Happier Days
John R. Houk
© May 4, 2016
I am a Cruzer. BUT Senator Cruz has suspended his candidacy
for the GOP nomination for POTUS. YET, if Cruz has any kind national future as
a leader in the United States – I will again be a Cruzer. The Financial Times
provides a decent summary that correlates to the reason I chose to be a Cruzer:
A self-described fighter for “limited government, economic growth and the Constitution”, Mr Cruz joined the Senate in 2012, boosted by support from the anti-establishment Tea party. He quickly earned a reputation as a wrecker, championing controversial attempts to scupper the implementation of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law in 2013, in an effort that included a 21-hour filibuster in the Senate floor that helped pave the way to a government shutdown, and during which he read “Green Eggs and Ham” to his daughters on television. (Bold Text Mine - How Ted Cruz dropped the ball in his bid for the White House; By Sam Fleming & Demetri Sevastopulo; Financial Times; Last updated: 5/4/16 6:53 am)
I can add (Ted’s
Website and OnTheIssues) that Senator Ted Cruz is an Evangelical Christian
a son of a Pastor AND a huge supporter of Israel as America’s
partner in the Middle East. I can also add Ted supported obliterating ISIS with
the Rules of Engagement that would including a WWII-style crushing goal of
victory at all costs. Gosh let me add the elimination of the Internal Revenue
Service bureaucracy with an entirely different and simpler tax code AND a
strong border to keep illegal alien out.
You can read the conventional wisdom of anti-Trump Conservative publication the National Review of the
reasons Ted failed in 2016 in the article entitled “The Weaknesses that Doomed Ted Cruz”.
But here’s the humble opinion of a small potatoes Christian Right blogger (i.e.
me):
Ted Cruz failed to vigorously campaign based on the reasons
he came from behind to win the Senate seat in Texas and take on the Republican
Establishment at the National Level in both Houses of Congress. Rather Ted
spent much of his campaign highlighting Trump’s negatives including The Donald’s
propensity to communicate like a New York tycoon. As an ex-telemarketer I can
tell you will not sell or have a pleasant conversation with a New York/New
Jersey person by being a polite nice guy. The New Yorker will lose patience and
rip you to shreds quite probably with insulting words you may not have used
since becoming a responsible adult. I had to mirror the New Yorker language
mannerism to come close to making a sale. I can’t recall how many times I
nearly got into trouble with my managers for talking like a rude New Yorker
until … I MADE A SALE.
When a Christian who has made his political stock on
integrity and faithfulness to Conservative ideology, tries to match a New
Yorker in tit-for-tat character devaluation, that Christian will fail and
tarnish himself in the meantime. I pray Ted has learned that lesson for future
campaigns or dialogues, because it was Ted’s demise in attempting to win the
GOP nomination for President of the United States of America.
Let me be honest. I am no longer a registered Republican. In
2012 I was not a Romney guy. I considered him a RINO at best and a closet
Liberal at worst. And yet he won the GOP nomination. In 2012 I was (and it
holds true today!) that Obama was a Socialist in not also a closet Communist,
who had huge sympathies toward the Islamic religion because of his Dad and
stepfather. I am fairly convinced that Obama is neither a Muslim nor a
Christian. Obama’s deceptive politics of the Left means at best he is a
Progressive Christian denying the Divinity and the miraculous of the Bible as
only adages rather than Truth. Shucks partner, for that matter Obama could be a
Progressive Muslim (if such a thing can
exist) denying all the absolutes of Islamic theo-politics while also
looking to the Mecca portions of the Quran as an adage rather truth.
If Muslims in the West understood that Obama is using Islam
to promote a Leftist New World Order in order to completely destroy the
Christian influenced Old World Order, those violent absolutists would mark
Obama for assassination. Obama should thank whatever Black Liberation Theology
(BLT) deity he might believe in that he lives in a nation that is tolerant to
all religious faiths to a fault and tolerant to both Left and Right ideologies.
Americans have no clue that Obama’s “fundamental transformation” agenda for
America correlates to the intolerance of Biblical Christian principles and the
Founding Father principles that made America a great nation.
That lack of understanding of Obama’s “fundamental
transformation” agenda led to American voters electing Obama in 2008 and
reelecting Obama in 2012. Romney’s HUGE FAILURE was not attacking the Obama
lies and the Benghazi lies of 2012 that should have elected Romney as
President. Instead Romney stuck to political correctness of a RINO/Liberal and
allowed Obama to back him into shadowland every time Romney dipped his little
toe in the shallow pond of exposing Obama’s and essentially Hillary’s lies.
Romney’s failure to NOT expose the Obama/Hillary lies
resulted in reelection in 2012 and me leaving the Republican Party and
registering as an Independent.
I still believe Ted Cruz would have defeated any Dem Party
candidate for President in this 2016 election cycle. Cruz was
anti-establishment and a principled Conservative.
I am just not sure that Donald Trump can follow through in being
a principled Conservative. Nonetheless, if Trump sticks to his guns on those
anti-establishment and non-politically correct promises he has put forth, then
Trump should be able to not only dip his little toe into the exposé-pond, but
also should be able to immerse himself in the ability to expose Hillary Clinton
as the lying crook that she inherently is.
AND so as a registered Independent I am voting for Donald
Trump for President in November 2016.
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