for President.