tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91293987078697008582024-03-13T10:19:31.617-07:00@PolitiJim's Rants for Reasonable People |My mostly political rants and sports rants (Chicago Sports except the evil White Sox), and spiritual matters. The 2016 National election is the focus for now. I'm a Christian Conservative who is not religious. I'm no Hemingway but hope you enjoy. If you are a liberal, cat owning, White Sox fan..GET THE HELL OFF OF MY BLOG! (just kidding). Also, be warned: I break grammar rules intentionally.PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-69239399395690402022020-04-30T16:25:00.001-07:002020-04-30T16:25:54.072-07:00The INSANE Defense by @REASON of the SCOTUS MANDATORY VACCINE RULING(Supposedly) Libertarian REASON posted an article <a href="https://reason.com/2020/04/30/when-the-supreme-court-upheld-a-compulsory-vaccination-law/#comment-8235831">When the Supreme Court Upheld a Compulsory Vaccination Law – Reason.com</a><br />
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Like many such articles in other places , it states emphatically that forcing a healthy man to be medically raped was "constitutional."<br />
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First - the original finding was vaccinating an individual, not a population. Courts have continued to use it (unchallenged) to continue to broaden the encroachment of government. But the original ruling entirely hinged on 3 elements. First that the compulsion (fine or imprisonment) was "reasonable" for general health. Second that vaccinations would protect the greater population. And third, that the legislating body had done exhaustive research to conclude that opposing theories were investigated and dismissed.<br />
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The #1 contributor of congress are pharmaceutical companies that make an average 440% return on vaccine investments since the 1986 Vaccine Act literally removes ALL LIABILITY from them. We've already cataloged Hillary Clinton giving away 20% of the US's strategic uranium supply for hundreds of millions back to the Clinton Foundation and NO prosecution or investigation by her party which ran the DOJ. ARE WE SURE CONGRESS HAS ORIGINALLY VETTED ALL SCIENCE? (And why do we think they are equipped to make a medical judgement in the first place.) ARE WE SURE CONGRESS ISN'T BEING SOLD to the highest bidder? Pharmaceutical companies also make up 70% of the revenue of mainstream media news budgets. I wonder why Hydroxycholorquine and azithromicin - which has been in the marketplace for 35+ years with little complication and costs less than $2 a dose is lambasted on ABCNNBCBS (with 4 clinical studies showing a 96% or better success rate) but Gilead's Remdesivir which costs 1,000 a dose has 1 public study in China showing it has a higher rate of death but every news organization is giving it glowing reviews before results of the NIH study is even released?)<br />
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The presumption that vaccines are "a miracle" as Bill Gates says is interesting because not only was US measles mortality PRIOR to the MMR vaccine was only 2 in 1 million (now it is 2 in 1,000), the CDC was forced to admit in court last month that they have ZERO studies to make their claim on their website saying autism is NOT caused by this vaccine or the combination of any of the 48 to 63 vaccinations now reccomended by the CDC. (Which actually makes money from many of those patents by the way.)<br />
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DOES it make a population safer?<br />
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It should first be noted that Jenner actually tested cowpox on his son and a neighbor boy who both developed extreme weakened immune systems. Both died before they were 21 of tuberculosis. It is a published medical truth still, that smallpox vaccines increases the risk of tuberculosis dramatically.<br />
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England made smallpox vaccination mandatory in 1853 with fines and imprisonments enacted by 1857. According to official records of the REGISTER GENERAL OF ENGLAND, between 1857- 1859 there were over fourteen thousand (14,000+) deaths from smallpox. From 1863-1865 there were over 20,000 deaths from smallpox. Then between 1870-1872 there were over 45,000 deaths from smallpox. The vaccine literally created massive outbreaks and pandemics.<br />
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Massachusetts mandated the smallpox vaccine in 1855 and the same thing happened. There were epidemics in 1859, 1860, 1864, 1865, 1867 and an enormous outbreak in 1872-73. Similar outbreaks suddenly happened wherever vaccinations were mandated in Germany, Japan, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Austria, and Holland.<br />
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Dr. Suzanne Humphries documents this in her book DISSOLVING ILLUSIONS, especially noting the town of Lester, England.<br />
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They had a 95% infant vaccination rate but had some of the worst outbreaks in all of England. The population demonstrated with 80,000 attendees and decided they would stop vaccinating - instead using quarantine of the infected with disinfectant of their homes. Lester's death rate AND outbreak rates PLUMMETED and ended up having the lowest death rate and outbreak rate of any town in their region of England.<br />
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( Go do your research.)<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-37805528759561645672020-04-18T10:27:00.001-07:002020-04-18T13:50:19.542-07:00Connecting the Coronavirus Dots of the World Control Evil Plan and Why COVID-10 Might Not Be a Virus<br />
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FASCINATING! Medical schools don't teach current discoveries of germ theory. <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/special_issues/viruses_exosomes" target="_blank">Exosomes</a> look like viruses but in truth are 'bio-programming' packets sent to be shared among living things. If corrupted you get things like coronavirus that likely aren't viruses at all. Watch the video. </div>
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<i>Some of this sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But I've carefully documented the source of patents, US government studies and corporate documentation so you can verify this for yourself.</i></div>
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Dr. Fauci has been at NIH since the 1980's and oversaw it in 2005 when <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/">the NIH concluded hydroxycholorquine was an effected deterrent to coronaviruses</a>. Why then would he be so negative about it even through last week when the world's leading virologist in France had also published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-peer-reviewed-study-our-treatment-cured-100-of-coronavirus-patients">study showing 100% efficacy against COVID-19 in mid-March</a>?</div>
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Might it be that Fauci is also on numerous Bill Gates foundations that exclusively push vaccines including the <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration">Leadership Council of the GLOBAL VACCINE ACTION PLAN</a> which purports that "vaccines are miracles" (despite the CDC admitting even normal <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/flu-vaccine-9-percent-effective-cdc/" target="_blank">seasonal flu vaccines work only a minority of the time</a> and <a href="https://www.icandecide.org/ican_lawsuits/stipulated-order-proving-cdc-has-no-studies-to-support-claim-that-vaccines-given-in-first-6-months-of-life-do-not-cause-autism/">recently admitted in court</a> they've never done any studies to prove that 95% of them don't cause autism.)</div>
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However Fauci continues to acknowledge the need for some non-existent, non-tested, mandatory vaccine Bill Gates is pushing including an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-on-bill-gates-wanting-digital-vaccine-certificates-im-very-concerned-about-slippery-slope">implanted 'digital certificate'</a> proving you've had a vaccination. </div>
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Mass media and Soros funded entities like Snoopes are already pushing disinformation that Gates isn't talking about an implanted chip. (In the interview cited he leaves it at 'digital certificate' without elaborating.) But Gates is the funder of a project called <a href="https://medium.com/id2020/immunization-an-entry-point-for-digital-identity-ea37d9c3b77e">ID2020 that SPECIFICALLY addresses how to implant 'digital certificates'</a> to track people's medical records. </div>
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Gates also has funded a company called <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/local-biotech-company-developing-coronavirus-vaccine/2250034/">Inovio </a>which claims to <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inovio-initiates-phase-1-clinical-trial-of-its-covid-19-vaccine-and-plans-first-dose-today-301035633.html">already have a coronavirus vaccine ready</a> but uses 5G to manipulate it through <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109217/">electroporation</a> (<i>click link to see what our own government has said about it)</i>.</div>
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This technique can be used to <a href="http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2013/Inovios-CELLECTRA-Electroporation-Delivery-Technology-Powers-Durable-Best-in-Class-T-Cell-Responses-from-HIV-Vaccine-in-Human-Study/default.aspx">administer DNA vaccines</a>, which inject foreign DNA into a host’s cells that changes the host’s DNA. This means if you take a DNA vaccine, you are allowing your DNA to be changed.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161226211258.htm">Nanobot implementation in humans</a> is already widely used. However, as a "vaccine manufacturer" they no longer have ANY liability due to the <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccine-mandates-results-dont-safeguard-childrens-rights-or-health-how-did-we-get-here/">1986 Vaccine Act</a>. So pharmaceutical companies that have to go through 6-10 years of clinical trials for normal pharmaceuticals - and can be held liable for their injuries - have literally ZERO liability when they produce a vaccine. The return on investment for vaccine development is nearly 4400%.</div>
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Bill Gates has been very public about his support for Planned Parenthood and population DEPOPULATION. He even claimed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L229t1k3FTw">in a TED Talk</a> that with vaccines - we could reduce the population by 10% to 15%. (<i>He also claims we should reduce CO2 to zero which of course would mean all plant matter on earth would die. But sure, he's a genius.</i>)<br />
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Don't forget, the media collectively lost it's breath, then it's sh*t when Trump threatened Jed! Bush's complicity in 9/11 cover ups, let alone the Obama forged document scandals or the Clinton Foundation / State Department Ponzi scheme.</div>
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If the JFK files show CIA subterfuge on the American people and it has Weinstein story-like legs, I'm guessing you will see incessant insanity from every elite and media orifice realizing their curtain of Oz is about to come down. </div>
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Most have no clue of Obama's mother/grandparents tie to the CIA, Bush 41's deep CIA ties and assassination orders, or - of course - the enormous coordinated effort taken to stage the 9/11 attack by the US government.<br />
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There are some rather uninformed posts flying around suggesting Newt Gingrich is some kind of one world government elitist. Most of this is recycled disinformation from the Mitt Romney forces of '12 or deceptive cherry picked exceptions of a very distinguished conservative crusader. The same can be done with ANY politician including Reagan who dramatically expanded abortion just 6 years before running for President, who implemented broad illegal alien amnesty as POTUS and who spoke highly of his liberal friends like Tip O'Neill.<br />
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Simply put, there may not be another personal alive who has done more to advance freedom and conservative values.<br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">He was among the first vocal and enthusiastic supporters of the TEA party appearing with Sean Hannity at the FIRST Tea Party event on 4/15/2009.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwK3_LQNjRU" target="_blank">vigorously defended Sarah Palin</a> to liberal reporters.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">He has a LIFETIME 90% American Conservative Union score, 100% his final year ('98).</span></span></li>
<li>National Taxpayers Union’s Annual Scorecard on reduced spending and taxes gave Gingrich an <a href="http://www.ntu.org/on-capitol-hill/ntu-rates-congress/members/house/newt-gingrich.html">“A”,</a> for his last four years in office, ranking him #1.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Moral Majority Founder <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/politijim.com/2012/01/paul-weyrich-warns-conservatives-on.html" target="_blank">Paul Weyrich admired Newt Gingrich</a> as did the <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/what-did-gopac-founder-think-of-newt.html" target="_blank">founder of GOPAC</a>. (For those who don't know, Paul Weyrich is the reason Reagan got elected according to Morton Blackwell.)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/18/group-blasts-gingrich-for-limiting-hires-to-muslims-who-renounce-shariah-law/?intcmp=obnetwork" target="_blank">banned any Muslim who hadn’t renounced Sharia Law</a> from his campaign.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">He <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/newt-not-taking-no-in-north-texas.html" target="_blank">started a campaign</a> to not only defend gun ownership as a Constitutional right, but to make it a WORLDWIDE human right.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">As House Speaker, with a Democrat President, Gingrich initiated </span>the first balanced budget since before the Vietnam War, we cut taxes and lowered unemployment to under 5 percent. (Incidentally we have NOT had a balanced budget since.)</li>
<li>Not only was <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/valentines-day-truth-massacre-on-tarp.html" target="_blank">Gingrich against Bush and the GOPe's TARP bill</a>, he had at least 2 TV interviews, 2 op-ed articles and gave a major National Press Club speech against it.</li>
<li>Led the fight against HillaryCare in the 90's (and won).</li>
<li>Led the <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2011/12/14/newts_past_and_future_leadership" target="_blank">biggest change of government power to conservatism</a> since Benjamin Disraeli in the 1800's, enacting MORE conservative legislation even than Reagan did.</li>
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Don't lose sight of that last point. At the bottom I list and link to more specifics, but the Democrats had controlled Congress for FORTY YEARS before Newt Gingrich engineered the Contract with America. Not only that, America went from a 20% approval to a 60% approval of Congress following Gingrich's leadership. <br />
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Yes, as Al Gore's INCONVENIENT TRUTH spread the false evangelism of Global Warming, Gingrich openly said we needed to take it seriously and if, true, would need to consider some form of research and legislation to stop carbon pollution. Just like many other scientists like Rush Limbaugh's buddy Roy Spencer did. But less than 2 years later - even before the Climategate email scandal of faked data became apparent, Gingrich had educated enough to <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/limbaughs-climatologist-defends-newts.html" target="_blank">vigorously fight against Cap and Trade in Hearings before Congress</a>.<br />
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Yes, the academic professor (who began in environmental studies, graduated in history and obtained a Masters and Doctorate in European history) opens himself up to - sometimes strange - people and ideas. His enthusiastic admiration for the Toffler's (The Third Wave) are often bandied about as some kind of new world order inspiration despite his continuing movies, books and speeches on Reagan, Washington and Christianity in American Government. And lest you forget, they ended up being prescient about many aspects of technology and social interaction. But if you are truly worried, go no further than <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/12/coulter-newt-is-toffler.html" target="_blank">Alvin Toffler himself who said that he and Newt agreed on very little</a>. <br />
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You want to know the WORST decisions/opinions of Newt Gingrich over his long career? Here you go: <a class="OJTUNIC-F-i" href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/05/the-idiots-guide-to-newt-gingrich.html">The Drinking Scale of Gingrich Big Government Gaffes</a>. Enjoy. And then help set the record straight by idiots that have tried to smear this man for the past 8 years.<br />
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Here is a quick list of links to other Newt insights:<br />
<ul>
<li>Description of a <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/more-honest-talk-about-newts-childhood.html" target="_blank">Newt Gingrich's childhood</a> by a friend who knew him.</li>
<li>A frank discussion of <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/honest-talk-about-gingrichs-woman.html" target="_blank">Gingrich's early marriages</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2011/12/14/newts_past_and_future_leadership" target="_blank">How Gingrich got conservative legislation passed with so many RINO's and liberals</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/fooled-by-fools-who-say-dont-be-newt.html" target="_blank">Links for</a>: Michael Reagan AND Nancy Reagan believed Newt Gingrich was the steward of the Reagan movement and legacy. The most conservative architects of the Reagan administration endorsed Newt Gingrich in 2012.</li>
<li>(<b>AMAZING MUST WATCH</b>) <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/those-damn-narcissists-like-newt.html" target="_blank">Video archives/transcripts of Gingrich speeches</a> BEFORE he became Speaker of the House including story of his daughter on how much he talked about his love for America as she was growing up. This post gives an insight into the amazing understanding of how the political SYSTEM needed to be changed, to actually move the country to the right - including how to deal with the liberal press.</li>
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From: <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/stats-on-what-newt-and-mitt-did-not.html" target="_blank">Stats Comparing Conservative Accomplishments of Newt and Mitt</a><br />
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<u>Newt Gingrich as GA Congressman and Speaker of the House:</u><br />
<ul>
<li>33 years as Congressman including 4 as Speaker of the House </li>
<li>Lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 90% <br />(most recent year was for 1998 at 100%)<a href="http://www.conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/1998/98houseratings.htm" target="_blank">*</a> ** </li>
<li>He had a Democrat controlled Congress up until 1994, a Democrat President </li>
<li>Helped
Reagan pass biggest tax cut in 50 years as Minority Whip, called out
George Bush on breaking his promise and led (as a legislator) a Democrat
President to do the same. </li>
<li>Art Laffer confirms Gingrich helped on a team that designed “Supply Side Economics.” </li>
<li>Supported/Championed policies that created 11 Million jobs. </li>
<li>National Taxpayers Union’s Annual Scorecard on reduced spending and taxes gave Gingrich an <a href="http://www.ntu.org/on-capitol-hill/ntu-rates-congress/members/house/newt-gingrich.html">“A”,</a> for his last four years in office, ranking him #1, #4, #2 and #11 and as one of the most conservative members in Congress. </li>
<li>Led
a Balanced Budget initiative with a Democrat President. He did this AS A
SPEAKER, not an Executive Branch Leader and not in control of the
Senate or Executive Branch. He balanced the budget 4 times creating the
first SURPLUS in decades. </li>
<li>$400 billion in debt was paid
off during time as Speaker, although Gingrich agreed with Reagan on deal
that ended up running deficits until 1988. </li>
<li>Fought and defeated HillaryCare both in strategy, as well as political and legislative maneuvering. </li>
<li>On third try got a Democratic President and Senate to initiate Welfare Reform that put 60% of recipients to work. </li>
<li>Gingrich’s pro-life voting record is 98.6%, 70 out of 71 votes. </li>
<li>Brought two partial birth abortion bills to Clinton that served as the model for what was passed under George W. Bush. </li>
<li>He
helped Reagan’s initiative to eliminate 12 of 94 programs and cut
budgets of many others like the SBA more than 50%. (Life Lesson: SBA
grew afterward to over 10X it’s original budget. If you don’t eliminate a
it, it will always grow bigger.) </li>
<li>He identified, recruited,
campaigned for and helped organize the biggest minority opposition
swing in US modern history getting 367 Congressional candidates to sign
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America" target="_blank">Contract With America</a>. <b>This resulted in a NET GOP pickup of 52 seats in the House, 8 in the Senate and 11 Governorships</b>. GOPAC founder <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/what-did-gopac-founder-think-of-newt.html" target="_blank">Pete DuPont</a> and Paul Weyrich both didn’t believe it could be done. </li>
<li>Multiple conservatives congressmen got their political start including: <ul>Jon Kyl <br />Mike DeWine <br />Jim Inhofe <br />Fred Thompson <br />Bill Frist <br /><b>Rick Santorum </b></ul>
</li>
<li>Contract With America - (<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-contract-with-america-implementing-new-ideas-in-the-us" target="_blank">1995 Description</a>): “…represented the culmination of <u>30 years of creative conservative thinking</u> dealing with the basic social and economic problems of modern America. The ideas provided the background for the <u>widest range of legislative initiatives, certainly since the 1930s, and possibly at any time in American political history</u>.” <br /> <br />The
ten items in the Contract were all acted upon in the first 100 days of
the new Congress, which is what the signatories had pledged. Nine of the
ten items in the Contract passed the House: Only the constitutional
amendment on term limits (which required a two-thirds vote) was
defeated. Out of a total of 302 roll call votes on issues related to the
Contract With America, the conservatives prevailed on 299 of them. A
balanced budget amendment passed in the House by a 300-123 margin but
was subsequently defeated as it fell one vote short of the two-thirds
needed for passage in the U.S. Senate. The overall margin by which the
items in the Contract were passed averaged about 70 percent despite the
fact that the Republicans only held a 12-seat margin over the Democrats
(52-48 percent, the smallest House majority margin in 40 years). Given
the notorious lack of party discipline in the American Congress, the
passage by a large majority of nearly all of the items in the Contract
was a remarkable achievement. <br /> <br />I can’t adequately cover all 10 initiatives and their profundity but they include: <ul>
<li>Congressional Reform including Congress being subject to the law they pass </li>
<li>Balanced Budget with Line Item Veto (failed Senate, passed Veto but declared unconstitutional) </li>
<li>Anti-crime package (truth in sentencing, more law enforcement help) </li>
<li>Personal Responsibility (ultimately became Welfare Reform) </li>
<li>Tax Package Including Child Tax Credit, Elimination of Marriage Penalty, Savings Account, Middle Class Tax Relief </li>
<li>Disallow US Troops from serving under foreign authorites like the UN </li>
<li>Frivolous Litigation vetoed by Clinton but tort reform override veto. </li>
<li>Job
Creation act included capital-gains cuts and indexation, neutral cost
recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_Flexibility_Act">Regulatory Flexibility Act</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandate">unfunded mandate</a> reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. <br /> <br />Other
sections of the Contract include a proposed Family Reinforcement Act
(tax incentives for adoption, strengthening the powers of parents in
their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and elderly
dependent care tax credit) and the Senior Citizens Fairness Act (raise
the Social Security earnings limit, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social
Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care
insurance). <br /> <br />The only bill that failed was Term Limits. </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>He
is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for
Major Generals at Air University and taught officers from all five
services as an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at
the National Defense University. <br /> <br /> <br /><b><u>His “Liberal” Legislation?</u></b> </li>
<li>Voted for Department of Education with Carter in first term. </li>
<li>Supported Reagan in Simpson-Mazzoli Amnesty Bill </li>
<li>Voted to raise taxes twice with Reagan. </li>
<li>Would vote for earmarks in exchange for conservative legislative votes. </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>When
Newt became Speaker in 1995 congressional approval was about 20%. When
he resigned the Speakership four years later, it was about 60%. <br />(Now it is at 11%).</b></span><br />
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From: <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/12/is-newt-fat-white-obama-progressive.html" target="_blank">Is Newt A Fat White Obama Progressive?</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><b><u>NEWT GINGRICH RECORD: CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-UDdY75rf2qY/TuUpRk2j5uI/AAAAAAAABsI/gG-5gA3L1vc/s1600-h/949901012522016%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="949901012522016" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2Diy6e9Ate4/TuUpRzu4lyI/AAAAAAAABsQ/KvOaBo2pbso/949901012522016_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="161" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 3px;" title="949901012522016" width="161" /></a>
Unlike Obama, Cain, (and to some extent Bachmann), there is no lack of
speeches, books - and most importantly – votes to find out who Newt
is. The Club for Growth has an exhaustive <a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/assets/files/FINAL-Gingrich-White-Paper.pdf" target="_blank" title="RIGHT CLICK TO DOWNLOAD PDF AS FILE">PDF white paper</a> on Newt and there are many other conservative sources including the American Conservative Union (Rating <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/08/nation/la-na-1209-gingrich-conservative-20111209" target="_blank">90%</a>). </span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">So how do people like Beck make the jump that a man <br />William F. Buckley called, “profoundly committed free trader,” progressive and worse?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Because it’s not <i>100%</i>
conservative. Gingrich admitted to CBN recently that he regretted his
vote for the Department of Education and evolved from a Rockefeller
Republican (liberal republican) into a conservative. Who hasn’t,
right? Except that many like Reagan didn’t have a contiguous public
voting record during the change. So what were these terrible
“Progressive” votes of his: </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted YES on the Reagan tax cut of 1981</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted YES on the Reagan tax reform bill of 1986</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted NO on the George H.W. Bush "Read My Lips" tax hike in 1990.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted NO on the Chrysler bailout in 1979</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted YES on the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget bill in 1985</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voted YES on a balanced budget amendment (as part of the "Contract for America" effort that he led) in 1995</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Led the effort and voted YES to cut $16.4 billion from the budget in 1995. <br />Voted YES on welfare reform in 1996</span> </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I’m
sure Beck would claim this was ALL a setup to seduce non-suspecting
patriots into a hypnotic state until he could REALLY get his hands on
power! AH HA! Only one problem. He <a href="http://rightwingnews.com/election-2012/newt-gingrich-matt-salmon-principles-and-pragmatism/" target="_blank">barely survived a battle</a>
against DeLay and Boehner (who couldn’t make an argument for crony
capitalism and progressive against these two right?), and STEPPED DOWN
from his Speakership and Congressional seat after winning election.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">AND
FINALLY we have an important point – apart from the insane and
uninformed ravings of those on our side. Gingrich did not feel that
pressing for hardcore conservative positions with a Democrat President
would serve our purpose. Especially after they had successfully enacted
welfare reform and balanced budgets by working WITH Democrats than
against them. And this is a good argument. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: medium;"><b>Is it better to remain in power and do SOME good, or stand on principle and lose all power to do any good?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gtDALOFGO8w/TuUpSRF4iUI/AAAAAAAABsY/oAsx1TNuQjg/s1600-h/NewtAtACU%25255B3%25255D.png"><img align="right" alt="NewtAtACU" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9h8XJJIfUw0/TuUpS0anzdI/AAAAAAAABsg/6Lu1tRTohJ0/NewtAtACU_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" height="165" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="NewtAtACU" width="244" /></a>
ACU’s Keene calls Gingrich a partisan but NOT a conservative although
he admits his speakership was basically conservative. (Figure that one
out.) But if he is not a conservative, why did he create and fulfill
the VERY conservative CONTRACT WITH AMERICA? And why did those who
argued AGAINST Gingrich’s leadership – end up running the franchise into
the ground that gave us Pelosi and Reed? Was the prescription drug and
Head Start programs under Bush better under the anti-Newt forces?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I
think like the Roosevelt and the Clinton years the “TIMES” will make
Gingrich. We would like to think of our leaders as the William
Wilberforce's of history who have one true guiding NORTH and would
rather lose the argument for decades until the ship aligns to their
view. Gingrich instead seems fine going from NORTHWEST to NORTHEAST to
stay on the ship. His impact AS A LEADER on the LAST MAJOR REPUBLICAN
victory (Balanced Budgets, Welfare Reform) seem to me to not only make
Beck’s argument silly about being a progressive – but also diminish the
REAL records of Santorum and Bachmann. It is one thing to vote on a
measure – or even sponsor a bill. it is quite another to motivate
dozens of other leaders to a cause and actually WIN a battle or a war.
This Gingrich did.</span><br />
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I have had many interactions with Cruz supporters continuing to herald his qualifications as a "Constitutional Conservative." I debate that on the merits of his record. I am not suggesting that Ted Cruz is Harry Reid. But he is not Antonin Scalia either. It is important to put outisde the talking points, the PR and campaign ads and look at the facts:<br />
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<b><u>Article One</u></b><br />
<ul>
<li>Cruz was very good bringing attention to the problems of ObamaCare. But since he has been silent on it's <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2010/03/15/unconstitutional-procedure-being-used-to-pass-unconstitutional-obamacare/" target="_blank">unconstitutional passing</a>. At one tim ehe was willing to shut down government. But after giving the Republican Establishment a donatoin of $240,000 from his PAC and taking a position as joint Chairman of the NRSC, he complains about the law, but brings no attention to the subversion of the process. Few recall how Harry Reid changed Senate rules to bypass the Scott Brown election that kept the Democrats from obtaining the 60 votes needed to pass ObamaCare outright. They changed the rules to only require a simple majority, and we've never heard a filibuster or lawsuit from Cruz since. Pelosi's unconstitutional adoption of a Senate military housing bill to make a 'revenue' ObamaCare bill is in violation of the Constitution which clearly defines that revenue bills must originate in the House. Reid and company used political procedures to override both the law and intent of the Constitution. <b>Cruz has used similar tactics including in the passing of ObamaTrade</b>.</li>
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<ul>
<li>Ted Cruz authored the Senate bill for ObamaTrade (or TPP/TPA). <a href="https://youtu.be/NAMovbbQBRg" target="_blank">He took to the airwaves with Rand Paul to speak vigorously for it</a>. What does the Trans-Pacific Trade treaty do? It subverts the US Constitution by placing the authority of US interests and companies under the power of the World Bank and foreign countries that represent over 40% of the world GDP. Jeff Sessions said at the time:</li>
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....companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations,
rules, government actions and court rulings — federal, state or local —
before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations...
critics, including many Democrats in Congress, argue that the planned
deal widens the opening for multinationals to sue in the United States
and elsewhere, giving greater priority to protecting corporate interests
than promoting free trade and competition that benefits consumers.<sup>12</sup> </blockquote>
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And it's far worse. Foreign investors could sue the Federal, State, County and City entities for any US investment they made that went bad - even if it had nothing to do with those government entities involved. </blockquote>
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One foreign government could bankrupt a state under the jurisdiction of foreign powers. The Huffington Post <a href="http://www.cairco.org/highlights/secretive-sovereignty-subverting-trans-pacific-partnership" target="_blank">restated one provision this way</a>:</blockquote>
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"(International companies and investors) can collect not just for lost property
or seized assets; they can collect if laws or regulations interfere
with these giant companies' ability to collect what they claim are
"expected future profits."<sup>16</sup> </blockquote>
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<b>Again, Ted Cruz AUTHORED this bill</b>. Many Cruz followers repeat his assertion that he had second thoughts and voted against it. Many recall the MSM soundbite from Cruz that "Mitch McConnell lied." This had nothing to do with the TPP bill itself, but with an amendment that funded the Import/Export Bank. <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/31/ted-cruz-flip-flops-now-says-he-supports-fair-trade/" target="_blank">Ted continued to support ObamaTrade, and even engineered the Senate confirmation in a way that his individual vote would not be recorded</a>. Furthermore Cruz affirmed this this past November by voting AGAINST a provision (<a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00189" target="_blank">Senate Amendment 1251</a>) that stated:</blockquote>
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"To require the approval of Congress before
additional countries may join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement”… </blockquote>
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<b>Look up the vote yourself.</b> </blockquote>
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In other words, Senator Cruz did not want congress to be consulted before other countries, including China, could join TPP and put us directly under international law and foreign powers.</blockquote>
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If that isn't bad enough, it also would flood the United States with foreign workers, and remove MANY protections already in law. Via <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/06/tpp-overrides-immigration-protections-u-s-professionals-skilled-workers-says-critic/" target="_blank">Breitbart</a>: </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Even if the migrant foreign workers (<i>coming from foreign companies and governments as part of the TPP allowance</i>) are paid American wage-levels, the huge influx of foreign workers will flood the U.S. market and
drive down wages paid to American technicians and professionals. “It is
pure supply-and-demand,” she said. For example, “if you increase the
supply of legal services, you increase the number of law firms, you
reduce the wages of [American] lawyers...”</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
On this measure, the TPP is written so foreign powers could literally force us to rewrite our immigration laws. Forget Gang of Eight. Any Constitutional - well, almost any Constitutional scholar, can see that this subverts the entire intent of Article I powers.</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Ted Cruz claimed he would "talk until he couldn't stand" at the ObamaCare filibuster although according to Harry Reid's Communication Director, not only would Cruz have to abandon the floor for a per-scheduled vote, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ted-cruz-filibuster-097338" target="_blank">Cruz had negotiated the PR ploy with Reid in the first place</a>. Most conservatives like myself are happy for the attention it brought,
but it shows that Cruz is not the "purist" he sells himself to be. In fact the very filibuster itself is believed to be unconstitutional. It most certainly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/is-the-filibuster-unconstitutional/2012/05/15/gIQAYLp7QU_blog.html" target="_blank">is abused and Cruz was part of that</a>. But on aspects of Iran, the ObamaCare funding budget and other GOP establishment rubber stamps for Obama, Cruz no longer attempts the use of this tool he said was so critical to our Constitution.</li>
</ul>
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<b><u>Article Two and Three</u></b><br />
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Ted Cruz's website boldly lies "NO CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR BELIEVES CRUZ TO BE INELIGIBLE FOR PRESIDENT.<u>"</u><br />
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<b>However scholarship papers and Notable Officials to the contrary are legion including Ted Cruz's own Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe</b>. A few include:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Catholic Law University Review <b><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2444766" target="_blank">PDF</a></b> (Also explains why other scholars get it wrong)<br />
(Layman Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html" target="_blank">article</a> by same Delaware Law School professor/historian)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2016/02/trump_is_right_ted_cruz_is_not_eligible_to_be_president.html" target="_blank">University of Chicago Professor Posner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/297154489/Amending-the-Natural-Born-Citizen-Requirement-Globalization-as-t" target="_blank">Chicago Kent Law Review</a> (from a Leftist, Globalist, New World Order perspective)</li>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/08/former-michigan-governor-raises-questions-about-cruzs-eligibility-video" target="_blank">Governor of Michigan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://citizenwells.com/2016/01/17/ted-cruz-harvard-law-professor-cruz-not-eligible-born-in-canada-not-natural-born-citizen-laurence-h-tribe-also-obama-professor-i-cannot-support-ted-cruz-and-disregard-for-us-constitution-many-ex/" target="_blank">Michigan Law Review</a></li>
<li>Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration and Policy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007052924/http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/FirstImpressions/107-FI/chin.pdf" target="_blank">University of Arizona</a> </li>
<li>Maine Governor Paul LePage (<a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/bombshell-governor-paul-lepage-endorsed.html" target="_blank">Daughters born in Canada and researched issue years ago</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huckabee-santorum-join-gop-voices-in-questioning-cruzs-citizenship/" target="_blank">Governor Huckabee and Senator Santorum</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/11/through-ted-cruz-constitutional-looking-glass/zvKE6qpF31q2RsvPO9nGoK/story.html" target="_blank">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lee-is-ted-cruz-eligible-to-be-president-20160110-story.html" target="_blank">Fordham Law Professor</a></li>
<li>Former <a href="http://www.newsday.com/opinion/ted-cruz-ineligible-to-be-president-according-to-history-1.11466068" target="_blank">Chief Judge of the State of New York</a> and an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Touro Law School </li>
<li><a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-winston-churchill-was-not-even.html" target="_blank">Winston Churchill</a> (In EXACT situation as Cruz with US mother, and foreign birth & father)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33676461/Founder-and-Historian-David-Ramsay-Defined-Natural-Born-Citizenship-in-1789-by-Atty-Mario-Apuzzo" target="_blank">Founder/Historian David Ramsey 1789 Constitutional Explanation of "Citizenship"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://libertyborn.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/new-evidence-1790-naturalization-act/" target="_blank">1795 Congressional Notes</a> (explaining repeal of 1790 "natural born" Act) <b><a href="http://natural-borncitizens.com/nbcfiles/nbc_McElwee.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a></b></li>
<li><a href="https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/20/trump-is-right-about-cruzs-presidential" target="_blank">Libertarian REASON magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/2016/01/claims-that-sen-cruz-is-not-natural-born-need-to-be-taken-seriouslyrob-natelson.html" target="_blank">Independence Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/12/debating-whether-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen/" target="_blank">Case Western Law Professor</a> (changed mind to now doubt earlier position Cruz eligible) </li>
</ul>
<b> </b>Harvard Law Professor, Former Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to Obama's campaign,<b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank">Einer Elhauge</a>, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/obama-advisor-harvard-law-professors-ny.html" target="_blank"><b>filed an amicus brief</b> </a>at the New York Supreme Court advising the court that <a href="http://po.st/BXspGl" target="_blank">Canadian-born Ted Cruz</a> is not eligible to be president under the <a href="http://wp.me/pPOcT-4w9" target="_blank"><i>Article II <u>natural born Citizen</u></i> requirement</a>. Elhauge also says it's not a political question but a Constitutional one.<br />
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The Supreme Court Ruling in <a href="http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17/177/1555913/" target="_blank">Wong vs Ark</a> says this:<br />
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"<u>Citizenship by naturalization can only be acquired </u><b>*180</b>
by naturalization under the authority and in the forms of law. <u>But
citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the
circumstances defined in the constitution</u>. Every person born <b>in </b>the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a
citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. <u><b>A person
born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a
citizen by being naturalized</b></u>, </blockquote>
Being "naturalized" is different from being a native citizen.<br />
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Despite this Constitutional scholar <a href="http://cnn.it/1TjHhN1" target="_blank">Ted Cruz told CNN</a> that the entire issue over whether he is eligible or not is "not important. He went on to claim that "<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">The very first Congress defined citizens born abroad as natural born citizens." As shown at the list link above, historian and Founding Father Dave Ramsey, who literally wrote the book <b>"Citizenship" in 1789</b> SPECIFICALLY outlines that it is to be defined as a <b>child born on US soil</b> <b>to TWO parents who are United States citizens</b>. The <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">Founders spent quite a bit of effort on this provision</a> wanting protections that a President would have loyalty to our country from the aspects of birth and the upbringing. A "native Texan" is one who was born in Texas. If you came when you were 5, you are not a native. Throughout the Founder's writings they use "native" to be equal to born on US soil. In the 1875 Supreme Court decision Minor vs Happersett the court specifically mentions that the definition of "natural born citizen" is not in the Constitution but </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="headertext">"<b>it was never doubted</b> that all children <b><u>born <span style="color: red;">in</span> a
country</u></b> of <u><b>parent<span style="color: red;">s</span> who were its citizens</b></u> became themselves, upon their
birth, citizens also. These were <b>natives</b> or <b>natural-born citizens</b>, as
distinguished from aliens or foreigners"</span></blockquote>
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">However, Cruz and his apologists often cite the Immigration Act of 1790 labeling foreign born children of US parents "<b>as</b>" natural born citizens. Not only doesn't it say "<b>are</b> natural born citizens," but the Act was completely repealed in 1795 and the language replacing it removed the "natural born" association altogether. We have the House Committee notes (link above) that explains one reason the Act was repealed and replaced, rather than amended it, was in part due to the potential confusion of future generations to unconstitutionally apply the poorly worded language. As a "Constitutional scholar" shouldn't Cruz know this?</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">Another Senator does. </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLyKAsOrjps/VvQnM_PnJEI/AAAAAAAAcO8/lbu4byIe-UwNKapsm0fiO_mxIFnNLgorw/s1600/Sen.-Mazie-Hirono-360x450.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLyKAsOrjps/VvQnM_PnJEI/AAAAAAAAcO8/lbu4byIe-UwNKapsm0fiO_mxIFnNLgorw/s200/Sen.-Mazie-Hirono-360x450.jpg" width="160" /></a><br />
Current
Hawaiian US Senator Mazie Hirono was born to a US citizen mother and a
foreign father in a foreign land just like Rafael Ted Cruz. Her mother brought her to the US when
she was seven years old. <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/24/if-sen-mazie-hirono-is-a-naturalized-citizen-how-is-ted-cruz-natural-born/" target="_blank">She defines herself as an immigrant is a "naturalized citizen" according to her biography</a>. <br />
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When running for Senate, <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz ADMITTED to a GOP Assemblywoman and Latino paper that he was not eligible to be President</a>. His story changed when he saw the opportunity to run for President.<br />
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<u>Is Ted Cruz a US Citizen and Eligible to be a US Senator?</u> <br />
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What makes the Constitutional questions far worse is the lack of evidence that Ted Cruz or his parents filed the necessary paperwork to confirm his citizenship - much less his NATIVE or Natural Born Citizenship. As Governor LePage of Maine has stated, his girls were born in Canada, and the US still required documentation for them to retain their American citizenship and legally enter the United States as such when LePage and his wife returned to the United States. <b>To this day, Cruz has only released his Canadian birth certificate.</b> By his own admission he was a Canadian citizen until approximately 18 months ago, and yet his immigration records from 1974, his passport application from 1986 and his passport records have been sealed together with his college records. On what basis could he Constitutionally run for United States Senate without having been a US citizen for 9 years?<br />
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This lack of documentation then leads to speculation on what basis did his family come to the United States. Although unverified, most accept that Cruz's mother was likely a US citizen. However Rafael Cruz Sr, took Canadian citizenship in 1973 before Ted was born. He did not become a US citizen until 2005. On what legal basis did he stay in the United States? Was he on a renewable visa during that time? We don't know. Similarly, without a Consular Report of Birth Abroad filed on Ted's behalf by his mother at a US embassy, there is a strong case that Ted Cruz is possibly not even a US citizen. <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/21/child-born-to-two-natural-born-citizens-overseas-shows-birth-certificate-affirms-i-am-naturalized/" target="_blank">Others who have been in the same situation as Ted Cruz, have disclosed their immigration documents and process</a>. At least <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/27/nalc-lead-attorney-documents-obtained-from-canada-on-ted-cruz/" target="_blank">one legal group</a> believes the documentation suggests he is an "undocumented alien."<br />
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So how can a "Constitutional scholar" determine the laws of citizenship of other legal and illegal immigrants when he has not fully disclosed the proper documentation for his own immigration?<br />
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The other Article II issue where Ted Cruz has a clear track record, is that of the appointment by the President for nominees to the Supreme Court. It was Ted Cruz who recruited, vetted and championed the appointment of John Roberts under George Bush 43. Roberts, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/28/obamacare-supreme-court-ruling-john-roberts-changes-his-legacy.html" target="_blank">was the deciding vote</a>
in a 2012 Supreme Court case that upheld the Affordable Care Act’s
individual mandate, practically ending the debate about the
constitutionality of Obamacare. Again, Ted Cruz <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/13/trump-s-not-wrong-cruz-loved-the-justice-the-right-hates.html" target="_blank">lied in the debates</a> as evidenced by the emails he wrote in 2005 that he had nothing to do with Robert's nomination. Even without the first hand testimony of Jeb Bush's discussion with his brother, it's clear Cruz worked diligently on making sure Roberts was nominated. Among Ted's many emails in support of Roberts appointment <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/13/trump-s-not-wrong-cruz-loved-the-justice-the-right-hates.html" target="_blank">he wrote</a>:<br />
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“one of the very best advocates ever,” who
exemplified “how to try to carry out our craft with the highest level of
skill and integrity.”</blockquote>
In an op-ed for the National Review he wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him,” </blockquote>
It would be unfair to blame Cruz for the judicial decisions of Roberts when the exalted Ronald Reagan had less than conservative results with Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Conner. But Cruz must also accept responsibility when he claims he would be better than other candidates in selecting Supreme Court nominees when we see the results of specific efforts he made in a real life situation.<br />
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<u><b>Article Four</b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 16px;">US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4:</span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 16px;"><i>“The
United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican
Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 16px;">James Madison:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 16px;"><i>“When we are
considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of
naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to
guard against abuses … aliens might acquire the right of citizenship,
and return to the country from which they came, and evade the laws
intended to encourage the commerce and industry of the real citizens and
inhabitants of America, enjoying at the same time all the advantages of
citizens…”</i></span></blockquote>
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When Scott Walker announced his campaign for President, he quickly stunned his conservative followers by saying he was open to amnesty for illegal aliens. <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruz-hasnt-ruled-out-legal-status-undocumented-imigrants" target="_blank">The Cruz campaign quickly floated the notion that <span style="color: red;"><b>Ted Cruz was open to some legal status for illegal immigrants</b></span></a>. Most illegal immigration like Numbers USA and the National Immigration Council have pointed out how evasive Cruz has been on immigration. His vigorous arguments against Obama's Executive Amnesty were quickly diluted by his five amendments to the Gang of Eight bill which he testified (below) was trying to improve it to get it passed. Then, as his campaign began, he tried to spin the notion that these efforts were a "poisoned pill" to get it defeated. Watch below at how sincere he is attempting to convince his audiences of both sides at different times. <br />
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Few realize the <a href="http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-islamic-invasion-of-america-has-already-begun" target="_blank">insidious Muslim invasion underway</a> and has been expanded by the Obama administration. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees have been surreptitiously planted in small towns overrunning social services and destroying the culture and the economic well being of US communities that have existed over a hundred years. It seems their placement is calculated to be in areas so remote from large media venues to go unnoticed. <a href="http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-islamic-invasion-of-america-has-already-begun" target="_blank">One woman in Maine</a> who saw this attempt by the Federal Government has become the intellectual leader of the American movement to stop this.<br />
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<blockquote>
Through her years of research, Corcoran found that Muslim
immigration is a form of jihad through colonization called hijra, which
she reports dates back to the time of Mohammad. According to Corcoran,
the Muslim Brotherhood pursues the hijra strategy.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote>
Corcoran’s sources detail that the migration is actually a religious obligation, in which Muslims are required to spread Islam.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote>
“If you don’t help counter the hijra, we are in my opinion, doomed,” warned Corcoran. </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote>
She notes Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, who said Europe
wouldn’t be conquered by guns and swords, but instead by Muslim
immigration.</blockquote>
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Given the words of James Madison describing the intent of our Constitution toward illegals, Ted Cruz's positions on refugees are worth noting in the video below: <br />
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Breitbart, Heritage and other conservative publications have spelled out the Constitutional violation to which Senator Cruz seems oblivious. One instance from Breitbart:<br />
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The constitutional argument is that the federal government, without the permission of these 12 Wilson-Fish states, has <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1994/12/bg1011nbsp-home-rule-how-states" target="_blank">“commandeered”</a>
state funds by placing refugees in their states, thereby obligating
states to pay Medicaid expenses for the refugees, in violation of the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which <a href="http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/tenth-amendment" target="_blank">states</a>,
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”<br />
In effect, the federal government is imposing an unfunded federal
mandate by regulatory fiat, rather than statutory authority, on these 12
“Wilson-Fish alternative program” states.</blockquote>
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Obama has issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim countries. <b>Ted Cruz authored a bill to <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/amazing-speech/#st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/7xKKQYSUtN" target="_blank">DOUBLE THAT NUMBER</a></b>. In addition to destroying even more US jobs, it seems that Cruz is facilitating the destruction of America through hijad of humanitarian and legal means. It seems hard to believe that it is intentional. But he can only either be a dupe of the invasion, a politician who will change his views to whatever his political purposes need (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_t_pc4YBk" target="_blank">as Carly Fiorina has said</a>), or complicit. Listen to Jeff Session' Senior Policy Adviser talk about his experiences with Ted Cruz in 2013 during the Immigration battle. Personal knowledge of what Cruz did to subvert conservative values.<br />
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<b><u>Article Six</u></b><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. </blockquote>
Contrary to the Cruz campaign's assertion, the Founders did not institute a litmus test for how "religious" someone is or what precise religion that might be.<br />
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<br />
<b><u>Amendment I</u></b><br />
<b><u></u></b><br />
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Cruz has not rebuked
supporters who have tried to silence opponents through a "blacklist"
that would go so far as to stop journalists critical of Ted Cruz from gaining
employment. This is Soviet-style tactics, and although not a government activity, against the spirit of our country and the First Amendment. Cruz isn't proposing a law, but considering the coercion by Cruz supporters from StandByMichelle to Amanda Carpenter without any disavowing from him, one can not assume our liberties will be any safer under his administration should he be elected. He certainly has not jumped to defend the Constitutional rights of Trump to assemble in private venues without obstruction.<br />
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<b><u>Amendment IV</u></b><br />
<br />
It has been widely reported that Ted Cruz has the second worst attendance in the Senate (excluding Harry Reid who had health issues.) His absences exceed the combined total of Feinstein, Boxer and comedian Al Franken. What is not reported is that he has <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-2016-armed-services-committee-attendance-116522" target="_blank">the worst attendance record of any Senator</a> of the Armed Services Committee, which is well below 50%. He also has voted "no" against the Defense bill appropriations for three years in a row, which includes pay raises for the military and veteran housing needs. His objection is that a provision against US citizens from being detained abroad is missing. He has not been able to lead his fellow Senators to include this in any of the three years bills. His justification against REAL needs of the military is to vote "no" three times in a row against what IS in the bill and instead votes "no" for what isn't in it. He had no problem however voting "Yes" to giving Iran - who has declared war against the United States - real nuclear and economic power despite the fact Obama won't call them a terrorist supporting country. This seems to be an inconsistent application of his principles and hurts the very military he claims he supports.<br />
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<b><u>Amendment VIII</u></b><br />
<br />
David Brooks, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reported on a case of</a> <u>Michael Wayne Haley</u> who was arrested after stealing a
calculator from Walmart. The maximum sentence allowable was two years
but a court error had sentenced him to 16 years. Ted Cruz had the
ability and authority to let Haley go for "time served" but instead,
Cruz used the case to build his career by arguing an obscure point of
law before the Supreme Court. <b>Ted Cruz made Haley stay in jail the full
16 years for stealing a $1 calculator</b>. Brooks writes:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The case reveals something interesting about Cruz’s character. Ted Cruz
is now running strongly among evangelical voters, especially in Iowa.
But in his career and public presentation Cruz is a stranger to most of
what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility,
mercy, compassion and grace. Cruz’s behavior in the Haley case is almost
the dictionary definition of pharisaism: an overzealous application of
the letter of the law in a way that violates the spirit of the law, as
well as fairness and mercy.</blockquote>
It is true that the Supreme Court found in favor of Ted Cruz's argument on behalf of the State of Texas. The Supreme Court ruling by itself does not justify it as it also found for the right to kill unborn children and call a coercive government mandate to buy health insurance a "tax.". For a country founded in the footsteps of John Adams, who helped a British soldier be acquitted during the revolution, it certainly is not the spirit - if not the letter of the law.<br />
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<b><u>Amendment X</u></b><br />
<br />
From <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/053315_Ted_Cruz_Monsanto_anti-science_zealots.html" target="_blank">Natural News</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Ted Cruz believes that Americans have the right to buy a gun, but not to read a food label</b> informing them of toxic dangers.
Apparently GMOs are far more dangerous than guns in the mind of Ted
Cruz, because GMOs must be hidden from the public even as guns are
readily accessible.</blockquote>
The FDA finally agreed to start testing food for GMO's long after 38 other countries have banned them. MIT, Purdue and hundreds of other universities have conclusive studies showing correlative, if not causal implications of over 22 diseases from GMO's and Monsanto's Round Up modifications. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/053315_Ted_Cruz_Monsanto_anti-science_zealots.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz calls these scientists and advocates "anti-science zealots."</a> Ted's vote for Monsanto (who spent enormous amounts of lobbying dollars and efforts) was actually a issue of state's rights. As Natural News <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040523_Monsanto_71_farm_bill_Senators.html" target="_blank">stated</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The only way to get GMOs labeled is to get it done state by state, and
these 71 U.S. Senators have now thrown down the gauntlet, stating they
believe <b>states have no right to mandate GMO labeling at the local level!</b><br />
<br />
Keep
that in mind the next time Rand Paul or Ted Cruz talks about "liberty
and justice" Where was their justice on the issue of GMO labeling? How
does keeping people in the dark on what they're eating create a more
free society?<br />
<br />
For God's sake, what does it take to get somebody
in Washington D.C. to consistently and unswervingly vote on the side of
liberty and freedom every single time?</blockquote>
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<u><b>Amendment VIV</b></u><br />
<br />
One of the other adjectives Cruz and his supporters attempt to use to define him is "consistent." Below you can see that Ted Cruz went from saying "there is no need to fight" birthright citizenship from the Fourteenth Amendment, and then he follows a few years later saying it should end.<br />
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Forget for a moment the conflict of interest which Ted Cruz has as an undocumented (see above) immigrant himself. It was only after Trump began to get backing from the conservative press to end "anchor babies"(<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422723/trumps-critics-are-wrong-about-14th-amendment-and-birthright-citizenship-edward-j" target="_blank">including the National Review which has devoted two entire issues to stopping Trump</a>) that Cruz changed his tune. This is hardly the sign of a "consistent" Constitutional view.<br />
<br />
Ann Coulter explains the crazy argument Cruz is making in his first position statement:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"...how could anyone — even a not-very-bright person — imagine that
granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is actually in
our Constitution? I know the country was exuberant after the war, but I
really don’t think our plate was so clear that Americans were consumed
with passing a constitutional amendment to make illegal aliens’ kids
citizens.</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Put differently: Give me a scenario — just one scenario — where
guaranteeing the citizenship of children born to illegals would be
important to Americans in 1868. You can make it up. It doesn’t have to
be a true scenario. Any scenario!</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>You know what’s really bothering me? If someone comes into the
country illegally and has a kid, that kid should be an American citizen!
</i></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Damn straight they should!<br />
<i></i></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>We’ve got to codify that. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
YOU MEAN IT’S NOT ALREADY IN THE CONSTITUTION?<br />
<i></i></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>No, it isn’t, but that amendment will pass like wildfire!</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
It’s like being accused of robbing a homeless person. (1) I didn’t; (2) WHY WOULD I DO THAT?</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Luckily,” as FNC’s Shannon Bream put it Monday night, Fox had an
“expert” to explain the details: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox’s senior
judicial analyst.<br />
Napolitano at least got the century right. He mentioned the Civil War
— and then went on to inform Bream that the purpose of the 14th
Amendment was to — I quote — “make certain that the former slaves and
the native Americans would be recognized as American citizens no matter
what kind of prejudice there might be against them.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Huh. </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In 1884, <b>16 years after the 14th Amendment was ratified</b>, John
Elk, who — as you may have surmised by his name — was an Indian, had to
go to the Supreme Court to argue that he was an American citizen because
he was born in the United States.<br />
He lost. In <i>Elk v. Wilkins</i>, 112 U.S. 94, <b>the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment did not grant Indians citizenship</b>.</blockquote>
<br />
<br />
So Ted Cruz says that he has looked at "all the arguments" and missed the Supreme Court ruling in 1884?<br />
<br />
<u><b>Amendment XVI</b></u><br />
<br />
In typical Ted Cruz fashion, he has proposed a VAT tax which is branded as a "Fair Tax." <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2016/01/15/ted-cruzs-business-flat-tax-is-a-vat/#4702f97b580f" target="_blank">Forbes was one of the first to call this out</a>. The difference is that a "fair tax" is transparent to the end buyer collecting the tax from the final seller of the transaction. The VAT tax buries taxes at every level of the wholesale transaction so the end consumer truly isn't aware of the "pre-tax" value of the purchase. Why is that important? As explained by <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/the-value-added-tax-should-be-political-poison-for-advocates-of-limited-government/" target="_blank">Dan Mitchell of CATO</a>, the VAT tax has accomplished two insidious things everywhere it's been introduced. <b> It dramatically expands government spending because of the new taxing authority across 'wholesale' businesses that currently do not collect tax. And it dramatically increases the power, size and authority of the revenue department</b>. <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/05/beware-the-value-added-tax" target="_blank">It also appears to ultimately RAISE income taxes in the countries where it is adopted as well</a>. The trade-off <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/repeal-the-16th-amendment-then-replace-it-with-vat-1448572952" target="_blank">pushed by most economists</a> in favor of it, is to replace the 16th Amendment with a VAT tax. And it would terrible.<br />
<br />
A VAT tax seems to be <a href="http://www.tax-freedom.com/Federal-Sales-or-VAT-Tax-Is-Unconstitutional.htm" target="_blank">prohibited and unconstitutional by Article 1</a>. Therefore Cruz is either proposing an unconstitutional tax as the basis of his economic policy, or just as dangerous, a Constitutional convention or Amendment process. The convention is dangerous because it can become a behind-closed-doors bartering system for the politicians to fill an Amendment with "pork" in exchange for their support. The ratification by the individual states narrows the issue to the proposed language in an up or down vote - but can take years to enact. And the benefits of initially reducing taxes in the economy are pushed out until it is passed, ratified and put into effect. Our economy can't wait that long. And our country would never be able to repeal it once it is in place.<br />
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2016/01/15/ted-cruzs-business-flat-tax-is-a-vat/#4702f97b580f" target="_blank">Forbes</a> - <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426997/value-added-tax-vat-rand-paul-ted-cruz" target="_blank">National Review</a> - <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Multimedia/Video/2010/08/Foster-CNBC-8-11-10" target="_blank">Heritage Foundation</a> - <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426997/value-added-tax-vat-rand-paul-ted-cruz" target="_blank">Economic Policy Journal</a> (<a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-and-mises-hayek-connection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FKpwH+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29" target="_blank">2</a>) - <a href="http://drrichswier.com/2016/02/22/ted-cruzs-vat-is-a-dangerous-gamble-by-daniel-j-mitchell/" target="_blank">CATO</a> </div>
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<u><b>Summary</b></u><br />
<br />
This recount does not take into account the many conservative actions and stances to which Cruz should be duly credited. He did defend the Second Amendment for the State of Texas. He did defend religious liberty with the Ten Commandment battle (again in Texas). He proposed voter registration requirements in the Senate and brought great awareness to the ObamaCare battle.<br />
<br />
But there are many mixed successes as well. He protected US sovereignty as Solicitor General of Texas in one case where Mexico wanted jurisdiction over two killers caught in the United States. However, his willingness to strip US authority in every foreign transaction through his ObamaTrade bill, he nullifies his right to claim "defense of US sovereignty" to qualify his constitutional credibility. The same is true with other accomplishments such as introducing the State Marriage Defense Act bill in an attempt to uphold the Constitutional authority of each state to define marriage. When given the chance to defend it as Solicitor General he <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-29/ted-cruz-anti-gay-marriage-crusader-not-always" target="_blank">refused to fight against gay marriage when requested to do so by the Mayor of Houston.</a> That is not consistent.<br />
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Cruz is not a liberal. But on the merits, There is no objective measure that he wins a title of a consistent Constitutional conservative.<br />
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<b><u>THE IOWA CARSON DECEPTION AND LIES CHRONOLOGY</u></b><br />
(Breitbart <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">timeline</a> - TalkingPointsMemo <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-carson-dirty-tricks-iowa-caucuses-timeline" target="_blank">timeline</a>)<u> </u><br />
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<li><b>6:41 pm </b><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">CNN tweets</a> Carson going to FL after IA but NOT dropping race.</li>
<li><b>6:44 pm </b>CNN’s Dana Bash says it is "unusual" but <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-cnn-republican-debate/" target="_blank">DOES NOT SAY CARSON dropping out</a>.</li>
<li><b>6:48 pm</b> <span style="color: red;">Amanda Carpenter FIRST to claim Carson is "releasing his voters."</span> </li>
<li><b>6:53 pm </b>Cruz campaign does NOT verify report with Carson, but <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">sends email/text/post </a>to that "Carson taking time off with big announcement next week."</li>
<li><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-carson-dirty-tricks-iowa-caucuses-timeline" target="_blank"><b>6:53 pm </b>Carson campaign clarifies report</a> that he is "only going home to get clean clothes" NOT dropping out of race. <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/boom-karl-rove-explains-how-cruz-camps-cheating-stole-iowa-from-trump-video/" target="_blank">Carson campaign tweets "We're here!"</a></li>
<li><b>7:00 pm Iowa Caucus Begins</b> </li>
<li><b>7:01 pm </b><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/boom-karl-rove-explains-how-cruz-camps-cheating-stole-iowa-from-trump-video/" target="_blank">Cruz campaign sends text/email blast to 1500 precinct chairpeople</a> implying Carson getting out of race, and to TELL CARSON supporters to vote for Cruz. Cruz Tweet <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/cruz-rumor-carson-575x565.jpg" target="_blank">here.</a></li>
<li><b>7:05 pm</b> Carson campaign <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">spokesperson clarifies Carson is in race</a>. </li>
<li><b>7:07 pm</b> <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/04/explosive-audio-surfaces-cruz-campaign-telling-iowa-precinct-captains-carson-had-dropped-out-of-race/" target="_blank">Cruz sends audio message</a> to campaign that Carson is getting out of campaign, "tell Carson supporters, and tell them to vote for Cruz."</li>
<li><b>7:12 pm</b> National Cruz Co-Chair, US Representative Steve King <a href="https://twitter.com/Cheri_Kentucky/status/694832471565832192" target="_blank">equates</a> "leaving early is same as suspending campaign."</li>
<li><b>7:20 pm</b> Even AFTER others protest to Rep. King, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/breaking-carson-accuses-cruz-camp-of-foul-play-at-iowa-caucuses/" target="_blank">King tweets</a>, "guess he's out. hope people vote for Cruz." </li>
<li><b>7:29 pm</b> Second audio goes to all Cruz supporters saying same as <b>7:07 pm </b>message.</li>
<li><b>7:30 pm</b> Major <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/694332832248958977" target="_blank">news broadcasters continue denials of false report</a>, and Cruz continuing to send out false messages - <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">CNN AGAIN sends clarifying tweet Carson is in</a>.</li>
<li><b>10:52 pm </b>Cruz Public Relations chief (Professional CIA disinformation operative with ties to George Soros) <a href="http://www.impulsetoday.com/breaking-ted-cruzs-pr-guy-who-slanders-trump-for-carson-lie-is-founder-of-shilling-company/" target="_blank">sends multiple tweets trying to blame Trump campaign, then deletes it</a>.</li>
<li>Cruz <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-cnn-republican-debate/" target="_blank">FLAT LIED that CNN had inaccurately reported that Carson was suspending his campaign</a> "from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15," and "<b>didn't correct that story until 9:15 that night</b>."</li>
<li> Cruz finally admits wrongdoing, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/carson-other-campaigns-sabotaged-us-dirty-tricks-n509396" target="_blank">apologizes to Ben Carson</a> - WHILE blaming CNN.</li>
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R), who opposed Cruz openly during the race, <a href="http://www.radioiowa.com/2016/02/04/branstad-says-cruz-employed-unethical-and-unfair-tactics-monday-night/" target="_blank">said Thursday</a> that Cruz’s tactics had been “unethical and unfair.”<br />
Also on Thursday, Carson said that the Cruz campaign never tried to verify the truth before sending false information to supporters.<br />
“As a Christian man, I accept the apology he has since offered and I take him at his word that he didn’t know,” Carson said. “But no actions have been taken to correct the problem. That I cannot accept.<br />
“One thing is now clear — while Senator Cruz may preach against the ‘Washington Cartel,’ he will still adopt, or at least not condemn, Cartel tactics for his own political gain,” Carson wrote.</blockquote>
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“It’s 100% true that he has affairs. All top-level staffers got an email directly from Heidi Cruz saying that she knew about it and it was ok, and for us to not concern ourselves with it.”</div>
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Social media matched an obscured photo in the National Enquirer article alleging Ted Cruz at least five mistresses while married to Heidi Cruz. Carpenter went dark on social media for about 18 hours as the story broke not denying the affair, but gave a lengthy interview to CNN claiming she has always remained faithful to her husband. She also claimed her relationship with Cruz was "entirely professional" despite numerous tweets publicized in the past days gushing over Senator Cruz and even wearing matching tattoos. Some <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/30/one-of-five-women-reportedly-identified-by-national-enquirer-dodges-question-about-legal-action/" target="_blank">reporters still believe here denials were carefully crafted</a> to give the appearance of fidelity, but with loopholes that would give her room to retract in the future. <br />
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The Still Report Part 2 below.. (Part 1 available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjidZCGhX_M&list=TL8YlzKeKcu90zMDAzMjAxNg&index=2&spfreload=5" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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There is a Facebook page called "As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots" that can "no longer stand by" while Heidi Cruz's reputation is called into question. Anyone who looks at my Twitter timeline can see that I defend her against the disgusting attacks on her looks or even the unfortunate incident in Austin uncovered by Buzzfeed.<br />
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It is important to look at Heidi through a political filter ONLY because we are told by Ted that she "helps him make every important decision together," and because former Goldman Sachs, current Chertoff Group Partner and Campaign Chairman Chad Sweet says that <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416095/ted-cruz-has-not-so-secret-weapon-2016-his-wife-joel-gehrke" target="_blank">Heidi is Ted's #1 adviser</a>. She also is his <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/politics/ted-cruz-2016-heidi-cruz-fundraiser/" target="_blank">leading fund raiser</a> and we are told it is now her full time job. Since the Cruz campaign has just <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/26/lyin-ted-cruz-campaign-refuses-to-give-fec-details-of-campaign-loans-from-goldman-sachs/" target="_blank">refused to cooperate with the FEC on the $1 Million loan</a> they received from Goldman Sachs - Heidi's employer who she refused to leave but take a leave of absence from, taking an honest, objective look at Heidi Cruz is very fair game. <br />
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Many have NOT taken the time to understand that not only did the Cruz's force the radical UN Agenda 21 plan via Heidi's participation on the North American Union and Ted's AUTHORSHIP of ObamaTrade, but they habitually lied about it.<br />
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<span data-offset-key="4o3r2-0-0"><span data-text="true">I absolutely believed Ted when he said that "didn't know" he was Canadian 2 years ago when the Dallas Morning News researched and discovered it. However, it took him nearly 6 months to actually file the papers with Canada to revoke his citizenship and CNN interviewed Princeton classmates who said not only did Cruz KNOW HE WAS CANADIAN, he bragged about it. (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html</a>) In fact, now that it is just beginning to be researched, we find out that Ted Cruz has SEALED his immigration, passport and school records just like Obama. His mother says she obtained a passport for him when Ted was a senior in High School, but we don't actually have ANY IMMIGRATION documents that he would have filed at 4 years old when his mother moved back to America, or the Consular Record of Birth Abroad that has been required since 1919 to registered children of US citizens abroad. We also don't know on what legal basis his father - who elected Canadian citizenship before Ted was born - and who didn't apply for American citizenship for over 35 years - was allowed into the country. Whether you believe he is a native American as the 1875 MINOR vs HAPPERSETT Supreme Court decision defined it or a natural born citizen as Founder Dave Ramsey wrote in the definition of US citizenship in 1789 - we do know that NO ONE has been allowed US entry or citizenship merely by showing up with a parent's birth certificate. WHY ARE THEY SEALED? There is much, much more intrigue on the matter at <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzCRBA">http://bit.ly/CruzCRBA</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzNBC">http://bit.ly/CruzNBC</a> .</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bdghf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Regardless - the Cruz's are NOT who they said they were when they ran for Senate. This is a major reason why Sarah Paln, Katrina Pierson and many of us who worked on the campaign can no longer support him.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/ted-cruzs-wife-heidi-cruz-ted-partnership-36631430" target="_blank">ABC interview</a>, Heidi Cruz says that her profession is fundraising. <br />
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The National Enquirer published an article today, saying that Ted Cruz has had extramarital affairs with at least 5 women. Even those who were convinced of the Texas Senator's <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzLies" target="_blank">well documented lying and deception</a> were taken surprise at the charge against the man who was exalted as the "godly" candidate for President. With operatives and supporters deeply embedded in the Evangelical circles, he embraced the call to "bring the country back to righteousness." Many of us <a href="http://bit.ly/DrBrownResponse" target="_blank">warned that this was a huge problem</a> not only because he was human, but also because it distorted the gospel message. That being that "righteousness" does not come from being good, but from the trust and faith that Jesus is 100% good in your place if you will trust and believe Him to be your Lord.<br />
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The evidence will continue to build, but the Washington Times has
confirmed that 2 of the 5 women named in the National Enquirer article
are indeed mistresses or former mistresses of Ted Cruz from their reporter Drew Johnson.<br />
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COMING CLEAN: From what I know, at least 2 of the women named as Cruz mistresses by the National Enquirer are accurate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRUMP?src=hash">#TRUMP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRUZ?src=hash">#CRUZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TCOT?src=hash">#TCOT</a></div>
— Drew Johnson (@Drews_Views) <a href="https://twitter.com/Drews_Views/status/713222276875812865">March 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
The Enquirer's lawyers adamantly stand by the story. For a complete run down on the story and evidence please visit <a href="http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/03/24/ted-cruz-sex-scandal-thoughts/" target="_blank">Danger & Play</a> and <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/24/the-national-enquirer-runs-story-of-multiple-ted-cruz-affairs/" target="_blank">The Conservative Treehouse</a>.<br />
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<span id="goog_1698948084"></span><span id="goog_1698948085"></span>Even without the knowledge that the National Enquirer
endorsed Mr. Trump recently and is owned by a close friend of his, many
immediately wanted to pass the charges off as cheap, tabloid tricks to
help Trump, to sell papers or both. Many likely aren't aware that the National Enquirer has been at the
forefront of many scandals, initially vehemently denied, but later found to be
100% accurate. Tiger Woods mistresses, Jesse Jackson's love child,
Steve Job's cancer, and Rush Limbaugh's Oxycontin addiction to name a
few.<br />
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In fact the Enquirer won a Pulitzer Prize for the
investigative journalism uncovering the mistress and child of
Presidential candidate Jonathan Edwards in 2008. The Enquirer's work
eventually not only ended Edwards political career, but it also was used in the
filing of criminal charges in the coverup. The effort that the publication
put forth <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-national-enquirer-got-the-john-edwards-scandal-scoop-2010-3" target="_blank">to get the story right is a drama in itself</a>. However upon winning the coveted award, the paper made it clear it would become specialists in this kind of thing even in politics.<br />
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Anecdotally,
defenders came from all sides - liberal and conservative - to affirm the
integrity of the paper. This from the comments section on the story at
the liberal leaning site Gawker:<br />
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The Cruz campaign marketing was pervasive. Even the day before the news broke, Glenn Beck was declaring that anyone who voted for Donald Trump wasn't a Christian. Evangelical pastors took to social media, airwaves and pulpits to "<a href="http://bit.ly/MaxDecency" target="_blank">take a stand for decency</a>," implying that Donald Trump was somehow not decent, and Ted Cruz was.<br />
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They explicitly played to religious and honorable tones as highlighted below in this sample email from early February:<br />
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Dear Friend,<br />
<br />
This won't be my typical email to you. I hope you will take a moment to read it. <br />
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If
you are like me, you are probably getting a little tired of all the
noise and media frenzy around this campaign. <span style="color: red;"><b>The personal attacks and
outright false claims are staggering</b></span>. <br />
<br />
There is so much
misleading information flying around on cable TV, the internet and the
so-called "mainstream" media -- it's enough to make good people abandon
this process and just turn it off altogether. <br />
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But, Friend,
despite how frustrating this process is -- it is of critical importance.
I will never give up fighting for Americans and working to win this
campaign because so much is on the line.<br />
<br />
I hope and pray you won't give up either. <br />
<br />
In fact, I'm so committed to winning this campaign I want to make you a
personal commitment today (and in a second I'm going to ask you to make
a commitment in return). <br />
<br />
<u><b>First, my commitment to you</b></u>: </blockquote>
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<li>I
will always be a consistent conservative -- both in word and deed. You
will never have to worry about me caving to the Washington
establishment. </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>I will always shoot straight with you. I will tell the truth.</b></span> <u><b>I will apologize when I make a mistake</b></u>. </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>I
will run an honorable campaign. I will discuss the difference between
candidates, but I will not engage in personal negative attacks. And when
I'm personally attacked, I will not respond in kind with vicious
below-the-belt revenge attacks.</b></span> </li>
<li>I will be a good steward of your support and financial investment in me. I want you to know your support is faithfully used. </li>
<li>I
will work as hard as I can, make personal and professional sacrifices
to win this campaign, and reignite liberty in our nation.</li>
<li> I don't make these commitments lightly. They are my heartfelt vows to you. </li>
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If you accept these commitments as my open pledge to you, then I'm hoping you will make a commitment to me as well.<br />
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Your commitment would mean a great deal to me, as I am just days away
from the votes being cast in South Carolina, and the stakes are
incredibly high. <br />
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<b>YES, I COMMIT</b><br />
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Honestly Friend, to win this campaign, I'm going to need your commitment because I cannot do it alone.<br />
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That's why I hope you will make the following commitment to me: <br />
<ol>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Commit
to pray. In the words of our savior Jesus Christ, where two or more
gather, He is there. And while I am blessed with an incredible prayer
team, I hope I can count on your prayers as well. </b></span></li>
<li>Commit to vote.
No matter which state you live in, your vote will have the power to help
shape this country, and I hope you will commit to vote for me. </li>
<li>Commit to support to this campaign and make an important donation when I need it most.</li>
</ol>
Our campaign is coming up against the most brutal opposition only days
before the next primary votes are to be cast, and to overcome it, I need
the renewed commitment of each and every supporter of my campaign -- no
matter the size.<br />
<br />
<b>YES, I COMMIT</b><br />
<br />
Friend, thank you
for taking the time to read my rather lengthy email. And thank you for
considering making a commitment to my campaign. <br />
<br />
This is our time, and together we can reignite liberty across America. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Heidi and I are forever grateful for you support.</b></span><br />
<br />
For liberty,<br />
<br />
Ted Cruz </blockquote>
In hindsight, it isn't hard to generate a bit of anger especially because he played on the Christian values of commitment and virtue. He took money under these pretenses as well.<br />
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Few may remember how adamantly the liberals disparaged the Enquirer
at stories concerning their Presidential candidate (Edwards) or those against Bill Clinton who claimed he "did not having sex with that woman,
Monica Lewinsky" from a silly little website called the Drudge Report. <b>But yes, this report is true</b>. There are other non-sexual <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzME" target="_blank">problems with the Cruz campaign developing</a> that may or may not continue to shock those who believed Ted to be the perfect Christian man.<br />
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The odd thing about all of this is that Americans, even most Christians, are quite forgiving. Largely because those of us who have walked a bit of life ourselves have fallen very short of our best aspirations and ideals. It also explains why Donald Trump so easily won the Evangelical vote in most of the primary states despite his past infidelity, multiple marriages and vulgarity. It was because Donald Trump never ran from his past mistakes that he was so popular. He didn't attempt to hide or blame anyone and many could discern his sincerity. At least those of us who were honest with our own personal evaluations of our shortcomings.<br />
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What these people do not understand, is that it is not the sin that is the issue. It is the hypocrisy, denial or irresponsibility of facing the truth. And for that Ted DOES need to come clean, an even ask our forgiveness for insulting our intelligence and using us.<br />
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But, the miraculous thing about the Jesus and the Christian faith, is that to be right with Him - <b>you do not have to be perfect</b>. <b>YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO GOD</b>. <br />
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I know that it is a radical concept to most Christians, but even your BEST days, doing the best things you know to do - are like "dirty rags" to the purity of God. It is why God the Father risked seeing his only son tortured and killed. Because He loved us enough to find a way for us to be at peace with Him. <br />
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Jesus ALREADY died for your sins. He doesn't need to die all over again for the new sins you committed today. Most of us, experiencing that kind of love DO want to apologize because we realize that we've harmed someone. <b>It isn't for our benefit it is for theirs</b>. God, however, doesn't require it.<br />
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You only have to accept that all the penalty and judgement <b>you deserve</b> was poured out upon Him on a cross in Jerusalem over 2,000 years ago. For those who have never accepted Christ as Lord, the book of Romans gives very simple direction.<br />
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<b>"...<span class="text Rom-10-9" id="en-NKJV-28198">if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."</span></b><br />
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That word "saved" is much deeper than just getting eternal life. It means to be healed, restored, and complete. Not just spiritually, but physically, emotionally, financially, and in every other way. And that IS hard to believe with all the world has taught us from our youth. But that is the amazing and astonishing gift from Jesus.<br />
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The <i><b>process </b></i>of trusting on an unseen God in Jesus, is no different for all of us - including Ted Cruz - to be forgiven for the sins AFTER we are saved. In fact, the radical idea for which Jesus was killed - is <b>that you literally do not have to do anything....but believe that He paid for all of your sin</b>, <b>for you to be forgiven</b>.<br />
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The same may not be true for those whom you have hurt. To them you owe it to them to ask forgiveness and possibly even make restitution. But God is not mad or upset. He not only already loves you, but <b>He has also already forgiven you</b>. The story of the adulteress who was being stoned is an example of that unmerited favor - or grace. She did nothing for Jesus to stop her accusers. And after they left, Jesus did not require groveling, or even sorrow for Him to declare that He did not condemn her either. She only believed, and acknowledged Him as Lord, for her to be declared free from her sin.<br />
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<span class="text Rom-3-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>But now the righteousness of God <b>apart from the law </b>is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, </span> <span class="text Rom-3-22" id="en-NKJV-28014"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>even <b>the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ</b>, to <u>all </u>and <u>on all who believe</u>. For there is no difference; </span> <span class="text Rom-3-23" id="en-NKJV-28015"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>for <u>all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God</u>, </span> <span class="text Rom-3-24" id="en-NKJV-28016"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup><b>being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus</b>, </span> <span class="text Rom-3-25" id="en-NKJV-28017"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>whom God set forth <i>as</i>
a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His
righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins
that were previously committed, </span> <span class="text Rom-3-26" id="en-NKJV-28018"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. <i>Romans 3 - NKJV</i></span></blockquote>
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The scripture above talks of that grace that is available to Ted Cruz. And he can demonstrate the real essence of God that he freely borrowed upon during his campaign, by showing how freely God can forgive, just by believing that God already forgives Him. It will be maddening to those who want him to be cast naked into a desert of snakes to "prove" he has accounted for his sins, but God has already paid that price between he and God.<br />
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And once he knows that, the Holy Spirit who dwells in Ted, can direct him on how to regain a life and trust of those who will continue to walk with him. Some may never forgive him. But just as Cain continue a life after murdering Abel, a different life can continue. There are stories across America of lives that held great promise, which are fulfilled in a different way. God can make that happen.<br />
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Many will require that Ted make this up to them in some way. Some requests he may not be able to fulfill. Almost all however, will require some level of acknowledgement of his guilt and the pain he has caused donors, volunteers and especially pastors who thought this was a way to help bring our country to a better understanding of God. To those people, Ted Cruz can finally fulfill the promise he made on the trail.<br />
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To be honest and come clean. ON EVERYTHING.<br />
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To be accountable.<br />
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To apologize for his mistakes.<br />
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And miraculously, the very sin that will have cost him his dream to be President, will serve as a real life example to millions to show how to comeback in God's grace from any devastating loss or self-inflicted fault of our own.<br />
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He doesn't need to apologize to anyone. Unless he wants to fulfill the calling God has for him now.<br />
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Maine GOP caucus turnout was 342% over 2008<br />(VA and TX were 110% and 109% where millions spent in ads)<br /> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every expert expected Trump to win, yet Cruz inexplicabl<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">y</span> won EVERY county. Cruz had only won a single county in New Hampshire in the NH and none, 4 hours away in MA 4 days before.<br /> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Chief Caucus Warden printed 80,000 ballots for a 30% turnout. No previous GOP caucus had been over 7% or 6,500 ballots cast.<br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 of the 3 billionaires who fund Cruz's campaign are leading computer technology icons including cutting edge campaigning systems and the first investor of Facebook who also owns the NSA's intelligence "engine."<br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hackers have published evidence that Minnesota's GOP had the EXACT primary results on their server ready to publish, the day before the MN primary was held.</span></b></li>
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The history of Utah voter fraud and machine obsolescence <a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/connecting-dots-on-vote-fraud.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Utah voter (fmr GOP leader) describes witnessing first hand voter fraud at Utah caucuses <a href="http://dcwhispers.com/utah-voter-tells-troubling-tale-sham-caucus/" target="_blank">here</a>. Cruz asks followers to break Utah law for absentee votes <a href="http://www.infowars.com/insider-cruz-campaign-encouraged-utah-voters-to-break-law/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Many were shocked at Ted Cruz's wins in Oklahoma, Kansas and Maine where, not only did he win states heavily polling for Trump by double digits, he won convincingly. Maine is especially interesting because, being a "blue" Northeastern state, not a single notable political pundit or the Cruz campaign itself, ever predicted this state would be in play, much less won by Ted Cruz. The final tally was Ted Cruz 46% to Donald Trump at 33% <b>a 13 point win</b>. This is especially shocking since nationally, in polls which aggregated Cruz-friendly red states, Trump was leading Cruz by approximately 35% to 20%. <b>This means Cruz exceeded expectations in Maine by nearly 30 points. </b>This is far worse than the 18 point swing in favor of Harry Reid's Senate race against Sharon Angle in 2010 who was leading the race by at least 7 points the day before the election. Although never proven or addressed by complaints to the Department of Justice, <a href="http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=SEIU+ballot+fraud+nevada+reid+angle&d=4771495457658698&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=KuX7ehYX26x50ztvhVMo7zSi_jwOsPsO" target="_blank">the Democrat activist union SEIU had the contract to "service" voting machines in Clark County</a> where Reid had an unprecedented turnout in his favor.<br />
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How then do we understand and account for the sudden rise in Cruz votes in Maine? <br />
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The GOP caucus was held on Saturday, March 5th and the DNC caucus was held the following day. In Chelsea<b>, </b>there were reports that the lines were over two
hours long and some people did leave early. That certainly could account for some percentage of the vote.<br />
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names not on the voting rolls, and many first time voters. Both Trump and Cruz visited Maine the week prior so neither had a substantial advantage in press or awareness. This could account for a rise in Cruz's visibility over Rubio and Kaisch.<b> </b><br />
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What we do know is that no official polls were done in Maine prior to the caucuses. A <a href="http://mainegop.com/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">straw poll done in September</a> following the CNN debate had Carly Fiorina at 36% and Trump in second place at 26.9%. Ted Cruz was in fifth place at 6.9% behind Rubio (10.7%) and Rand Paul (8%). As an indicator of engagement we can look at fund raising in the state. Jeb Bush raised the most money of all candidates in Maine ($134,000) and Cruz raised $49,000 after Carson ($69,000) and Fiorina ($69,000). Rubio raised about $30,000. Without any other hard information we have to rely on the experts familiar with the GOP political climate in Maine. These ratios are basically the same for New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Both major papers in Bangor and Portland, as well as the political staff of the Boston Globe had no reason to believe anyone but Trump would win. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Last Friday, Maine Governor Paul LePage endorsed Trump (LePage originally backed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie before he dropped out). But the governor has only informally mobilized his political apparatus to help Trump because there was so little time to organize.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Boston Globe March 4, 2016</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/03/04/depsite-trump-visit-maine-caucuses-expected-low-key-contests/3NrHlKFgaPsyb3VaDE3q2K/story.html" target="_blank">Despite Trump visit, Maine caucuses expected to be low-key</a></i></span> </div>
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Indeed, Maine Governor LePage, who has cut welfare rolls to less than half of what they were when he took office and who has gained an "A" rating by many fiscal conservatives including the CATO Institute, endorsed Donald Trump the week prior. Although the left-leaning state is less than enamored of his conservative policy success, he is a hero among GOP and conservative circles in Maine. The day of the caucus, <a href="https://pollways.bangordailynews.com/2016/03/05/national/pundits-win-maine-caucuses/" target="_blank">the pundits polled by the Bangor paper reiterated that Trump would win</a> and the LePage endorsement was important.<br />
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The same <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2016/02/11/opinion/contributors/doesnt-anyone-want-to-win-this-election/" target="_blank">Bangor paper a few weeks earlier</a> published a discussion between pundits which showed that Cruz wasn't considered in contention at all. In fact, he was only mentioned for his Princess Bride reference on the trail. With Trump's crushing of Kaisch by 20 points in New Hampshire a week earlier, no one had any objective reason to believe Trump would not be successful in Maine.<br />
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Ted Cruz <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzClinton" target="_blank">could barely compete for his base of evangelical voters against Donald Trump</a> in South Carolina and Alabama, much less all GOP voters in the blue states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. New Hampshire is the least religious state in the Union and Massachusetts is the fourth least. <b>Maine is the third least religious</b>.<br />
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There are not more non-religious conservatives there either. Maine is the 8th most liberal state, slightly less liberal than Massachusetts but more liberal than New Hampshire. In other words, in voter make up, there doesn't seem to be a natural constituency for Cruz especially when Rubio and Kaisch are in the race. Moreover, only Kaisch and Trump have had any consistent showing among this profile of voter to date in voting and in polling.<br />
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Ted Cruz placed third in New Hampshire, barely beating Jeb Bush by 0.7% with <b>11.7%</b> of the vote. In Massachusetts, Cruz came in 4th <b>(9.6%)</b> to Marco's 17.9%. Trump had 35.3% in the New Hampshire following his narrow Iowa loss to Cruz. Iowa is the most conservative GOP primary underscoring the breadth of competitiveness he holds in nearly every demographic. Donald had 49.3% in Massachusetts winning more votes than Romney did in the state where Mitt previously was Governor. This was only 3 days before the Maine caucus which is only four hours away by car.<br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JRvklep7ojM/VvHQr2g0YNI/AAAAAAAAcMg/LjVKLJJrMQcz3oXgZEZXNhWUf4yvHw9MQ/s1600/MA-NH-2016-GOP-Precinct-Results.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JRvklep7ojM/VvHQr2g0YNI/AAAAAAAAcMg/LjVKLJJrMQcz3oXgZEZXNhWUf4yvHw9MQ/s320/MA-NH-2016-GOP-Precinct-Results.png" width="320" /></a>So how on March 5th, following Trump's decisive 7 state win days before on Super Tuesday, did Cruz beat Donald <b>45.9%</b> to Trump's 32.6%? Moreover, how is it possible that following a decisive Minnesota win, that Rubio could only have attracted 8% of the vote when he had nearly doubled Cruz's vote totals in Massachusetts days before? Between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, (as seen in the graphic to the right courtesy CNN Exit Polling), <b>Cruz only won one single precinct or county</b>. This was the town of Millsville which had a total of 17 votes, among the smallest in New Hampshire. By contrast Kaisch won 12 precincts in New Hampshire with over 11,000 total votes and over 16 counties in Massachusetts. In Maine however, Kaisch supposedly only received 1/4th the votes Ted did - 12.2% of the vote - and <b>didn't win a single county</b>. Again, although different states, the demographic makeup and media markets are not that dissimilar.<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2Wi2mevGQg/VvHxm8uH8aI/AAAAAAAAcMw/CUQTucojjHMDIYJz1-Atieg-XmHcEtsYQ/s1600/NH%2BMA%2BME%2BGOP%2BResults.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2Wi2mevGQg/VvHxm8uH8aI/AAAAAAAAcMw/CUQTucojjHMDIYJz1-Atieg-XmHcEtsYQ/s1600/NH%2BMA%2BME%2BGOP%2BResults.png" /></a>Here is the shocker. According to the Maine GOP results (<a href="http://mainegop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FINALMEGOPNUMBERS.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>) <span style="color: red;"><b>Ted Cruz won EVERY county in Maine </b></span>- mostly in convincing fashion - except tiny Somerset County where he lost to Trump 33 to 38 individual votes. Kaisch never came in second place once, despite running first or second in nearly every other county in the Northeast.<br />
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Initial <a href="http://www.wmtw.com/politics/turnout-strong-for-maine-gop-presidential-caucuses/38357336" target="_blank">news reports claimed there were four times the number of voters over 2012</a>, but the number ended up being about <a href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/03/05/maine-republicans-pick-their-nominees-at-caucuses/" target="_blank">triple at 18,650</a>. Some who attended the caucuses wrote of serious concerns on the Portland Press Herald website about how accurate these totals were.</div>
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So there clearly was a large turnout. Ironically, the Democrats reported the same overwhelming turnout, but actually recorded a slightly smaller turnout than in 2008 as we will see below. Some where reporting actual voter totals.</div>
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Cfindlay reports above that there were 5500 in Cumberland. There is no source for that number although this writer is Assuming it came from an election official. The combined total of all 3 polling locations in Cumberland county - reported by the Maine GOP - was 3,762 still a staggering number compared to previous years.<br />
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The published Maine 2016 GOP vote total of 18, 627 votes is <b>290% higher than 2012</b> and <b>342% higher than 2008</b>. This is significantly higher than the highest turnout in the Northeast (Vermont at 57%) and surpasses that of the highest states of all, Cruz's home state of Texas which had a 109% turnout over 2008 and Virginia at 110%. In BOTH of these states, records amount of advertising was spent. There is <a href="http://www.p2016.org/ads1/paidads.html#super" target="_blank">no public record of TV ad spending</a> by any campaign or SuperPac in Maine. <b>Why would the turn out in Maine exceed the largest contested states by a factor of three?</b><br />
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It is hard to fathom that Cruz would generate a bigger turnout in the obscure state of Maine, than in his home state where he has 50,000 volunteer grassroots GOV workers and <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-dominates-gop-ad-spending-super-tuesday-states-n528046" target="_blank">where he spent over $1 million in advertising</a>. Even where Cruz has spent effort in neutral states, he still has largely not generated near the voter participation or interest that Donald Trump has.<br />
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And, there is simply no explanation for this. An even number vote total, equivalent to 62% of the vote of the entire county, over 2 and a half times the votes the leader in the national polls got.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/22/the-insurgency-has-only-just-begun-we-absorb-vilification-and-ridicule-as-fuel/" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/22/the-insurgency-has-only-just-begun-we-absorb-vilification-and-ridicule-as-fuel/" border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Q5SLhOB2-k/VvITtOW1viI/AAAAAAAAcOA/cFXBFogPWRc1GIIIGdXd5JCAFIN8fzplw/s400/Trump-Rallies.png" width="85" /></a></td></tr>
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While Trump was packing <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/22/the-insurgency-has-only-just-begun-we-absorb-vilification-and-ridicule-as-fuel/" target="_blank">stadiums in the tens of thousands</a>, Cruz often has empty seats in venues 3 to 7 times smaller. A good analysis of the Oklahoma and Kansas venues can be found <a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/cruz-theft-in-first-degree-updated.html" target="_blank">here</a>. In one example, in Oklahoma, Trump filled a 15,000 person stadium with lines outside, while Cruz generously attracted 3,000 with a much larger venue available only a few blocks away. An Ohio <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/10/donald-trump-inspiring-ohio-democrats-independents-to-vote-in-gop-race-for-or-against-him.html" target="_blank">GOP chairmen reported</a> that of the 46,000 new voters they are registering, over 90% are registering to vote for Donald Trump. According to the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-expanding-republican-party-white-voters-may-not-determine-2016-election-2336070" target="_blank">IBTimes</a>, through Super Tuesday, Trump had about 3.37 million total votes. Romney, at this point in 2008, had 3.28 million — even though seven more states had voted. Contrary to the protests of Cruz followers, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2016-03-18/whites-arent-the-only-voters-donald-trump-will-turn-out" target="_blank">analysts like Brownstein have concluded</a> from exit polling that Trump is not so much drawing new voters to the GOP, as reinvigorating those who have left the party. In fact, <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/trump-touts-gop-turnout/" target="_blank">Republican turnout is the highest it has been since 1980</a> there is no data attributing any of that to Ted Cruz.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cruz is not generating the audiences or voter participation at a fraction the rate Trump is.</b></span></blockquote>
This is why, like Maine, the victories in Kansas and Oklahoma are suspect. Were Cruz to have won a convincing majority of his own state, a sudden double digit lead elsewhere might be harder to argue. But, with the exception of Marco Rubio, Cruz <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruzs-texas-win-marks-lowest-home-state-support-in-104-years/article/2584717?custom_click=rss" target="_blank">performed worse than any other Presidential candidate in their home state in over 104 years</a>. How can he win a near majority in the northeastern state of Maine when he could not break 12% in neighboring states no more than a few hours away?<br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X8jQrvbJDgk/VvIVepGPoaI/AAAAAAAAcOM/bvxEk0qaRv8JL12sjUHyWuRVwTmzTHt7Q/s1600/Record%2BTurnout.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X8jQrvbJDgk/VvIVepGPoaI/AAAAAAAAcOM/bvxEk0qaRv8JL12sjUHyWuRVwTmzTHt7Q/s400/Record%2BTurnout.png" width="400" />B</a>Blogger <a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/proof-of-ted-cruz-vote-fraud-in-kansas.html" target="_blank">Lame Cherry points out</a>, that Cruz received more votes this year in Maine than the entire GOP field in 2012. Mitt Romney carried Maine easily in 2008 and 2012 when GOP voter enthusiasm was still peaking. Yet Cruz's 8,880 votes exceeds Romney's by over 30% from 2008. Trump, being from the Northeast is well known by those constituencies, while Cruz nationally is registering around 20% of undecideds. <br />
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Is it possible that the electoral voting systems are compromised? Every election cycle there are reports that a candidate is registered for a voter attempting to vote for their candidate. There were confirmed reports of it happening in Austin Texas during this year's GOP Primary and over 298 cases have been reported in Kansas. Other, more disturbing irregularities are also being discovered.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Hackers have found files with the exact final vote totals reported by the </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Minnesota GOP, stored on the GOP servers THE DAY BEFORE THE PRIMARY HAPPENED. </b></span></span></div>
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In the Minnesota, a hacker found the EXACT final results reported in the GOP primary on the GOP servers <a href="https://medium.com/@1e3d0077c3ca4df4b260e1ee0bceb6/voter-fraud-in-minnesota-634b488c7aa1#.vwp3kroaf" target="_blank">the day before the primary</a>. (h/t <a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-is-scared.html" target="_blank">Lame Cherry</a>) The national press won't cover the story.<br />
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How does this tie to Cruz? Robert Mercer is one of the 4 billionaires who account for the majority of Ted Cruz's war chest. Robert Mercer is a <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/07/robert-mercer-the-most-important-political-money-man-youve-never-heard-of.html" target="_blank">reclusive genius who writes software that tracks trends and automatically take advantage of these data systems</a>. Mercer has been working with Cruz on predictive modeling and voter "micro-targeting" to expand campaigning beyond the limits of any other group to date. It has been fully documented that these systems invade privacy and personal data including taking Facebook data from Cruz supporters without permission. One of the other billionaires is none other than Peter Thiel, eBay co-founder, original Facebook investor, and primary owner of the primary US Intelligence NSA engine - Palantir. These relationships are documented <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzCIA" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Vote rigging is real. Even in the GOP. This <a href="http://dennismichaellynch.com/programmer-testifies-he-was-asked-to-rig-voting-machine-software/" target="_blank">from Dennis Michael Lynch</a>:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1thcO_olHas/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1thcO_olHas?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><b>Clinton Curtis was an everyday computer programmer in Florida until he was asked by a powerful Republican legislator to create vote-rigging software for electronic voting machines.</b><br />
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Curtis was a software programmer from Oviedo, FL who claimed in a sworn 2004 affidavit and then sworn testimony before members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, that he was asked to create a vote-rigging software prototype for touch-screen voting systems back in 2000 by then Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), a very powerful Republican in the Sunshine State and a close friend of the Bush family.<br />
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At the time, Curtis worked for a company named Yang Enterprises, Inc., which had many contracts with NASA and the state of Florida. In 2000, when he says Feeney asked him to create the vote-rigging software, Feeney was both the Speaker of the FL House, as well as a registered lobbyist for Yang. </blockquote>
So this was the Bush family doings. Who now runs the Cruz campaign? Neil Bush is the head of fund raising. Jeb Bush just endorsed Cruz. Former Bush DHS head Larry Chertoff's partner RUNS the Cruz campaign. Still think Cruz is an "outsider?"<br />
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<a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/divide-america-and-conquer.html" target="_blank">Foreign interests control as much as 50% of the US voting system</a>. Many were concerned about Scytl electronic voting system - Soros affiliated - which the White House was adopting for military voting in 2010. This writer's understanding has expanded into the spiderweb and history that goes much deeper in large part to one other source. Here is an excerpt tracing these relationships: <br />
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<i><a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2012/10/scytl.html">Andreu Riera of Spain</a>
created a vote counter which was based upon his casino gambling
program.....meaning the program was to play the odds, so the house could
generate wins at a 15% margin, and therefore always win. Riera was murdered in Spain, and his program was stolen, and as I proved
not one Conservative in the world ever won an election after this
program was installed, and only leftists did. </i><br />
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The short version is that it is quite possible that this technology has been adapted or put to use in our elections. The approach doesn't require that every precinct in America is compromised, but only key precincts, in key states in key elections that can remain unnoticed. By "skimming" 15% of the actual votes across a number of precincts, the vote totals can remain intact but the concentration of votes can be flipped for the candidate of choice. As shown in the link to the Minnesota vote totals above, it not only is possible this is happening in Maine, Kansas and Oklahoma, but very probable. In the case where 15% was not enough to skim from the other candidates, the only other solution would be to artificially raise the total number of cast ballots. Inexplicably, the official responsible for printing ballots printed 80,000 ballots - over TEN TIMES the number needed in past elections. The highest turnout in a Maine GOP caucus prior to this year was 7% of registered voters. From the <a href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/03/05/cruz-tops-trump-in-kennebec-county-gop-poll/" target="_blank">Bangor Daily News</a>:<br />
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Kim Pettengill, chief caucus warden for the Maine Republican Party, said
she printed 80,000 ballots for Maine Republicans for Saturday. “I based
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No formal connection to the Cruz campaign or Cruz endorsement officials could be found, but Pettengill was involved in a <a href="http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2005/11/23/recount-affirms-jail-approval-new-results-seen-as-surprisingly-similar-to-those-reported-in-nov-8-election/" target="_blank">voting dispute in 2005</a>. The disputing party claimed the voting process was ambiguous and was attempting to address the crude accounting of votes by addressing it at a state level with new legislation, not any reported indictment or fault of Pettengill.<br />
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<b>NOTE: </b>It must be addressed that those tracing the information to the Lame Cherry blog will find it insightful, bizarre, insulting, offensive and more. The blog alludes to the possibly that in previous employment they were involve in our intelligence service. The writer at times seems insane but their information - like the GOP MN - is often invaluable. In an acknowledgement to the reliability and accuracy of what they write, Lame Cherry, following the Kansas and Oklahoma voting aberrations and prior to the Michigan and Mississippi primaries, indicated that they had sources informing them that Cruz's team was told to stop their vote stealing program. True to the prediction, both states reported final results very close to polling trends in the weeks previous.<br />
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The demand on Cruz's team to cease their vote stealing, if indeed it happened, may in part be due to the blatant differences in expectations and results from the voting programs - or the inability to fine them tune them. It would be difficult to maintain faith in the system if you have a candidate with very little support winning EVERY county in Northeast without someone asking deeper questions that could lead to actions and problems such as indictments. Although the DoJ in the current administration has shown no interest to prosecute these matters, prospective US Attorney Generals by the names of Joe Arpaio or Chris Christie, very well might do so.<br />
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<b>These results simply don't make sense</b>. <br />
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This is in response to a post on the supposed "cult" of the 7 Mountains message popular in many Christian circles. The full post below <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh284.htm" target="_blank">from this link</a> as well as the author's incredibly deficient response.</div>
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I read with interest your article on "Dominionism."<br />
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Although I am very much against a Ted Cruz presidency for objective reasons you can <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzChristian">read at my site</a>, I believe you have made some serious errors in your conclusions about the "7 Mountains" teachings. </div>
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First, a little about myself, I began a personal (albeit tumultuous) relationship with Jesus Christ when I was 19. I had been raised in the Methodist church. After my conversion in college, I attended a Baptist church until I was propositioned by two gay men in the choir. My real Christian growth came in a Louisville, Kentucky church that was part of the "shepherding" movement of Derek Prince, Don Basham, and Charles Simpson. This movement birthed Integrity (Hosanna) Music of which the promotion and distribution of Hillsong Music was it's most widely known success. Unfortunately, many in the movement (not those at the top) distorted the message of operating under authority of leaders - a very scripturally sound principle - into more of a cult. I personally know ppl who were amazing Christians, but in their sincere devotion to please God, ended up accepting the direction of their pastor rather than seeking God for decisions. A few books have been written about the movement objectively, but it shows a single idea can be perverted by man's will or misunderstanding. What I learned from this is that we all can be like the Apostle Peter (who had the distinct advantage over us by being directly educated by Jesus) who was misapplying scripture that the Apostle Paul had to rebuke.<br />
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I happen to personally know many of the leaders in the 7 Mountains movement. You grossly misrepresent the thoughts and views of MOST leaders (not all I admit) by inferring that there is some sinister plan for theocratic rule to take control of all aspects of society and manipulate the masses. NOTHING could be further from the truth. The "Seven Mountains" concept came from prayer insights of a few men including Dr. Bill Bright (who sold his very successful candy company and started Campus Crusade for Christ) and Loren Cunningham (who started acclaimed worldwide charity organization Youth With a Mission.)</div>
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I personally knew Dr. Bright and his lovely wife Vonnette who started the National Day of Prayer. They NEVER had any of these motives in their writings, speeches or personal views.</div>
The message of the Seven Mountains message is very simple. Some will cringe at my example but i would summarize it this way. <br />
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<i><b>"Someone, or many someones, are currently influencing Hollywood through leadership, ownership or talent. Instead of someone like radical gay activist David Geffen, why shouldn't that be someone who is sympathetic to Christian values?"</b></i></div>
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It's not rocket science. God instructed Adam to "take dominion" of the earth. Jesus repurchased the rights to earth back from satan and Jesus has a legal right to see followers of His run it. But as He showed at Calvary, He didn't call down a million angels to take it by force. He bought the right of Christians to take it over by grace - through faith - being led by the Spirit of God which IS love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness (great strength under control), and self-control.</div>
This is why the pastor who felt he had a right to kills gays (and who introduced Ted Cruz who did not rebuke him) is seriously off in the land of Beelzebub. Under this theory the "cowardly" and "unbelieving" would go first as well as robbers, liars and anyone "who looked at a woman with lust" since these are thrown into the hell of fire. Remember that Jesus said thinking about sinning and doing it was the same thing. But it's not the complete picture of what Jesus said, since He also said that, for those who trust in Him as their Lord, He would take the punishment of what we deserve in our place.<br />
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I personally know Mike Bickle. I disagree with with some of Mike's viewpoints. But I can tell you his heart is to ONLY follow Jesus Christ. He gets a lot wrong in my opinion and the controversy about God sending Hitler is extremely distorted. You can read the excerpt <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/rick-perry-jews_b_1018192.html">here</a>. God does say he will send fishermen and hunters to restore the nation of Israel. Scripture says that the age of grace that Jesus brought WILL come to an end when Jesus brings judgement to those who don't believe. That is not today and that is why I believe Bickle is wrong. But never does he advocate for Jews to be hunted or forced to conversion. He is one of the biggest supporters of Israel and his ministry prays (literally) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Israel.</div>
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In fact it was a Jewish couple who sold the property from Harry Truman (the President who made the modern day nation of Israel possible) at an obscenely low price - way under market value - in large part due to the amazingly positive impact Bickle's organization has had on Kansas City and especially young people.<br />
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If you are a Christian and believe the inerrancy of the Bible
you likely agree with Mike Bickle on 90% or more of what he does. But
even <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%209:38-41">Jesus, said</a>
that those who are operating with the same goal of Jesus "in Jesus
name" should be "left alone" by His disciples. Not attacked mercilessly
by those who claim to serve the same God. (This also is the problem I
have with religious Cruz supporters who make the same error with
Donald Trump's faith in my opinion.)<br />
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Two influential
Christian leaders who embrace the concept of the "Seven Mountains" are
very big Trump supporters. Lance Wallnau and Paula White. <a href="https://lancewallnau.com/2015/10/trump-tells-us-more/" target="_blank">Wallnau has said</a>
multiple times that he would not necessarily be for Trump if he hadn't
felt God had spoken to him about Trump's use in God's purpose as a
"wrecking ball." He suspects that means the White House but is very
clear that he does not know that for a fact, and wants WHOMEVER God
wants - even if it doesn't fit his own preferences.</div>
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What you will find with most of all of these pastors is something similar. They operate under what they believe is the leading of God and all of them make mistakes. The bible said that as many 'are led by the Spirit' are sons of God. Listening to God and making decisions based on what and how you believe He is leading you is encouraged by God. Paul also said that some prophecies will fail. This leads to a lot of confusion not only with secular people but Christians as well.</div>
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Indeed there are a minority of pastors who advocate for Christians "running" the spheres of influence in every area of society before Jesus returns. That does not necessarily (and should not) mean that there is any sordid process to gain those levels of influences. If they are Christian living by Christian principles they should be trusted to obtain those positions more righteously than Islam (which advocates lying to achieve it's ends) or atheists who can change their moral code to fit what they want or believe.</div>
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Just as there are medical doctor abortionists who took a Hippocratic oath to protect life, there are also Christian pastors who don't fully understand the "good news" or gospel of grace, the gospel of peace (shalom - completeness) or the gospel of the Kingdom. Many, like Paul wrote of the Galatians, are errantly attempting to put Believers back under bondage of rules, and laws. In fact a change of mind comes through blessing, not fear. I often forget that when I am trying to convince someone who doesn't hold my view.</div>
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But the attempt to demonize "Dominionism" is hypocritical to anyone who wants someone with THEIR views in a place of power and influence. And it simply is inaccurate if the aberrant views of a few are monolithicly applied to fellow Believers who have a sincere heart for God.</div>
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As appalled as you might be that other conservatives think you condone the past of Mike Tyson because he endorsed Donald Trump, so are those of us who are attempting to influence culture for good. <br />
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Mischaracterizations of this movement by fringe proponents is really is a distraction from the real values of each candidate that come from their own actions or words.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>You can often tell where someone is coming from by the tone of their reply - if not the actual words. Here am I, someone being very respectful who has signficiant knowledge about a subject. Unfortunately, the author showed know objective response on the merits but - like so many - suppresses any intelligently arguments under broad emotional bias. It is unfortunate that there is sometimes more reasoned communication in secular discussions like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K03gRy6qjKY" target="_blank">here</a> - than among Christians. </b></i></span></span><br />
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That's not factual as your whole article falsely accuses many of
these leaders of heresy. Forget that, unlike my response to you, you
exhibit no love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness or
self-control.<br /><br />Suggesting that Bill Bright or Loren Cunningham (or
Lance Wallnau) used R.J. Rushdoony as a source is complete conjuncture
and absolutely ignorant of the entire "movement." If you were even
journalisticly responsible, you would reach out to these people for
comment before publishing. You didn't. You copied lots of research from
legalistic sources who themselves exhibit questionable theological
theories. </div>
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<br />Worse, in addition to attacking other
Christians, you show no intellectual ability to defend your position or
spiritual maturity to rationally discuss your problems. Well, it is
only a wise man who accepts rebuke so perhaps that tells us something
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The worst is that you smear Dr. Bill and
Vonnette Bright who are now deceased and who were very good friends to
many of us. Ronald Reagan worked with Vonnette to being the National
Day of Prayer and I have quite a few friends who not only accepted
Christ through Dr. Bright's Campus Crusade for Christ, but dozens of
major Christian leaders attribute their ministry to him as well
including Josh McDowell (Evidence that Demands A Verdict). Over 25,000
staff work for Campus Crusade worldwide and there are over half a
million trained volunteers. Campus Crusade for Christ, International is
a canopy for more than seventy other ministries operating in an array
of contexts in the United States and abroad. One of Campus Crusade’s
most successful projects, <b>The Jesus Film has been viewed by more than 5.5 billion people in over 800 languages spanning across 235 countries</b> and provinces.<br /><br />The
sheer numbers associated with Bright’s ministry boggle the mind.
Bright’s tract, the 4 Spiritual Laws has been used in innumerable
presentations of the gospel in hundreds of languages. For good or for
bad when many people think about or are asked to explain the gospel they
will resort to the four points Bright wrote over fifty years ago.</div>
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I give you many specific instances in which you have attributed evil
motives to good Christians. ALL CHRISTIAN LEADERS are imperfect. Martin
Luther tended toward writings that could be deemed anti-Semitic. Billy
Graham and his daughter admit he wasn't a very good father. He also
suggested that there was more ways to heaven than Jesus at one time.<br /></div>
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you call yourself a Christian, there is nothing that gives you the
excuse to not operate according to Matthew 18 at the very least, or
embrace humility to even show a WILLINGNESS to make sure you are not in
error yourself.<br /></div>
As I said in my response, NONE of
these men, or us, are perfect. However, you are acting as if you are
the only one with special wisdom or knowledge. That in itself is the
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="" id="en-NKJV-25352"><sup class="">50 </sup>But Jesus said to him, <span class="">“Do not forbid <i>him,</i> for he who is not against us</span><sup class="" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-25352a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-25352a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9:50#fen-NKJV-25352a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup><span class=""> is on our side.”</span><sup class="" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-25352b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-25352b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9:50#fen-NKJV-25352b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup></span></span><br />
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<li id="fen-NKJV-25352a"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9:50#en-NKJV-25352" title="Go to Luke 9:50">Luke 9:50</a> <span class="">NU-Text reads <i>you.</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-NKJV-25352b"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9:50#en-NKJV-25352" title="Go to Luke 9:50">Luke 9:50</a> <span class="">NU-Text reads <i>your.</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><i>"Why stoning? There are many reasons. First, the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost." Thrift and ubiquity aside, "executions are community projects--not with spectators who watch a professional executioner do `his' duty, but rather with actual participants. That modern Christians never consider the possibility of the reintroduction of stoning for capital crimes, indicates how thoroughly humanistic concepts of punishment have influenced the thinking of Christians."</i> ~Gary North, Reconstruction leader</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><i>Dominionists provide the most enthusiastic constituency for stoning since the Taliban seized Kabul.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><i><b>He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.</b></i> ... John 8:7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">No matter how simplified I try to keep the definition of Dominionism, it is such a huge topic, that it’s difficult to make it concise, or even use the K.I.S.S. method. I constantly receive emails from people asking me to explain this aberrant doctrine in Christianity. Despite my previous efforts, many still do not understand. There are wonderful researchers who I’ll link to for your perusal, hoping this will help. It is really of the utmost importance because one of the candidates is steeped in this false doctrine, as are his close supporters, Glenn Beck, David Barton, and Ted’s father, Rafael Cruz, Sr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>What is Dominionism?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">There are three basic tenets to Dominionism </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>•</b> Dominionist wants a theocracy (government) of their form of Christians leading the country.<br />
<b>•</b> Dominionists wants a theonomy (Old Testament Law) in this theocracy, which means, their beliefs are based on Old Testament Mosaic laws, minus a few dietary restrictions, which will govern/rule the society.<br />
<b>•</b> Dominionists want to use Old Testament law, including “stoning” to rid the country of sinners such as homosexuals, adulterers, disobedient children, those who take the Lord’s name in vain, etc., although not all Dominionists subscribe to this tenet of the doctrine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Dominionists believe that we (mankind) have a mandate to build the “kingdom of God” on earth, restoring paradise, by progressively and supernaturally transforming ourselves and all societal institutions, through subduing and ruling the earth by whatever means possible, including using technology, science and psycho-social engineering; and then and only then will a “Christ” manifest his presence on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Al Dager in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vengeance-Is-Ours-Church-Dominion/dp/0962663204" target="_blank">VENGEANCE IS OURS: The Church In Dominion</a> (Sword 1990) lists two further definitions of Dominionism:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">A basic premise of dominion theology is that when Adam sinned, not only did man lose dominion over the earth, but God also lost control of the earth to Satan. Since that time, some say, God has been on the outside looking in, searching for a “covenant people” who will be His “extension” or “expression” in the earth to take dominion back from Satan. According to the dominionist interpretation, this is the meaning of the Great Commission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Some teach that this is to be accomplished through certain “overcomers” who, by yielding themselves to the authority of latter-day apostles and prophets, will take control of the kingdoms of this world. These kingdoms are defined as the various social institutions, such as the “kingdom” of education, the “kingdom” of science, the “kingdom” of the arts, and so on. Most especially there is the “kingdom” of politics and government. (Dager, p. 44)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Dominion theology is predicated upon three basic beliefs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">1) Satan usurped man’s dominion over the earth through the temptation of Adam and Eve;<br />
2) The Church is God’s instrument to take dominion back from Satan;<br />
3) Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth’s government and social institutions. (Dager, p. 87)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Dominionism Popularized</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The term “Dominionism” was first popularized in the 1990s by researchers, including Chip Berlet, scholar Sara Diamond, and Fred Clarkson, who needed a term to describe the political aspirations of Christian Rightists who believed that they have a biblical mandate to <b>control all earthly institutions –including government</b> – until the second coming of Jesus. But the idea of conservative Christians gaining political power sufficient to take dominion over society predated their use of the term by decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The two main schools of Dominionist thought include <a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/1994/03/19/christian-reconstructionism-part-1-theocratic-dominionism-gains-influence/#sthash.dTO0Q12M.dpbs" target="_blank">Christian Reconstructionism</a>, founded by the late R.J. Rushdoony, which advances the idea not only of the need for Christians (of the right sort) to dominate society, but institute and apply Old Testament “Biblical Law.” Again, a theocracy (ruled by Dominionist Christians only), will be on Old Testament law, (a theonomy) and this includes all 613 Mosaic laws, other than a few dietary laws. Those hardcore Dominionist leaders, like Gary North, believe in stoning sinners in the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The other, closely related form of Dominionism is advocated by the Pentecostal <a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/2013/03/22/spiritual-warriors-with-an-antigay-mission/#sthash.Aavfrlu2.dpbs" target="_blank">New Apostolic Reformation</a>, which exuberantly advocates for Christians to “reclaim the seven mountains of culture”: government, religion, media, family, business, education, and arts and entertainment. [<a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/02/14/dominionism-is-the-new-religious-freedom/#sthash.wfDaVFzI.dpbs" target="_blank">Link</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Yet, both forms cross over into each other’s territory. In the 1980s, the Reconstructionist leaders—despite their pretensions of theological integrity, worked compatibly alongside Charismatic leaders in the Coalition on Revival (COR) for political action, spelling out how they planned to rule over 17 “spheres” of society in America. These 17 spheres are a direct precursor to the 7 mountains taught by C. Peter Wagner and his group of “apostles” who claim they will reign as “kings.” (See <a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/2016/03/kings-and-priests.html" target="_blank">KINGS and PRIESTS</a>) Rafael Cruz’s sermons have spoken of the “seven mountains and kings and priests.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Seven Mountains Mandate</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Sarah Leslie, has just completed research on these doctrines in dominionism, and written an article on the Seven Mountains Mandate with Dr. Orrel Steinkamp. It is titled, <a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/2016/02/7-mountain-politics-and-theology.html" target="_blank">7 Mountain Politics and Theology</a>. It is an in-depth overview and is important in understanding the entire culture of this apostasy in the church today. The Herescope website states:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Herescope has published many articles about the 7 mountain theology. Our critical perspective is distinctly biblical, and thus distinguishable from the criticism of the seven mountains coming from the political Left, although we do share some of their concerns about this radical agenda for the church to transform society and/or government(s) into a church-state via cultural, political and/or “warfare” activism. In our articles, we clearly articulate our theological differences with this 7 mountains teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">I urge readers to delve into this article in order to understand the full ramifications of this heretical doctrine. Sarah Leslie is one of the finest researchers on aberrant doctrines in today’s church, and I cherish her friendship and her work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b><img align="right" border="1" src="http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/Images/Swanson.gif" height="299" width="365" />Dominionists Who Support Ted Cruz</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Pastor Kevin Swanson</b> - Colorado pastor Kevin Swanson was the keynote speaker at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. In his speech, the infamous “Kill the homosexuals” pastor called for the murder of homosexuals saying, “They are worthy of death.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Swanson then introduces Ted Cruz as the next president of the United States after his diatribe against homosexuals. In addition to Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal were also at this conference as speakers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Swanson actually said he would give some time for homosexuals to repent, but he didn’t say how long before the executions would begin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Cruz claims he doesn’t know what Swanson has said or not said, but he certainly didn’t take time to find out about this very controversial pastor. Neither did Huckabee nor Jindal. Swanson’s supporters also distributed “death to gays” pamphlets at the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Swanson bragged on his radio show about the “amazingly successfully” National Religious Liberties Conference <a href="http://www.lgbtqnation.com/tag/iowa/" target="_blank">held in Iowa</a> in early November, during which he declared he was “not kidding” when he said he’d spread excrement all over himself if his son ever married another man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">“I’d spread it all over my body,” he preached. “That’s what I would do and I’m not kidding! I’m not laughing!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Cruz’s Rally for Religious Liberty</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">After appearing at the Kevin Swanson <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2015/11/kevin-swanson/" target="_blank">Iowa rally last November</a>, candidate Cruz hosted his own anti-LGBT hate fest in South Carolina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Cruz’s “<a href="https://www.tedcruz.org/news/ted-cruz-to-host-south-carolina-rally-for-religious-liberty/" target="_blank">Rally for Religious Liberty</a>” was held at Greenville’s Bob Jones University, which <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-plans-religious-liberty-rally-college-claimed-bible-backing-racist-policies" target="_blank">once famously argued</a> that its racist policies were protected under the First Amendment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Among the speakers at Cruz’s event were <a href="https://youtu.be/-acB877SGVs" target="_blank">Dominionist</a> Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, would-be reality TV stars <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2015/08/benham-gay-marriage/" target="_blank">the Benham brothers</a>, also Dominionists, and anti-gay Houston activist and Dominionist, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/08/71102/" target="_blank">Dave Welch</a>. Perkins is also a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization member.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b><img align="left" border="1" src="http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/Images/Benham.gif" height="279" width="365" />Other Dominionists Endorse Cruz</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Benham" target="_blank">Phillip “Flip” Benham</a>, another Dominionist pastor, once arrested and prosecuted for stalking the judge who heard <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh246.htm" target="_blank">Kim Davis’s case</a>, is also endorsing Ted Cruz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">And, Senator Ted Cruz, isn’t backing away from <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-welcomes-endorsement-mike-bickle-who-believes-oprah-forerunner-antichrist" target="_blank">the endorsement of Mike Bickle</a>, a controversial evangelical pastor who once characterized Hitler as “a hunter” sent by God to go after Jews who don’t to convert to Christianity. [<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/rick-perry-jews_b_1018192.html" target="_blank">Link</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Despite calls from Jewish groups to denounce Bickle’s interpretation of scripture, a senior advisor to Cruz instead welcomed the pastor’s support in <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewish_insider/item/daily_kickoff_cruz_campaign_clarifies_controversial_endorsement_inside_stev" target="_blank">a statement published in the Jewish Journal</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Cruz trumpeted Bickle’s endorsement in <a href="https://www.tedcruz.org/news/cruz-for-president-announces-endorsement-of-mike-bickle/" target="_blank">a post on his website</a>. Sadly, Christians do not do any investigation into these endorsements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Bickle’s IHOP/New Apostolic Reform</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Here is a brief synopsis of the IHOP/NAR history from <a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Herescope.com</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>•</b> IHOP is just one arm of a multi-faceted group (with many names, entities and offshoots) known as the "<a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/ihop-nar.html" target="_blank">Kansas City Prophets</a>" that has been around since the mid-1980s.<br />
<b>•</b> These Kansas City "prophets" are leaders who track a direct lineage back to the old <a href="https://discernmentministriesinternational.wordpress.com/category/latter-rain-movement/" target="_blank">Latter Rain cult</a>.<br />
<b>•</b> John Wimber became an overseer of the KC group in the late 1980s when their cult excesses became public and controversial, and set them up under his Vineyard denomination.<br />
<b>•</b> John Wimber was a mentor to C. Peter Wagner and vice versa, and the two of them have a history that tracks back into the mid 1970s at <a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-evangelicalism-new-world-order.html" target="_blank">Fuller Theological Seminary where they concocted doctrines</a> together.<br />
<b>•</b> C. Peter Wagner's "Third Wave" movement, the predecessor to the NAR, was founded on Wimber's signs and wonders mysticism.<br />
<b>•</b> C. Peter Wagner's "New Apostolic Reformation" was founded on the convergence of the mystical streams of John Wimber, the Kansas City group, and Fuller Theological Seminary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Be sure to <a href="http://deceptionbytes.com/" target="_blank">click on this link</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">In January, 1990, Ernie Gruen, a Charismatic pastor in Kansas City for 27 years released a 233-page document listing erroneous prophecies, statements, doctrines and incidents involving the Kansas City Prophets. Gruen’s shocking report on the Kansas City Prophets, “<a href="http://www.deceptionbytes.com/AberrentPractices.pdf" target="_blank">Documentation of the Aberrant Practices and Teachings of the Kansas City Fellowship (Grace Ministries)</a>,” is filled with evidences of spiritual abuse and theological excesses of Bickel, et al. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">In several <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh263.htm" target="_blank">previous articles</a>, I’ve exposed the Dominionist teachings of Rafael Cruz Sr., David Barton, and now, even Glenn Beck who seems to have joined the Dominionist ranks. Ted Cruz masquerades as a Christian, yet his actions speak otherwise. Cruz has openly lied about other candidates, he’s used tactics via Jeff Roe, his campaign manager, that are deceitful and dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Cruz lied about Dr. Carson dropping out during the caucus in Iowa, and then <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/marco-rubio-ted-cruz-drop-out-email-hawaii-2016-3" target="_blank">lied again about Rubio</a> dropping out in the latest Hawaii vote. His actions speak louder than his words and his public prayers. The Lord tells us to judge them by their fruits, yet today’s Christians seems to swallow the hollow words and accept everything as gospel. The lack of discernment is telling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The doctrine of Dominionism is heretical according to God’s Word. Like Islam, they want a theocracy, based on their form of theonomy, with stoning still in practice. Surely we all know folks who have led lives that were unchristian, only to later come to realize the error of their ways. Repentance and salvation can come any time up to your very last breath, and it is faith alone that saves. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 We are all sinners, just saved by grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Take the story of Pastor Jack Morlan. He was radically saved out of a homosexual lifestyle by Jesus Christ. He and his wife, and their two sons boldly proclaim a Gospel of Salvation. Jack’s ministry was treated very badly during the 1990s by the Christian Right leaders, who told him frankly that they found much more enjoyment in bashing gays, and that they made much more money attacking gays in their fundraisers. They informed Jack that they didn’t WANT to share the Gospel with homosexuals. Pointing a finger and screaming “SINNER,” wins no one to Christ and salvation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">With Dominionist theology, there is no grace, and the opportunity to change would be cut short with their punishment. When Ted Cruz said as a teenager that <a href="https://youtu.be/H_LvbtBU7Qc" target="_blank">he wanted to rule the world</a>, people found it humorous and the silly statements of youth. But, his form of aberrant doctrine truly believes he should rule the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><b>WHERE IS THE REAL GOSPEL, TED? This isn’t the Gospel of Salvation!</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian right and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since 1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN, and she has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company in Ohio. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Kelleigh is presently the secretary for Rocky Top Freedom Campaign, a strong freedom advocate group.</span> </i><br />
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<span data-offset-key="c25u-0-0"><span data-text="true">I so very much appreciate the spirit of your <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AskDrBrown/videos/1366056100086655/" target="_blank">video blog</a>. (Thank you Lance Wallnau for sharing it.) Unlike most attacks on Trump (or promotions for Cruz) your love and concern gave me an ability to listen to your views and thoughts. I thank you for that very much. Please kindly hear a perspective from strong, committed Christians who hold a somewhat different views from yours based on a biblical, spirit led reasoning and observable fact. At the end of the day regardless of who wins the nomination or the Presidency, we are brothers in Christ for eternity and one of us can take a good part of that telling the other "I told you so." :-)</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="c25u-0-0"><span data-text="true">I hear you protesting the idea of a Trump Presidency for 3 reasons. First you believe that a good part of the Church is carnal by supporting him and not upholding decency and morality. Secondly, you seem to be under the impression Trump would provoke nations and appoint terrible Supreme Court Justices as a "loose canon." And finally you discuss the "general vulgarity" that bothers you with the Trump presidency. I also heard you say that you support Ted Cruz, in large part to your concern to counter the power of the Republican establishment.</span></span><br />
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I was very interested in the part where you said you understand we are not electing a pastor, but you are concerned about a sound moral base. I've addressed these in my post (<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/why-are-cruz-christians-allowing.html">http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/why-are-cruz-christians-allowing.html</a>) but I also want to comment further.<br />
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As mentioned in my response to Max Lucado (http://bit.ly/MaxDecency), many of your arguments seem to rest on three very faulty assumptions. The first is that, as Christian citizens of the United States, the morality of the candidate should outweigh his technical proficiency at performing the job of President of the United States. Our legal obligation as "we the people", is to not to hire a king, but a chief executive. According to scripture we are responsible to be good stewards. As someone who has hired and managed (as employees) former CEO's of Levi's, Exxon and Citibank, I can tell you that aside from extremes, there is (unfortunately) little correlation between leadership, management and decision making ability to one's "vulgarity." Of course, a womanizing drug addict would have great potential liability, but Trump demonstrates he does not drink and, although he has had 3 marriages, he has never been accused of being the serial adulterer like Bill Clinton. He has a very strong family who clearly love and adore him. Ivanka, Donald Jr and Eric all talk of how involved their father was in growing up and it is clear they are all successful, well grounded and deeply devoted to family. Close friends like Judge Pirro who have known him for decades and derided the lifestyle morality of the Clintons and others, have nothing but admiration for him. And <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-a-champion-of-women-his-female-employees-think-so/2015/11/23/7eafac80-88da-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html" target="_blank">female employees and executives going back over 30 years, say </a>he was extremely professional and even a mentor to many of them trying to achieve their career goals. Even his ex-wife Ivanka believes he would be "a great President." These are stories you won't read if you only subscribe to National Review or listen to Fox News.<br />
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In <b>taking our civic responsibility seriously</b>, we are charged to elect someone who has exhibited the ability to a) establish a vision for America, b) establish clear goals, c) hire amazing, strong executives and managers to oversee the government, d) create, manage and hold them to a budget, and d) to listen to the 'experts' in all areas from the military to treasury to make consistent decisions. As publicized, Donald Trump has built a $4.5 to $10 billion company that employs thousands. (That is actually 26% better than if he invested it in the S&P index back in 1975 and never took a dime out until now.) While some focus on his small side businesses which, although a minuscule part of his holdings, are likely to have failures as all entrepreneurs can tell you (do you not know how many <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-12-most-rotten-apple-products-ever-2014-11" target="_blank">failed products Steve Jobs launched</a>?) - little is mentioned about his success which are <a href="http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/" target="_blank">substantially grander</a> than what is being reported. He took the albatross that was Mar A Lago and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464605/If-want-know-Donald-Trump-run-White-House-look-operates-Mar-Lago.html" target="_blank">made it into a jewel of South Florida</a> - being the FIRST private country club that admitted blacks and Jews. <a href="http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=9049" target="_blank">Reporters who knew him for 20 years there speak glowingly of his ability to identify problems</a> (including when political enemies began directing air traffic over his resort) and successfully resolve them profitably. He's built entire cities and, yes, he has had failures. As any successful executive from Steve Jobs to Ronald Reagan have said in retrospect, it is the failures that allow you to learn and develop the character needed for even bigger challenges in the future. <br />
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You have chosen Mr. Cruz who has essentially been a lawyer his entire life, never overseeing a budget and never having to recruit, motivate and manage even a hundred people to an end organizational goal much less 2.8 million of them. Except for a 18 months with a private law firm, he has always lived from a government check. In fact, despite promising Texans he would work "every day" to stop the government corruption in Washington, <a href="http://www.billbennett.com/audio/robert-costa-explains-ted-cruzs-ground-game-data-analytics-advantage-helped-win-big-iowa/" target="_blank">he began recruiting politicians in Iowa and early primary states within three months of taking his Senate seat</a>. Although not as bad as Rubio's, Ted's Senate attendance is <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ted_cruz/412573" target="_blank">ten times worse than the average Senator</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-2016-armed-services-committee-attendance-116522" target="_blank">he has MISSED over 50% of his Armed Services Committee hearings</a>, the ONLY Senator to do so. To put that in perspective, he has a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-senate-vote-record-117201" target="_blank">worst attendance</a> than Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Al Franken combined. Unlike Trump, he doesn't directly run his own campaign, instead <a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/meet-ted-cruzs-ex-ciadodgoldman-sachs-campaign-manager-ex-cia-pr-guy-ex-ciacfr-policy-advisers-war-criminal-henry-kissinger-etc/" target="_blank">putting it into the hands of former Goldman Sachs and DHS partners of the enormously influential Chertoff Group lobbying company</a>. <br />
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If, as a Christian you believe the lack of vulgarity is more important than managing the responsibility God has given you, I suggest you look at former President Jimmy Carter. Carter was a Sunday School teacher who was widely acknowledge to not curse or lie (although his campaign told some whoppers) and unlike Cruz actually had 2 to 3 years of gubernatorial experience (and a peanut farm) before leaving his Governor job to become President. Many Christians, thirsting for ANY acknowledgement of Christian values, swept him into office based only upon his profession of being born again not realizing that he increased Georgia's taxes, budget, and bureaucracy to unprecedented levels. In fact, in 1976 after he left office, the state had to call a special session to address the horrific shortfalls and address the Medicaid abuses that took nearly four years to unravel. You know of course how terribly he ran foreign policy as well as economic and budgetary concerns as well. If you wouldn't hire a youth minister based primarily on his bible knowledge rather than his ability to run the department, how can you not make this central to your rationale to hire the Chief Executive and Commander of the military? <br />
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You have to wonder why so many staunch Christian government executives like Governor Mike Huckabee and Governor Sarah Palin would NOT endorse Ted Cruz. Palin may be <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121127131842/http://pa4palin.blogspot.com/p/gov-palins-record.html" target="_blank">one of the most accomplished governors in modern history</a> and by Cruz's own admission is the reason he won the Senate. (<i>I worked tirelessly for Cruz here in Texas to get him elected in part because of her endorsement</i>). And executive ability includes working with others with whom you disagree. The relationship
between Reagan and Tip O'Neil is legend. Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, while both very tough on liberal
policies, KNEW they would never have the numbers to enact conservative
LAW unless they could win moderates to their side. Together, both facilitated the
greatest conservative turn of government since Disraeli in India. Cruz
however seems to not only fail to win over others to his views in the Senate, he hasn't been able to attract "somewhat conservative" and moderate voters in his own party. His only attempt was 18 months into his term, he <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/09/for-ted-cruz-supporters/" target="_blank">betrayed Texans by joining Mitch McConnell at the NRSC and gave the establishment $240,000 to stop Senate challengers to the establishment</a>. Instead of influencing them, they influenced him. <br />
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Trump however has <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-04/former-democratic-sen-jim-webb-says-he-may-vote-for-trump-over-clinton" target="_blank">former Democrat Presidential candidates considering to vote for him</a>. Fairly moderate Governor Chris Christie and conservative Governor Jan Brewer disagree on a lot of policy issues, but both joined Trump. And it is NOT because of the misnomer that Trump is a liberal. As I outlined <b><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/comparing-conservative-dream-by-cruz.html" target="_blank">here</a></b> Trump is likely MORE conservative than Ted Cruz, even going back to Trump's non-political positions going back 20+ years. When you get the endorsement of Phyllis Schlafly, the godmother of the conservative movement, to endorse you, discerning people start rechecking their own conclusions. As a conservative might write off the endorsement of moderate Scott Brown (MA), but it's tougher to do with perhaps the most principled conservative Sheriff in America in Joe Arpaio. <br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426997/value-added-tax-vat-rand-paul-ted-cruz" target="_blank">Cruz wants a VAT tax</a> which has dramatically increased government and the power of the IRS in EVERY country where it has been adopted. <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/larry-kudlow-like-donald-trump-tax/2015/09/29/id/693948/" target="_blank">Lawrence Kudlow and others have praised Trump's Reagan-like economic plan</a>. While Trump readily admits he was 'pro-choice' long ago, he NEVER defended the practice going back to public interviews given even in the 1990's and always would express distaste over it. At the 2011 CPAC convention Trump explained his revelation of how he came to understand that it is wrong to demand women to stop the procedure. Pat Robertson, Robert Jeffress and Jerry Falwell, Jr who have known Trump for years are convinced that his conversion is real. I know that mother (and pro-life advocate) of Down Syndrome son Trig Sarah Palin would never endorse Donald without being convinced herself this was a genuine position. And, Trump is technically correct that Planned Parenthood DOES provide cancer screening and other services beyond abortion. I disagree with him in defending even those specific practices but he is not worried about changing his view to pander for votes. It's what he believes. I understand the skepticism of the short amount of time Trump's view against abortion, but few realize that Ronald Reagan INCREASED abortion as Governor only 7 years before running for President. He became the single biggest influence in the pro-life movement for the next 20 years.<br />
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<b>You mention that Christians are putting 'nationalism' second to biblical values.</b> I'd argue that putting false pious promotion above Christian civic responsibility is a far worse charge. Do you despise General Patton's successes because he cursed and was arrogant? If not, why would you do so to the man who be the Commander in Chief?<br />
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I don't see how anyone can believe that Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio are qualified to fulfill the responsibilities, pressures and burdens of President with their extreme lack of executive experience. Trump however not only builds and runs a massive empire successfully, he has mastered media, overcome financial crises and even testified before Congress on job creation. As I stated in my earlier article, if you are the property manager of a church and find the basement full of vermin and termites, you had better make your decision on who to hire on qualifications other than their lack of vulgarity or politeness. I'd look for someone that had a string of successes eradicating the infestation for many years rather than a half term Senator who barely does his current job and who AUTHORED the Senate bill on Obama Trade and voted to help the current President give nuclear and economic power to Iran. I would think after the disaster of the current President who also was elected as a half term Senator with no successful executive leadership, we would be at least a little cautious but looking at two others.<br />
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It is also fair to ask, when Cruz capitulates and AIDS the 'establishment' <a href="http://atr.rollcall.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-disavow-scfs-call-to-defund-nrsc/" target="_blank">by joining Mitch McConnell on the NRSC</a> against reformers (<a href="http://atr.rollcall.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-disavow-scfs-call-to-defund-nrsc/" target="_blank">like Mississippi</a>) within 18 months of taking office, what objective evidence is there that he would fight, much less win, budget and ideological battles with his own party? Call Donald what you will, but he has already faced off successfully against the Pope, disgraced and New World Order ex-president Vincente Fox, leaders from China and the most powerful political family in the US, the Bushes. The secret unbeknownst to most Cruz supporters is just <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/26/who-is-the-real-ted-cruz/" target="_blank">how deeply embedded into Washington Heidi and Ted are</a>. Meanwhile Ted Cruz now has added Jeb Bush's brother Neil, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/10/ted-cruz-a-bush-by-another-name/" target="_blank">responsible for $1.5 Billion in lost tax payer money</a> and who pushes and <a href="http://fl-parents-rise-against-common-core.org/w/common-core-push-conflict-interest-big-names-big-money/" target="_blank">profits from Common Core</a>, as one of the key players in his campaign. The Cruz organization is <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/21764-ted-cruz-s-closest-counsellors-are-neocon-cfr-vips" target="_blank">replete with the Bush holdovers</a> including the former head of DHS and the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428452/ted-cruz-foreign-policy-gop-leaders-suspicious" target="_blank">staff that miscalculated the Gulf War</a>. In fact, while Cruz was disparaging Bush policies in his campaign, he actually was <a href="https://infogr.am/ted_cruzs_neocon_problem" target="_blank">being advised by them</a>. And how about the disgraced <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428452/ted-cruz-foreign-policy-gop-leaders-suspicious" target="_blank">Clinton policy leaders he shares with Hillary Clinton</a>. His new national spokesman? <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/sad-ted-cruz-adds-tea-party-basher-neil-bush-to-team/" target="_blank">This was the person that attempted to shut down the TEA Party for the GOP</a>. Things are NOT as they appear if you are only listening to Cruz's finely crafted stories.<br />
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It might surprise you to know that God often uses the profane and vulgar to accomplish HIS plans. Martin Luther, the greatest reformer in church history, <a href="http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/talking-tough-martin-luthers-potty-mouth/" target="_blank">was so profane</a> the producers of the movie LUTHER struggled for months on how to accurately reflect his life, without getting an R rating for being historically accurate. One of my friends who was the script adviser on the movie. Upon further research, we learned that according to <a href="http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2009/12/obscene-speech-in-early-christianity.html" target="_blank">biblical scholars</a>, Jesus's "brood of vipers" was, in that culture, worse than "son of a b**ch." Vulgarity does not disqualify one from being an effective leader, even for the Almighty.<br />
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Jesus wasn't always "nice." Weaving a weapon (whip) and overturning
tables while calling others "wicked," "adulterous" and hypocritical escapes most Cruz proponents. And that is not nearly as bad (according to the standard you are demanding) as the
racial insensitivity Jesus showed to the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7. As pointed
out by numerous published papers, "throwing a morsel to the dogs" was a
terrible condescending racial slur between a Jew and a gentile. As a
Christian, I do not believe it was said with venom (nor does the
Greek grammatical structure indicate that), but most today would have
responded with outrage that a religious leader would be so callous and
harsh in the words used, much less to a woman! Just as many Christian men felt freed by John Eldridge's book, Wild at Heart, it's time for pastors to quit editing the real Jesus.<br />
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victim of a carefully constructed disinformation campaign. Rather than assuming Ben Carson is a "sell out" for endorsing Trump (as are Palin, Huckabee, Falwell, Jeffress, and famous Christian celebrities like Willie Robertson, Stephen Baldwin and Jon Voight), <b>is it possible that you have mistaken some of your conclusions by only listening to a media stream and counsel that has intentionally tried to mislead you? </b>Did you know "Christian" radio Salem network actually plotted with conservative leaders like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/28/bombshell-expose-conservative-radio-limbaugh-ingraham-hannity-and-levin-were-all-part-of-gang-of-eight-gaslighting/comment-page-1/" target="_blank">to push amnesty through Congress</a> in the Gang of Eight bill? Things are not as they seem if you accept every report you hear from even long admired Christian or conservative voices.<br />
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Many have fallen for the media propaganda that Trump is a bigot somehow. Perhaps you missed that civil rights icon and brother to Medgar - <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/04/why-is-mississippis-first-black-mayor-since-reconstruction-endorsing-trump-for-president/" target="_blank">Charles Evers enthusiastically endorsed Trump</a>. Famous football player Herschel Walker who has known Trump for years, is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/12/14/herschel-walker-says-donald-trump-will-save-america/" target="_blank">fiercely defending his long time friend</a>. Perhaps you missed that <a href="https://m.facebook.com/Peter.Ticktin/posts/10205751789135961?fref=nf" target="_blank">childhood friends not only talk of the integrity, honor and duty they learned as cadets</a> but that no one from their class had anything but respect for him. Native <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/wonderful-native-hawaiian-director-of-trump-campaign-breaks-down-in-tears-on-tv-after-trumps-big-win/" target="_blank">Hawaiian's break into tears</a> over the prospect of 'making America great again' and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/minorities-line-up-behind-donald-trump/" target="_blank">minorities are overwhelmingly supporting Trump</a>. The Democrats are in arms because Trump may finally break the "Black border" <a href="http://www.theamericanmirror.com/shock-poll-trump-receives-25-of-black-vote-in-general-election-matchup/" target="_blank">getting as much as 25% of the African American vote</a> in the general election. Do you really think Carl Ichan and former Presidential candidate Steve Forbes, who have worked with Trump for decades, would put their BUSINESS reputation on the line if he was as dangerous as suggested? These are all signs that something is wrong with "racist" and "divisive" view you are espousing. When Trump began his campaign talking about "the wall", the mainstream media immediately twisted it as though Trump was anti-immigrant, rather than anti-ILLEGAL immigrant. He didn't call all Mexicans "rapists" as the media reports. Go back and listen to the speech. Don't believe second hand accounts and do your own research as is our civic duty.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3jDHIRNRj6E/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3jDHIRNRj6E?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: right; float: right;" width="320"></iframe>Ted Cruz however has been spending a lot of time dividing the nation into those in New York against the rest of us. He has told audiences that non-believers aren't worthy of being elected to government while having surrogates like Glenn Beck declare other believers "not Christian" if they support Trump. Cruz refuses to disavow those statements. He lied to the Morningstar church gathering declaring that Donald Trump is for ObamaCare despite accepting an invitation to Mar A Lago to speak the week after his ACA filibuster. Trump not only introduced Ted, spoke glowingly about his fight against ObamaCare and his agreement that it was horrible, he donated $5,000 to Cruz's PAC putting his money where is mouth was. (He also told the audience Trump was against the Second Amendment although he and his sons are lifetime NRA members and his sons are extreme hunting and gun enthusiasts.) He has then continued his disparagement of "low information voters" suggesting that only uneducated people support Trump. Not only does Trump win more college and post-graduate voters than Ted, Sarah Palin, who has been pretty silent until now, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10154013835098588:0" target="_blank">set forth all of the areas of duplicity</a> Ted has held since taking office pretending that he holds 'conservative' values. And she didn't even get into the fact that like Barack Obama, Ted has sealed his college records, his immigration records and has passport records. <br />
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You might be unaware, but there is a very calculated disinformation campaign happening. <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/14/that-debate-moment-when-the-script-is-evidenced/" target="_blank">Notice how in this debate</a> - when the media was pushing Rubio - CBS used colorful graphics to underscore Rubio's points but did not do it for any other candidate. It was scripted. <a href="https://medium.com/@1e3d0077c3ca4df4b260e1ee0bceb6/voter-fraud-in-minnesota-634b488c7aa1#.vwp3kroaf" target="_blank">Here is just one piece of evidence</a> that even our voting outcomes are corrupt. Isn't it strange that conservatives are screaming "Trump is a liberal" while Democrats are screaming he's a secret member of the KKK? People like Ben Shapairo are declaring the world is over if Trump is elected, but neglecting to mention they were <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/04/13/the_magic_of_donald_trump/page/full" target="_blank">encouraging Trump to get in the race </a>instead of Romney in 2011! <br />
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Not since Goldwater and Reagan has the Republican party made such extreme effort to stop a candidate from being the nominee. So much of our news by both mainstream and conservative sources is uninformed if not staged. Some, like the National Review, don't even bother to make a pretense of balanced reporting or objectivity. <b>Why?</b> Because the establishment knows they can not control Trump and worse, he's already indicated he will begin to turn over stones and prosecute the guilty. As Phyllis Schlafly who was one of the original warriors against the Rockefeller Republicans says, the attacks on Trump began back in the days of Goldwater.<br />
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<b>A little problem lost on Cruz supporters</b>, is that you can't fix the government unless you have the control of it. <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-is-beating-hillary-and-trump.html" target="_blank">Cruz is not even winning evangelicals and conservatives in his own party</a> - much less attracting the broad base like Reagan had to gain the White House and pass legislation. Millions of the <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/03/10/report-46000-pa-democrats-become-republicans-due-to-trump/" target="_blank">old Reagan democrats are flooding into the Republican party</a>. While Trump sets attendance records for campaign events the <a href="http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/cruz-theft-in-first-degree.html" target="_blank">Cruz campaign is reduced to grossly exaggerating the size of theirs</a>. The <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/03/final-tripwire-triggered-mitt-romney-admits-gope-globalist-grand-scheme-the-splitter-strategy/" target="_blank">GOP changed the electoral rules in 2012</a> to reward a candidate who play best in moderate and "blue" states, and hamper the influence of red states. This was designed for Jeb Bush. They always suspected a TEA Party type would only be strong in the Southern states and didn't count on Trump. Most understand that Cruz simply can't win. And he is hated enough by the party because of his personal off-putting demeanor he will only help a true establishment person take control in a brokered convention.<br />
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Christians HAVE tried more "perfect" candidates in the past. The TEA Party movement that elected dozens of "conservatives" to Congress and state government, ended up corrupted almost instantly <a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/07/19/trent-lott-on-tea-party-candidates-as-soon-as-they-get-here-we-need-to-co-opt-them/" target="_blank">as GOP Establishment high priest Trent Lent prophesied</a>. Nikki Haley betrayed her principles. John Kaisch ended up embracing ObamaCare instead of joining the other governors fighting it. America - Christian and agnostic - aren't trusting lawyers and politicians to actually do the job anymore and is one reason why Cruz and Rubio aren't gaining traction. Those of us not supporting Cruz do not believe that he is capable of leading change when he hasn't done it with the chances he's been given. Faithful in small things, is the requisite. So may I ask, is it a Christian value to continue to electing compromised candidates that won't actually change anything?<br />
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Is it Christian to attack another professed Christian even though Jesus stated (Luke 9:50) <span class="text Luke-9-50" id="en-AMP-25352"><span class="woj">“Do not stop <i>him</i>; for he who is not against you is for you.” At least on personal moral grounds?</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-9-50" id="en-AMP-25352"><span class="woj"><u><b>Pastors promoting Ted Cruz as the "righteous" candidate is a polluting the gospel</b></u>.</span></span> <br />
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As I discussed in <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/is-ted-cruz-jesus-christs-anoitned.html" target="_blank">my earlier post</a>, the danger of Christians focusing on a prototypical Dallas Seminary persona as being ideal for presidential qualification <b>is cheapening the gospel of Jesus Christ</b>. <br />
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What you may have missed in Lance Wallnau's "wrecking ball" prophecy, is that the wrecking is not just to the GOP and the DC establishment, BUT TO THE CHURCH. A church that wants to "qualify" who is a Christian by the Blood of Christ with standards of performance and works is wrong. What is being communicated to the world by the Christian chorus demanding "civility" and a perfect personal moral history, is EXACTLY what the Pharisees demanded Jesus and his followers. Jesus proclaimed that righteousness could be achieved as a "gift" by merely trusting in God with your heart and saying so with your words. Paul went farther and called those who demanded works to be the measure of acceptability as "foolish" and "bondage." So,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christians distract from the real message of the gospel (simple trust in Jesus and confession), they place under false guilt Christians who have struggled or are struggling out from a "past" that isn't very upright.</b></span></blockquote>
It is my notion that this one reason why Cruz is failing so badly among Republicans. Most of us also have a divorce or a moral failure in our past. To hear that a successful, conservative family man like Trump being condemned because he is still walking out his faith, leads a lot of us to run to his side and shun the Pharisee.<br />
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God ordered that no one eat from the knowledge of the tree of good and evil, but most modern Christians try to force feed "what is good and bad" to both Christians and non-Christians! No wonder the world hates Christ. With His direct presence, crowds flocked to Jesus during his ministry. Why? It wasn't because he was telling them how sinful and bad they were. He was telling them the "good news" that their sin - past, present and future - was no longer being recorded in Heaven if they trusted in Jesus' goodness and righteousness. (It was the religiously uncompromising who demanded his murder - not the secular leader who "could find no fault in Him.") Why then are we telling the world to evaluate the "righteousness" of a candidate by what he does rather than what he believes and confesses? Here is where I find preachers like you truly confusing other Christians in the world. Our acceptance to God is by what we believe and say. Our acceptance to the world is by what we have already accomplished, not by what we promise or say.<br />
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As a confessing Christian who doesn't drink, Trump has raised a great family and despises the attack on our faith by Muslims. I'm shocked at the number of pastors and religious leaders condemning Donald Trump, rather than encouraging him. He works hard and demands others - including his own privileged children - to work hard. He advocates for Israel. It's small, but the time when Ben Carson didn't hear his name being called at the debate, <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/07/the-classiest-debate-moment-that-no-one-noticed-never-leave-a-good-man-down/" target="_blank">Donald Trump waited for Ben to go before taking the stage</a>. Character is often seen best in the small things.<br />
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Instead the rest of the population is (falsely) learning from Christian leaders that Christianity is about condemnation and judgment. And hypocrisy. It's not that Trump is good and Cruz is bad. It's the hypocrisy of holding up a flawed candidate as an ideal when he isn't. Ted Cruz is being held up as the "acceptable" Christian because he has '<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+3%3A5-7&version=NKJV" target="_blank">a form of godliness</a>.' Paul tells Timothy to "turn away" from those people!<br />
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For a moment take off your political glasses and put on your shepherd's robe. Be a pastor and an evangelist for a minute LISTENING to those you are supposed to love. David Brooks, an observing Jewish conservative writer, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reported on a case that</a> Ted Cruz tried as Solicitor General in Texas. For him, it seem to exemplify what Ted Cruz and his supporters were all about. <b>PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT</b> to look at how Cruz is appearing to others. You can dismiss it as an anecdotal if you like, but with such historic crowds and very key leaders like Carson, Palin, Jeff Sessions and others moving to Trump - try to understand WHY they are shunning Ted Cruz. Brooks discusses the case of <u>Michael Wayne Haley</u> who was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. The maximum sentence allowable was two years but a court error had sentenced him to 16 years. Ted Cruz had the ability and authority to let Haley go for "time served" but instead, Cruz used the case to build his career by arguing an obscure point of law before the Supreme Court. Ted Cruz made Haley stay in jail the full 16 years for stealing a calculator. Brooks writes:<br />
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The case reveals something interesting about Cruz’s character. Ted Cruz
is now running strongly among evangelical voters, especially in Iowa.
But in his career and public presentation Cruz is a stranger to most of
what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility,
mercy, compassion and grace. Cruz’s behavior in the Haley case is almost
the dictionary definition of pharisaism: an overzealous application of
the letter of the law in a way that violates the spirit of the law, as
well as fairness and mercy.</blockquote>
THIS is not the gospel of grace. Instead it feeds every stereotypical image about Christians. <br />
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Another view from a very famous NY Times columnist who is attracted by some conservative ideas and fights against the radicalization of feminists (for instance defending the right for men to men), changed her mind on Trump, but had very insightful reaction to Ted Cruz.<br />
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From my perspective as a fervent supporter of the ruggedly honest and
principled Bernie Sanders, Trump with his pragmatic real-life record is a
far more palatable national figure than Ted Cruz, whose unctuous,
vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test.
Trump is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out
fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly
womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing
puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of
melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House
is no place for him and us to find out.</blockquote>
I want to point out that the multitudes flocked to Jesus. He was NOT preaching about doing right and wrong, but grace (except to those still attempting to live by the law). He never asked the adulteress if she was going to repent before (or after) he saved her, but on her declaration of naming Him "Lord" He said that He did not condemn her. The thief on the cross was invited into paradise without praying the sinner's prayer. But he believed! And confessed with his mouth "Lord." How far the Christian church has come from educating the world on the REAL radical and dangerous simplicity of the gospel! It is GRACE by faith - not in being a perfect, sinless human.<br />
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Ted Cruz is the epitome of self-righteous Christian our society has come to despise. Trump may indeed be arrogant, but encourages Americans (legal Americans) to become united. He doesn't hide his Christianity but he also doesn't suggest that it is his primary prerequisite or purpose to lead ALL Americans, believer or not. To a culture that feels judged by the Christian church (as Anne Graham Lott's book suggests even quite a few believers as well), Trump is much more the epitome of Christ's grace than Cruz is.<br />
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One fifth of Americans have no opinion on Ted yet. But because of his lying about Ben Carson, <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/02/seriously-how-can-ted-cruz-supporters-defend-this/?platform=hootsuite" target="_blank">lying on his fundraising material that he doesn't take money from lobbyists</a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/republican-debate-fact-check/" target="_blank">lying that Trump gave donations to Hillary Clinton</a>, and his penchant to use Bill Clinton like evasion from his policy record, he is already branded by the secular media a liar. And this is BEFORE they focus on him as they did with Sarah Palin. Articles are just beginning exposing it (<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/01/ted_cruz_may_be_the_most_gifted_liar_ever_to_run_for_president.single.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/ted_cruz_is_still_lying_about_his_immigration_record.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seth-meyers-called-out-ted-cruz-for-his-campaigns-dirty-tricks-2016-2" target="_blank">ridiculing through humor</a>. He <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/" target="_blank">lied to David Brody at CBN about his tithing</a> and <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160131" target="_blank">raised money from gay donors in New York</a> while condemning homosexuality a short time earlier at Liberty University. He even told the gay activists that he "would be fine" if his daughters turned out to be gay. (It was this specific incident many feel that led Mike Huckabee to talk about his debate charge that Cruz said one thing to people in New York and something different in Texas. Normally congenial <a href="http://dcwhispers.com/mike-huckabee-calls-out-ted-cruz-for-sleazy-politics/" target="_blank">Huckabee went on to call Cruz</a> “Nasty…Stealing…Lowlife…Sleazy…” when he left the race and like Carson, endorsed Trump.<br />
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Cruz suddenly "discovers" he is Canadian only 18 months ago, but <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">CNN interviews Princeton schoolmates that recall bold declarations Cruz made saying he was a dual citizen at the Canadian border.</a> Those who exalt him as the "Christian" ideal do great harm to the rest of the Body, and the conservative movement in general.<br />
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And no - it is not a few incidents but an enormous body of deception as profiled <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzLies" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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You make a good point on the Supreme Court. But again, I fear you are buying the PR spin rather than the facts on Cruz's qualifications for this. It was Cruz who recruited and pushed for John Roberts as a Bush adviser. Cruz authored the Agenda 21 ObamaTrade bill, used procedural gimmickry to have the bill's passages without recording individual votes, and then, this past November, voted to ban Congress from disallowing China to enter the agreement. He voted to protect Monsanto from product liability and to unconstitutionally override the states 10th Amendment rights by banning them from deciding themselves whether they wanted to label GMO food products. Yes, he would likely appoint a pro-life judge. But with the power Cruz has already been given, he has weakened the sovereignty of the country tremendously. It may thrill a lot of Christians that he speaks in tongues, but like the Carter election, many are overlooking his real track record and overstating his actual experience.<br />
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As for Donald Trump, whether his sister (who vigorously testified in favor of ultra conservative justice Samuel Alito at the Senate hearings) would actually have been an appointment or he was just joking I do not know. But he has not pressed for her again and was the only candidate to actually name two Supreme Court justice nominees he would appoint in the debate before last. None of the others did.<br />
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So many of us can not in conscience promote Ted Cruz as the "righteous" or "godly" alternative since to us, lying and theft are not any less sinful than cheating on your wife (which <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166605/Police-tapes-reveal-Donald-Trump-regretted-dumping-Ivana-Marla-Maples-didnt-want-pregnant.html" target="_blank">according to reports</a> he deeply regretted.) Especially when his first wife Ivana has forgiven him and supports his candidacy. Some have suggested that Melania Trump would be a detriment but they obviously are unaware of Heidi Cruz's past.<br />
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Donald Trump is not the perfect example of a godly leader. However, murdering adulterer King David and his son Solomon with 700 wives and 300 concubines who did not "deprive himself of any pleasure" likely were not qualified under your standards as well. There are NO perfect people and when Christian leaders attempt to misuse the gospel to promote "a form of godliness" it easily shatters with the light of scrutiny.<br />
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At this point many of us believe that pressing for Cruz under the notion of "Christian" is detrimental to the church and the conservative cause, and that in actual conservative terms, Trump is vastly more equipped and anointed to do the job.<br />
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1,000 <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/1000-blue-collar-workers-switch-parties-to-vote-for-donald-trump-in-youngstown-ohio/" target="_blank">blue collar workers in a single Ohio county have switched their party registration </a>from Democrat to Republican in the past few weeks. ONE county. The Chairman Mark Munroe says,<br />
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“Every day I take phone calls or get voice messages from people saying they’ve been Democrats all their life and they’ve had it. They want to vote for Donald Trump. I’m surprised at the volume of inquiries we’re getting. It’s remarkable.”</blockquote>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M-nNMzKrXmQ/Vt2jP1YSQdI/AAAAAAAAcIk/CmpxxwLYdk0/s1600/charles-evers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M-nNMzKrXmQ/Vt2jP1YSQdI/AAAAAAAAcIk/CmpxxwLYdk0/s200/charles-evers.jpg" width="150" /></a>Since I mentally and emotionally embraced conservative values from Ronald Reagan, there have been some ideals that just never seem to come to pass. Yes, Reagan cut taxes and Newt Gingrich got welfare reform enacted. But as I read the comments of the Ohio County GOP Chair, I couldn't help but think of Jack Kemp's deep desire to broaden the conservative message to minorities and inner city. He and Newt Gingrich visited regularly with African American leaders even knowing they would disagree with them. They heavily recruited young minority political talent like JC Watts, but never really saw significant results on a broad scale. But, over the weekend, we learned that civil rights, hero, icon and activist Charles Evers - brother to Medgar Evers - endorsed Donald Trump. From the Daily Caller:<br />
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The last time he voted for a controversial GOP nominee? 1980. For Ronald Reagan.<br />
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Here are the goals I have always heard conservatives desire for the rest of America since the '80's:<br />
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<li>Quit dividing the country and start uniting it (Remember John Edwards 2 Americas?)</li>
<li>Bring African Americans into the GOP and break the Democrat hold (Mia Love?)</li>
<li>Reinvigorate the economy by cutting taxes and waste</li>
<li>Dismantle DC bureaucracies like the RNC, EPA, DOE, DOEd and reform the IRS</li>
<li>Appoint conservative judges less likely to go liberal after appointment</li>
<li>Revoke attacks on 2nd Amendment and strengthen them.</li>
<li>Stop illegal immigration</li>
<li>Bring justice to the criminals in the Clinton/Obama administration who never get prosecuted by the successors</li>
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It is absolutely fair to bring up a candidates changing positions. But the intellectual dishonesty by many Trump-haters - especially pious Cruz supporters - ignore that their own candidate has done the same on <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/the-lost-love-letter-ted-cruz-wishes-he-never-wrote" target="_blank">his glowing about Bush's big spending</a> and Ted Kennedy's No Child Left Behind, <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/29/ted-cruz-abandons-criminal-justice-refor" target="_blank">loosening criminal justice standards</a>, <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/22/about-ted-cruz-using-trans-pacific-trade-deal-example/" target="_blank">ObamaTrade</a> and even <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">his own status as a Canadian citizen</a>. Ironically, may Cruz supporters have taken Rush Limbaugh's comment that Ted was the closest thing to Reagan we've had, forgetting that only 5 years before running for President, he actually expanded and accelerated abortion in California and he granted immunity AFTER being President. So let's all agree to look objectively these eight "dreams" that are within reach after 8 horrific years of Obama.<br />
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<table class="demo"> <caption><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump <span style="color: red;">Cruz </span>Comparison</span> </span></b></span></caption> <thead>
<tr> <th><br /></th> <th>Trump</th> <th>Cruz</th> </tr>
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<tr> <td><b>Unity</b></td> <td>Bringing back Reagan Democrats<br />
union & blue collar workers</td> <td><span style="color: red;">Talks of "them vs us" on NY <br />
values, religious vs non-religious</span><br />
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<tr> <td><b>Minorities</b></td> <td>Wins more minorities <br />
than Cruz or Rubio, endorsed by<br />
National Black Republican Assoc<br />
</td> <td><span style="color: red;">In 3rd place in most latino <br />
states like Nevada among<br />
minorities, didn't even win in <br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/07/idaho-pastor-wounded-by-gunman-a-day-after-speaking-at-ted-cruz-rally/" target="_blank">95% Hispanic county in Texas</a></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Economy</b></td> <td>Runs a lean billion company, <br />
talked of tax cuts, trade since 90s</td> <td><span style="color: red;">Wanted VAT tax which expands<br />
government wherever used, no<br />
executive/financial experience</span><br />
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</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Dismantle DC </b></td> <td>Has had to oversee reduced<br />
spending in own billion $<br />
businesses, talked of leaner<br />
government since '90s.<br />
<br />
Does talk about some <br />
'replacement' for ObamaCare</td> <td><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">Good policy position <br />
but endorsed <br />
No Child Left Behind and <br />
bigger govt under Bush. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Also talks about some </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">'replacement' for ObamaCare</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><br />
</span></span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>SCOTUS</b></td> <td>Only candidate to actually name<br />
judges he would appoint in <br />
debate.</td> <td><span style="color: red;">Also wants "conservative" but</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">recruited, lobbied for </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">John Roberts when in Bush</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">administration.</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Second <br />Amendment</b></td> <td>Long time member of NRA,<br />
sons both avid hunters/lifetime<br />
NRA members</td> <td><span style="color: red;">Pro-2nd Amendment, some</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/11/dean-weingarten/does-ted-cruz-know-how-to-carry-a-shotgun/" target="_blank">question if he knows how to <br />
carry a shotgun</a></span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><b>Justice</b></td> <td>Has openly talked about jail<br />
for Hillary, Obama and <br />
disclosure of redacted 9/11 <br />
pages</td><td><span style="color: red;">Talks about jail for Hillary Clinton, <br />as former Solicitor General <br />enforced criminal codes, but <br />proposed looser criminal sentences</span></td> <td><br /></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Illegal <br />Immigration </b></td> <td>Endorsed by Jan Brewer, <br />
Jeff Sessions and Sheriff Joe<br />
Arpaio</td> <td><span style="color: red;">Strong Senate record against Gang of 8<br />and Obama Executive amnesty. Did <br />propose large H1B Visa extension,<br />against the wall, then for it, against <br />deportation, then for it.</span></td> </tr>
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My point is <i><b>not </b></i>to say that Cruz is not conservative. He is. But Ted's own record against Trumps in comparison to the rhertoric given by the Cruz camp (and Cruz himself) that Trump is somehow a liberal Democrat, just doesn't hold water. And unlike Ted, Trump is actually ALREADY effecting opinions and action unseen by Cruz.<br />
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Trump is:<br />
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<li>Already bringing back Reagan Democrats and enormous numbers of minorities</li>
<li>Getting Mexican leader Vincente Fox to admit there WILL be a wall. Fox also reacted disproportionately - screaming obscenely - to the Trumps strong language perhaps in part because, with George Bush and Condolezza Rice (Ted and Heidi's former bosses) <a href="http://www.texemarrs.com/112007/vicente_fox_admits_nau.htm" target="_blank">he advocates a North American Union with a single currency</a> that would combine US, Canada & Mexico.</li>
<li>Creating strong anti-illegal immigration protests in foreign countries</li>
<li>Creating fear among the Washington bureaucrats causing <a href="http://cdn.govexec.com/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.govexec.com%2Fmanagement%2F2016%2F01%2F25-feds-would-consider-leaving-their-jobs-if-trump-becomes-president%2F125549%2F" target="_blank">25% saying they would leave government</a> if Trump elected. (Ironically Trump edged Cruz in "pride" those federal workers would have either was elected but trounced Cruz 32% to 17% as their favorite candidate.)</li>
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It is time to bring a little balance back to the unhinged hysteria psyops conducted by <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzCIA" target="_blank">the NSA/CIA managers of the Cruz Campaign</a>. I guess if you smear a successful billionaire that he's a "con man" with towering heads of industry like Carl Ichan endorsing him, you may hope and pray the electorate doesn't realize that your candidate has never actually led or managed any successful enterprise other than a Senate campaign whose single most important facilitator (Sarah Palin) doesn't support your current candidacy. <br />
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It's fine if you don't like Trump's personality or don't feel you can't trust him to stay pro-life. It's time to quit kidding ourselves that Trump isn't a powerful force for good in the Republican party and is already accomplishing historic changes in a conservative way - that we have not seen since Reagan and Gingrich.<br />
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Discerning people would get their heads out of the campaign mud, and objectively see that there must be a reason that the GOP establishment, the World government leeches and the liberal mafia are so threatened by a Trump presidency, and start looking at the battle lines to see if they are really on the right side of history.<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-66123500601899849272016-03-05T02:34:00.002-08:002016-03-05T03:36:10.431-08:00Ted Cruz Is Beating Hillary and Trump Ain't<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="78dj1-0-0"><span data-text="true">A very good Facebook friend is a Cruz fan. Bless her heart, she is STILL convinced that Ted Cruz-mania is going to sweep the nation, put he and Heidi in the White House and the entire nation will suddenly start going to church. Or something. She posted the above graphic as "proof" that Ted Cruz can beat Hillary and Trump can't. Cruz's rolling poll has him beating Hillary by 1.5 points and Hillary beating Trump by 3.4 points. Forget for a moment that she didn't go into the methodology showing the oversampling of Democrats. Forget for a moment that </span></span><span data-offset-key="78dj1-0-0"><span data-text="true">both are generally within the margin of error of the polls. And ABSOLUTELY forget that Sanders is actually beating Cruz in the same match up by 10 points, and only beating Donald by 8. It is a great chance to finally put this ridiculous argument out of it's misery. I commented on her post the following and added links and charts here.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="78dj1-0-0"><span data-text="true">First, Ted Cruz's approval ratings are LOWER than Trumps (33% to 36%) and both are above 50% in negatives. But unlike Trump <b>1/5th of the nation have NO opinion of Cruz</b> because they have no idea who he is. Trump has less than 5% undecideds. As with Sarah Palin, Cruz does not have the cash or the media power to stop the branding of him as a nerdy, bible thumping liar to gain those undecideds. This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYSotS1nUKo" target="_blank">ALREADY the mainstream chant against him</a> - whether it is deserved or not. As you see from the chart here - Donald Trump is substantially unchanged in both approvals (dark) and disapprovals (red) for months. However, Cruz's negatives (red) are STILL trending up dramatically as undecideds decide. This makes sense. The general electorate while considering themselves Christian are NOT "religious." Trump has been in American homes via TV for 30 years, while Cruz is branding HIMSELF (with the help of mad man Glenn Beck) as someone "called by God" to bring righteousness back to America. This scares the crap (excuse my expression) to the average American. It sounds like a religious jihad. No sane person would think 20% of voters who have NO OPINION would suddenly think a Harvard lawyer who has the charm of an IRS investigator would be able to get favorable air time from a secular media that already despises his politics. Those negatives will continue to rise unless he changes his persona. </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-gop-primary" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-gop-primary" border="0" height="290" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhsL7006ICc/VtqXZOyTiXI/AAAAAAAAcGo/vgURlq7W06M/s400/2016-GOP-RealClearPolitics-Rolling-3-5-16.png" width="400" /></a><span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true">Secondly, Ted has already demonstrated that he can not win those who are the MOST ideologically similar to him having DROPPED in the past month in approval with GOP audiences. How does he win independent and Democrat voters? Trump continues to rise (43%) and Rubio (18.8%) has overtaken Cruz (16.8%). He isn't winning in deep south states like Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia which which all have 70%+ evangelical voters. Trump averaged 11% MORE born again voters than Cruz in just those three states. And that still isn't Ted's biggest problem. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lrfQhdhmIBQ/VtqqMj8THFI/AAAAAAAAcG4/Uzn578SmOkQ/s1600/Primary%2BEvangelical%2BConservative%2BBreakouts.xlsx%2B-%2BExcel.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lrfQhdhmIBQ/VtqqMj8THFI/AAAAAAAAcG4/Uzn578SmOkQ/s1600/Primary%2BEvangelical%2BConservative%2BBreakouts.xlsx%2B-%2BExcel.png" /></a><span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true">While Ted is consistently edging Trump by 1% in "Very Conservative" votes, Trump is winning "somewhat conservatives" and "moderates" (which represent the majority of the party) by 64%. This is important because while most states thus far are 40% Very Conservative, the Somewhat Conservatives make up 43% and the Moderates 17%. As you can see in the spreadsheet here,<b> Cruz is loosing over 14% of the voters to Trump in the areas of the party that account for 60% of the voters</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true">How does he compensate for this when Cruz already spent $35,000 per delegate as opposed to Trumps $4,000 per delegate on Super Tuesday? Even in Texas Ted had the LOWEST winning percentage in his home state in 108 years. (Romney won MA by 71% in 2012). This is supposed to be your STRONGEST showing. But Cruz is not appealing to any except those who are caught up in his evangelical fervor or Trump-phobia. He simply can't raise enough money to compete for those votes compared to Trump. And that is before we consider that <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/03/final-tripwire-triggered-mitt-romney-admits-gope-globalist-grand-scheme-the-splitter-strategy/" target="_blank">the GOP engineered the 2016 election for Jeb</a>, so moderate and blue states actually give a disproportionate amount of delegates to the winner of blue states instead of the vote splits we saw Super Tuesday. The GOP playbook literally says it will "slow down" a <i>movement</i> candidate. But only in the South. It was to be their TEA Party containment and now actually HELPS Donald Trump. THIS is why you see Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and even Harry Reid come out in force THIS WEEK, for once we get past March 15th, Trump will roll up most of the other delegates in the midwest and east that were to be Jeb territory. For Cruz to overtake Trump, he would suddenly have to start winning places like MA where Trump actually got MORE votes than Romney did in 2012 and where Cruz came in 4th with only 10% of the vote.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-harrington/a-perspective-of-the-s-carolina-primary-and-how-democrats-spoiled-it/1495893357094580" target="_blank">argument that it is the Democrats crossing over</a>, allowing Trump to win the GOP primaries since Cruz's wins came in pure GOP only (closed primary) states. In South Carolina they took the dramatic increase in GOP voters saying these were all Democrats who were trying to sabotage the conservatives by voting for "liberal" Donald. <a href="http://www.polmeth.wustl.edu/files/polmeth/alvar99b.pdf" target="_blank">Studies show that no more than 3% of voters cross over</a> in any election. But regardless, their math doesn't add up. My answer to that post was as follows:</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span class="_5yl5">How do you explain Trump
winning self-identified Republicans in the exit polling by eight (8) points over
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<span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span class="_5yl5"> Twenty Two percent (22%) identified themselves as NOT GOP (156,780) and Trump picked
up 33% of those to Cruz's 17%, a net difference of 25,084 votes. I
don't see how your math works here. As far as I can tell, you assume
ALL NEW VOTERS were democrats (not independents or new GOP voters.)
Thirty eight percent (38%) of all voters claimed to be "very conservative" (270,800) which Cruz
won by 6 pts over Trump. But that is ONLY a margin of 16,248 votes
which is significantly less than Trumps 18 point lead in "somewhat
conservative" voters (48,744) by 32,496. </span></span></span></blockquote>
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Democrats are SO angry at Trump (or so in love with Hilary or Bernie)
that they turn out MORE voters for Trump in this cycle than Hillary
received against Obama in 2008 (141,128). Unless I'm missing something,
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<span data-offset-key="e6e76-0-0"><span data-text="true">And WHY would it matter any way? As we demonstrated, you can not win a general election with only conservative voters. But many of the Cruzies have some weird delusion that they can win the GOP nomination keeping moderates out, but somehow then they are going to appeal to moderates in the general election. Now <i>THAT </i>is Common Core math.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9m3tl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Also, the only thing Hillary has going for her is name recognition. Most voters under the age of 35 have no idea who the Clintons really are - or were. The independents who decide close elections don't EVER make up their minds on policy - but on whether they relate to the person or - like you do in the shopping store - "feel" which cantaloupe feels better than the one next to it. They don't even tune IN until 3 weeks before the election. So the argument that Hillary is winning today means nothing in a general election. However, as we've seen from Trump, he is willing to bring up her theft of White House furniture, her email scandal, her theft of FBI files, and probably even the illegal removal of her Rose Law Firm records from Vince Fosters' office after he was murdered. Most voters will have forgotten or never heard of these scandals and it will have the shock of a new scandal for her. She will talk like a politician and come off as a lawyer/politician, while Trump will continue to be Trump - someone they EXPECT "you're fired" from. And if Trump can ever articulate that we've given BOTH parties too many decades of chances to finally "fix" Washington, it is quite likely that <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/could-donald-trump-beat-hillary-clinton-new-york-polling-shows-possibility-new-york-2327210" target="_blank">Trump could win New York as recent polls suggests</a>. Still think that Cruz is "winning" over Hillary in a head to head match over Trump?</span></span></div>
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The few who follow my rantings already know that although I worked tirelessly to help Ted Cruz get elected as Senator, I feel compelled to make sure he does not become the GOP nominee. Since any clear reading of the Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions dictate that neither Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio are eligible to become President, it left with me Carson, Kaisch and Trump. Now that Ben Carson has left the race, I feel free to lend my very weighty endorsement for Donald Trump. (Who needs Rick Scott now, right?) <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The basement is invested with rats, cockroaches and termites, and at
this point intelligent conservatives <br />could care less if our exterminator is <br />a gay alcoholic who
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I won't rehash the numerous arguments on eligibility (which can be read <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzLies" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzNBC" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzMinor" target="_blank">here</a>) except to say that as professors from Harvard, Case Western, Fordham, University of Chicago and multiple law reviews (including the Catholic Law Review) all agree with the Supreme Court decision of Minor that "it was never doubted" when the Constitution was adopted that natural born citizen - although not defined like the legal term "ex post facto" in Article I - meant <u>a child born on US soil to TWO parents who were US citizens</u>. The very conservative Governor LePage of Maine had two girls while he was living and working in Canada, and years ago did his own research coming to the conclusion that they could not be President some day because of that point alone. It is one of the reasons why he endorsed Donald Trump. The continued reference by the Cruz camp to the Act of 1790 is irrelevant since it was repealed and replaced in 1795 and the historical House Committee notes we have prove that it was never intended to (nor could it without Constitutional amendment) grant NBC status to foreign born children. If you, as Ted Cruz does, think it is "not important," then please have the decency to cease from calling your self a "constitutional conservative." But like LePage, I will not vote for any candidate that is ineligible whether they fit my political outlook or not.<br />
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Am I just settling for Trump over Kaisch as my two last options? Hardly.<br />
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<b>I believe Jesus himself would vote with Donald Trump even over Cruz and Rubio as well.</b><br />
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The religious jihad by many evangelical Christians against Trump is disturbing. In my post <span class="bitmark-title-container"><a class="article-title hl" href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/is-ted-cruz-jesus-christs-anoitned.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/is-ted-cruz-jesus-christs-anoitned.html">Is Ted Cruz Jesus Christ's Anointed Candidate?</a></span> I reference a Houston pastor who also sees an "anti-gospel" message among those who lionize a flawed man like Ted as "righteous" while tearing down another, albeit less compelling, Christian like Trump. As Ted Cruz proclaims himself as the real Christian, saying that his prayers during his campaign is to "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/politics/ted-cruz-evangelical-christian-iowa/" target="_blank">Let this campaign reflect Your love</a>," he allows <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFW4swAOBTo" target="_blank">Glenn Beck to smear Donald Trump</a> as "not a Christian" without ANY reprimand.<br />
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WWJD? Well, Jesus couldn't break the law. I'm sure he would be much kinder to both Mr. Cruz and Rubio than I would but you can't convince me he would just "take a pass" that it was ok to overlook <i>intentionally </i>ignoring the law. I also think he would, like He did the Pharisees, publicly rebuke Cruz and his followers for misleading people that righteousness can be obtained by work. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:5-15" target="_blank">Jesus also said</a>, "When you pray, don't do so in public so people see you." I think he would be appalled at the number of times Cruz's supposed devotion was paraded so publicly for personal political gain. I actually think he would give Marco a pass on this since Rubio doesn't really use his faith as a political weapon against his enemies.<br />
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Jesus also taught the parable of the talents where he rewarded workers according to what they <i>actually </i>accomplished. Like the worker who received the most talents (5) and doubled it, I think he would like Donald. The Bible says that "without faith it is impossible to please God" and Trump has faith in spades. Kaisch broke many promises to those who voted him into office with the TEA Party movement, but at worst I think our Lord would see him as the second worker who got 2 talents and doubled it. Rewarded for sure, but it was the one who started out with the most and made the most who got the lazy servant's talent in addition to his others.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hYSotS1nUKo/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hYSotS1nUKo?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><b>The bottom line is this</b>. Even if Ted Cruz's real actions and policies were the love child of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley Margaret Thatcher and Phyllis Schlafly, Cruz could never get elected. Everyone agrees that Ted's "base" is evangelical voters. However just as he got the lowest percentage of votes of any home state candidate in the past 108 years in Texas, he can't win a majority of evangelicals IN ANY STATE, much less the ones he has won. And all past models show fervent Evangelicals stay home if their "guy" isn't in the race, just like they abandoned Mitt Romney in 2012. Cruz has lower approval ratings nationally than Trump (33% to 36%), but nearly 20% of the voters have no opinion of him yet. <i>Less than 5% of Trump approvals are "undecided."</i> That means before 1/5th of the country will decide who he is from - what will be - the relentless attacks on his holier than thou bible thumping. They are already have with detailing his limited record (<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/01/ted_cruz_may_be_the_most_gifted_liar_ever_to_run_for_president.single.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/ted_cruz_is_still_lying_about_his_immigration_record.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seth-meyers-called-out-ted-cruz-for-his-campaigns-dirty-tricks-2016-2" target="_blank">ridiculing through humor</a>. The inescapable "brand" the secular media will continue to pin on him is that he is a liar. Put another way, before 20% of the country even knows who he is, he is LESS liked than a man who has been in the public eye for over 30+ years. Polls go up and down, but Cruz has spent over 20 times the amount of cash Trump has spent and still has less than half the state wins that Donald has despite they are all largely among his core base. He has NEVER won the moderates in his own primary - much less shown any appeal to those in a general election. And the GOP Establishment rewrote the electoral rules for Jeb(!) to reward the future blue states with more delegates to the winner than the red ones. He literally can't win his own primary flat out, when Trump is drawing record numbers of voters to the GOP party. The math will never work for Ted and many an analysis <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/09/for-ted-cruz-supporters/" target="_blank">have pointed this out for months</a>.<br />
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The other thing misunderstood by many of the "conservatives" like Redstate's Erick Erickson (whose wife is a professional GOP establishment campaign manager), is that most of us evangelical and/or true conservative voters realize that the time to try and find the perfect candidate is over. <b>The basement is invested with rats, cockroaches and termites, and at this point intelligent conservatives could care less if our exterminator is a gay alcoholic who beats his lover. </b>At this juncture a lawyer, who has done nothing but talk, alienate his fellow co-workers and can't even get his closest ideological Senator to endorse him has no chance in recruiting, managing and overseeing the gargantuan task of being the Chief Executive of the largest government in the world. Especially one that capitulated to the GOP establishment in stopping true conservatives running for Congress in 2014, giving (and helping) Obama authority to override US sovereignty with FastTrack/TPP and helping Obama position Iran to have nuclear capability and ECONOMIC capability to terrorize the world with threats of undercutting oil prices with their production. What is needed is someone who won't any longer allow the media or the RINO/DEM big government cabal to stop us from passing obscene budgets, terrible trade deals and keeping the borders open like FOX, the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and the <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzCIA" target="_blank">George Bush infrastructure that runs Ted's campaign</a> want to do.<br />
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All that work to get McCain to beat Obama (the help was more for/from Palin) didn't enable us to stop Barack at all. All that TEA Party organizing, protesting and campaigning to give the Congress back to the GOP, not only didn't stop ObamaCare (which was intentionally allowed to pass by the GOP without filibuster or other devices in the dead of night), the GOPe immediately broke their "Contract From America" pledges, rubber stamped Ominbus Obama and even kept FUNDING ObamaCare. In Texas we elected Ted Cruz who promised "to fight every day" against the establishment for Texans. What did we get? A man <a href="http://www.billbennett.com/audio/robert-costa-explains-ted-cruzs-ground-game-data-analytics-advantage-helped-win-big-iowa/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook" target="_blank">who started campaigning for President THREE MONTHS after taking office</a>, and who only shows up for work 60% of the time, (less than 50% of the time on Armed Services committee), AUTHORED the Senate version of ObamaTrade, voted to allow China access into the TPP without ANY oversight of congress and helped Obama give Iran nuclear capability and legitimacy. <br />
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So exactly WHEN in the past TEA Party awakening did our embrace of rock ribbed anti-abortion, less government politicians actually DO anything? Every time there is a REAL showdown with Obama - including the ability to shut down government - the GOP caves. What is needed is bull in a China-facilitating shop who will take a wrecking ball to both the GOP and DC.<br />
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The attacks by both left and right, GOP and DEM, and especially the unhinged vitriol from the Republican establishment tell me that they are truly scared of losing their control of their party. And since they have promised the world and delivered nothing but WHATEVER Obama wants - I could care less if they GOP continued in it's current state. NONE of the other likely candidates have ever run more than an office of lawyers and political advisers. WHY IN THE WORLD would we expect them to understand how to manage all of the different personalities and daily decisions among Cabinet members and armed services leaders, much less understand how to conceive of a idea, and bring all the resources together to make it work?<br />
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Trump is fearless. Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's former political adviser, who has known Trump for decades, <a href="http://www.dickmorris.com/what-kind-of-president-would-donald-trump-be-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/" target="_blank">says it better than anyone</a>. He writes of Trump, "He gets things done. At any price, despite any obstacle, no matter what
the legalities or proprieties, he makes it happen. He is, pardon the
pun, the bull in the China shop as he gores those who fleece America and
curbs those who would pack our electorate to make it more congenial to
their liberalism."<br />
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At this point, if the GOP is allowed to continue to run the show we will get more foreign wars and no real dent in the monstrosity of bureaucracy in Washington DC that prints new regulations like Iraqi dinar or Venezuelan pesos.<br />
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I don't know if Donald Trump will stay true to all he has promised in the past year. The evidence from those who have known them for decades lake Judge Jeanine Pirro, Carl Ichan, THE BIBLE/SURVIVOR Producer Mark Burnett, Vegas Tycoon Steve Wynn, Steve Forbes and many others say he is always good to his word and the amazing children he has raised are a testimony to his input and parenting as a father. He truly is a man of honor when it comes to his word.<br />
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Unlike Cruz purists who don't understand he has been a businessman in a liberal state - in the entertainment industry no less - I can excuse his chummy relationship with liberals. It's funny how they completely ignore Cruz's gay "lavender mafia" connections and even Cruz's public statement that "there would be nothing wrong" if his daughters were homosexual. (This is what irked Governor Mike Huckabee when he said Ted has one set of talking points in Texas, and another in New York.) Trump may speak off the cuff about things he doesn't know. But you get a genuine sense he really is in this to get America closer to her ideal state.<br />
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What is clear to me is that Donald Trump has ALWAYS stood for limited government and lower taxes since he took public stands on these things in 90's.<br />
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He has been adamant about loving America and viscerally angry at "free trade" deals that end up costing us more money and sovereignty than we could have possibly imagined when we signed them, again, since the 1990's.<br />
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He is unafraid to talk about justice for criminals, whether they be political or illegal immigrant or criminal. This is why the Benghazi heroes and Sheriff Joe Arpaio quickly jumped on Trump's train.<br />
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He loves the Second Amendment and both of his boys are fanatical gun enthusiasts because of his encouragement.<br />
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If Trump were ONLY to repeal ObamaCare, strengthen efforts against illegal immigration and trim/streamline 1/5th of Washington from a budgetary standpoint - he will have done more than any President in history. <br />
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<u><b>The Problems</b></u><br />
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As I've written about before I do have some concerns about Donald J. Primarily his enthusiasm for the Patriot Act, his embrace of Planned Parenthood and love for his sister's judicial prowess, and his (albeit recent) positioning to be neutral on Palestine and Israel.<br />
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I have the sense that Donald is not great at retaining facts and figures, and is more of the type of leader who doesn't really create his own solutions. Like the baseball manager who couldn't break .200 lifetime batting average, but has an uncanny way to get his players to all increase their skills to lead the league.<br />
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I suspect, although I don't know, that this is a guy with a big heart who really hasn't studied the history and essence of the conservative movement to come to any kind of intellectual underpinning for what he believes. It's clear he believes in America and the potential of people and is profoundly impacted by those relationships and stories. He knows that after walking through his own financial quagmire what he had to do to not be overextended again. He learned leverage his assets without giving up full control and now has a very lean company with a considerable lack of debt for a company that size. What he did from <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464605/If-want-know-Donald-Trump-run-White-House-look-operates-Mar-Lago.html" target="_blank">taking Mar A Lago as a financial disaster to a profitable jewel</a> is impressive.<br />
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The toughest of these three problems is abortion. I like that even when he said he was "pro-choice" in the '90's he didn't really defend the procedure at all. In fact he said he hated it. He has never argued very strongly for a woman's "right to chose" going back and forth between saying he was pro-choice with great reservations to "it's up to each person to decide." This isn't the position of a abortion activist. I can relate to this because I also originally thought I had no right to supersede what a woman did with her body until I realized just how human that life inside was. Trump had a very real conversion (which he shared at CPAC in 2011) that rang true to me. I know FOR A FACT that there is no way Sarah Palin or Jeff Sessions would have endorsed Trump if they felt he was pro-abortion. As a non-politician who has been more concerned with running a billion business than legislation, I sincerely could believe he had no idea of what his sister had done or hasn't done. He would know that she testified vigorously for Samuel Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court when she appeared at the confirmation hearings, but I can't imagine he would know what her legal opinion was on a ruling ESPECIALLY back when he was pro-choice. On this matter I'm trusting my instincts with Sarah Palin who, with a Downs' Syndrome child has been fiercely pro-life, she would not be endorsing him without qualification.<br />
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<b>Israel</b>. His stance that he would be neutral to try and negotiate a deal for both parties, appears to be someone willing to divide Jerusalem for "peace" that will never happen. On this, one of my Trump-hating, Jewish friends helped me allay my fears. It turns out that not only is Trump's daughter <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/186935/another-jewish-trump-wedding-for-the-books" target="_blank">Ivanka, is an observing Jewish convert</a>, <a href="http://www.biblediscovered.com/tag/melania-knauss-trump/" target="_blank">Melania is also</a>. In the speech of Sheldon Adelson's pro-Israel group last year, that was widely publicized for him saying "I can't be bought by you," he also praised Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and criticized the nuclear deal with Iran. He calls Netanyahu <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/trying-to-make-sense-of-that-neutral-totally-pro-israel-donald-trump/" target="_blank">a good friend</a>, but doesn't unilaterally say he would tear up the Iranian agreement but "police it." I'm guessing here but it is quite possible that Donald really has never learned, or appreciated the original biblical and Balfour Agreement boundaries, or the amazing miracle that is Israel. I KNOW he doesn't underestimate the hatred of Muslims toward Israel. What encourages me is that he seems to an enormous pro-Israel influence around him, and I will just have to pray that they - and G_d, will be guided to truly protect her. Trump did begin to develop projects in Israel in 2006. In a <a href="http://illuminea.com/donald-trump-israel-is-one-of-my-favorite-places-in-the-world/" target="_blank">speech</a> there he said Israel was one of his favorite places in the world and what he loved about her was that she "wouldn't quit." Again, at least he shows no sign of Palestinian activism. <br />
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<b>Privacy, NSA and the Patriot Act</b>. I hadn't payed very close attention to the campaign last year when I heard Trump praise the Patriot Act. In fact, because of that, I immediately assumed I would never endorse him. But, it is interesting how many people very close to Trump, like ex-CNN contributor Roger Stone and Alec Jones, are very opposed to getting into foreign wars and government snooping. And they are heavily supporting him as are the numerous websites, blogs and activists on the GOP side who stand against the "global elite." When Snowden endorsed him, it finally dawned on me that this is one area - like Planned Parenthood - where Trump may be positioning himself for the general election to not reveal the depth of his views. There is NO WAY Jones and Snowden would go out on a limb - or that Trump would appear on InfoWars - if he was secretly a big government, military complex control guy. There aren't enough votes in exposing yourself that way. Like abortion - I'm concerned but really have no other choice. Rubio and Kaisch are rubber stamps for the GOPe. <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzCIA" target="_blank">Cruz's ENTIRE CAMPAIGN is run by the CIA/NSA/DHS intelligent community architects </a>and his biggest donor owns the software the CIA and NSA use to steal data from Facebook. Hillary stole FBI files when she was only the WIFE of a President so there literally is no other alternative.<br />
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Trump gets (seemingly) no love for his teetotaling and I understand women who despise his adultery earlier in his life. The fact his ex-wife supports his candidacy, his children clearly love him and admire him, and work side by side with him, tells me it's none of my business and likely not a problem. If he STILL had a philandering way about him, I wouldn't be so easily swayed. But I see him more as the little boy who grew up and finally learned the importance of family. <u><b><br /></b></u><br />
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Melania posed nude in her modeling career. I call that an improvement over ANY appearance or press by the First Spouse if Hillary gets elected.<br />
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Vulgarity. Apparently some don't realize that Martin Luther was so profane, the Christian filmmakers could hardly figure a way to be true to the movie script of LUTHER without offending their core audience. Sunday School teacher Jimmy Carter was quite profane as was George W. Bush, whom most conservatives STILL love, used "sh*t" quite often, although rarely in public. Frankly, I am much more willing to for my children to admire a profane General Patton who accomplishes great feats on behalf of his country, than a cowardly self-proclaimed Christian that can't tell the truth about his tithing for fear of being "found out."<br />
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Like others I went from an eye roll to frustration to amazement at his campaign in viewing Donald Trump as a potential President of the United States.<br />
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I have now moved past any hesitation into the realm of excitement at the possibilities to finally dismantle the obstructionist GOP bureaucracy and the insane waste in Washington DC.<br />
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I am sure that there will be many cringeworthy moments ahead, but cleaning out a vermin infested basement isn't a pretty business. I'm firmly expecting that the the results are.<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-2510291423632780542016-03-02T13:55:00.002-08:002016-03-06T12:17:11.943-08:00Is Ted Cruz Jesus Christ's Anointed Candidate?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Three views on the "Christian" sales pitch going on for Ted Cruz from a Houston pastor, a Dallas evangelist and a conservative Jewish writer. </b>THIS is aimed at my very good Christian friends who are missing the damage of what they are doing to their fellow brothers and sisters, as the champion Ted Cruz.<br />
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A friend of mine sent me a devotional today from a Houston pastor which articulates succinctly (along with the words of Martin Luther) what is so terribly wrong with the Big Religion jihad against Donald Trump and the fanaticism for Rafael Cruz. This includes many personal friends who are religious leaders, as well as Dr. James Dobson, Max Lucado, and even new bible thumper Glenn Beck. I directly wrote <a href="http://bit.ly/MaxDecency" target="_blank">this Facebook post</a><a href="http://bit.ly/MaxDecency" target="_blank"> to Max Lucado</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/GlennBeckFB" target="_blank">this one to Glenn Beck</a> discussing this very issue. (<i>Beck responded after learning I supported Gingrich in '12 with the idiotic accusation that Newt, the man who actually passed more conservative legislation in history - including Reagan - was a progressive liberal. No similar response to Cruz when he used an FDR quote last night.</i>)<br />
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The notion pushed by these Christians is that Ted Cruz is a godly righteous man and Donald Trump is the devil. They even then attack OTHER Christian pastors, and Christian political leaders like Pat Robertson, Dr. <span class="st">Jeffress</span>, Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Sarah Palin with hideous insults - even questioning their relationship with Jesus.<br />
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This sickens me to no end. I have no problem with religious leaders expressing political thoughts. I think it's necessary. Forget the <a href="http://bit.ly/Cruzlies" target="_blank">hypocrisy of accepting that Cruz is "godly" in conduct</a> and that they are literally encouraging fellow Christians to <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzNBC" target="_blank">break the law and the Constitution</a> by voting for him. By making the alleged "righteousness" of Ted Cruz the reason to vote for him, instead of his policies; and by censoring the REAL MESSAGE of the gospel that mere trust in Jesus Christ is sufficient to cover everyone's sins and inequities, they perpetuate the same grievous sin as the Galatians in focusing 'works' that will never make ANYONE, including Ted Cruz, acceptable to God.<br />
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The POLITICAL reason to not vote for Cruz is easy. A) He would never get elected in a general election and B) if he were, he would never accomplish anything. But those arguments (here) can be discussed elsewhere.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LanceWallnau/" target="_blank">pastor below</a> joins many other evangelicals (a substantial majority in states who have already voted in the primary this far) who believe that although seriously flawed morally, he can fix the system that has left the country in the state that it is in. And this guy isn't just an average Sunday pastor. He's spoken at Harvard and many college campuses, and hangs out with many of the very well connected political operatives involved in national campaigns.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Pastor Lance Wallnau - Trump Is the Jawbone of an Ass.</span></b><br />
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There are a number of prophetic voices in the Christian circle who heard SPECIFICALLY that Ted Cruz is NOT God's choice. As with all prophecies, it is up to us EACH individually to discern and judge the word by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.<br />
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I personally know a couple of the Cruz endorsing pastors and was shocked with their response when I asked them to read <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=1" target="_blank">this NY Times piece by David Brooks</a>. Brooks is an interesting guy in that he was a liberal, studied under William F. Buckley and is slammed by both conservative and liberals for his views. Most responded with a knee jerk denunciation since he writes for the NY Times immediately calling it a liberal hit piece. They might be surprised to know that Brooks advocates morality, actually defended the Gulf War and is staunch defender of Israel. Hardly a typical NY Times liberal. But THIS excerpt <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=1" target="_blank">from his article</a> is very telling:<br />
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Eventually, the mistake came to light and Haley tried to fix it. Ted Cruz was solicitor general of Texas at the time. Instead of just letting Haley go for time served, Cruz took the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/11/lazarus.dretke/">case to the Supreme Court</a> to keep Haley in prison for the full 16 years.</div>
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So at the end of the day, when Ted Cruz fails to win the nomination, not only will these Christian leaders have divided Christians and encouraged their followers to be 'accusers of the brethren," they also have demonstrated the very OPPOSITE of the nature of Christ both in their message of what righteousness REALLY is, and how they can attain it.<br />
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<b>Ex-Staffer for Ted Cruz campaign (verified) claims Amanda Carpenter behind the Ben Carson vote theft in Iowa and that Heidi Cruz told staffers she knows of affairs and is "ok with it." Details under Campaign section below or <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/ex-cruz-staffer-amandacarpenter-hatched.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </b><br />
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<b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxDkN1OB8NpQKGQceRXDMvurzhzMdM5_BsgKwz1HUOX0NXnVjZTCqQou6ZsrrvnMsS5NT_VStJX0YGgUtReHQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>When I helped Ted get elected to Senate, I was convinced he was a principled, Christian conservative unlike any we had seen for ages. Upon deep research initially to defend him, I found hard evidence that he should not be in office. I am not the only one. At <a href="http://detonite.com/a-die-hard-ted-cruz-fan/" target="_blank">this link</a> you can read the awakening of another Cruz supporter. Still another member of <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-cruz-team-member-speaks-out-against-his-candidates-repeated-lies/article/2583790#.VvcUTanfdsk.twitter" target="_blank">Cruz's OWN LEAERSHIP TEAM</a> finally had enough to write <a href="https://csteventucker.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/no-senator-cruz-donald-trump-does-not-want-single-payer-health-care/" target="_blank">this blog post</a>. And these are outright brazen lies that he knows are not the other candidate's position. Many examples below but in the instance on the video here, Cruz is talking to other Evangelical Christians, saying that Donal Trump wants to continue ObamaCare, despite Trump inviting Cruz to Mar A Lago the week after the ObamaCare debate to congratulate, praise and agree with him. This kind of lying borders on that of a sociopath. (h/t Moretti Underground for video) <br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html/Citizenship">Citizenship</a><br />
<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html/Ties">Ties and Affiliations</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html/Policy">Policy</a><br />
<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html/Lies">Campaign Lies, Deceptions and Privacy Invasion</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Citizenship</u></b></span><br />
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Current Hawaiian US Senator Mazie Hirono was born to a US citizen mother and a foreign father in a foreign land. Her mother brought her to the US when she was seven years old. <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/24/if-sen-mazie-hirono-is-a-naturalized-citizen-how-is-ted-cruz-natural-born/" target="_blank">She defines herself as an immigrant is a "naturalized citizen" according to her biography</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">SCOTUS, Congress and Founder Evidence of "Natural Born Citizen" definitions</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U3CfFf279g&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Ted Cruz Doesn't Answer 17 yr old voter why he didn't know he was a Canadian until 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/02/logical-founders-fathers-intent-real.html" target="_blank">Why "Natural Born Citizen" was so important to Founders and is still today</a><br />
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Ted Cruz's website boldly lies "NO CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR BELIEVES CRUZ TO BE INELIGIBLE FOR PRESIDENT.<br />
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Another lie. Scholar papers and Notable Officials that Cruz Rubio are not Natural Born Citizens<br />
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<li>Catholic Law University Review <b><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2444766" target="_blank">PDF</a></b> (Also explains why other scholars get it wrong)<br />
(Layman Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html" target="_blank">article</a> by same Delaware Law School professor/historian)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2016/02/trump_is_right_ted_cruz_is_not_eligible_to_be_president.html" target="_blank">University of Chicago Professor Posner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/297154489/Amending-the-Natural-Born-Citizen-Requirement-Globalization-as-t" target="_blank">Chicago Kent Law Review</a> (from a Leftist, Globalist, New World Order perspective)</li>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/08/former-michigan-governor-raises-questions-about-cruzs-eligibility-video" target="_blank">Governor of Michigan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://citizenwells.com/2016/01/17/ted-cruz-harvard-law-professor-cruz-not-eligible-born-in-canada-not-natural-born-citizen-laurence-h-tribe-also-obama-professor-i-cannot-support-ted-cruz-and-disregard-for-us-constitution-many-ex/" target="_blank">Michigan Law Review</a></li>
<li>Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration and Policy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007052924/http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/FirstImpressions/107-FI/chin.pdf" target="_blank">University of Arizona</a> </li>
<li>Maine Governor Paul LePage (<a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/bombshell-governor-paul-lepage-endorsed.html" target="_blank">Daughters born in Canada and researched issue years ago</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huckabee-santorum-join-gop-voices-in-questioning-cruzs-citizenship/" target="_blank">Governor Huckabee and Senator Santorum</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/11/through-ted-cruz-constitutional-looking-glass/zvKE6qpF31q2RsvPO9nGoK/story.html" target="_blank">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lee-is-ted-cruz-eligible-to-be-president-20160110-story.html" target="_blank">Fordham Law Professor</a></li>
<li>Former <a href="http://www.newsday.com/opinion/ted-cruz-ineligible-to-be-president-according-to-history-1.11466068" target="_blank">Chief Judge of the State of New York</a> and an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Touro Law School </li>
<li><a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-winston-churchill-was-not-even.html" target="_blank">Winston Churchill</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33676461/Founder-and-Historian-David-Ramsay-Defined-Natural-Born-Citizenship-in-1789-by-Atty-Mario-Apuzzo" target="_blank">Founder/Historian David Ramsey 1789</a></li>
<li><a href="https://libertyborn.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/new-evidence-1790-naturalization-act/" target="_blank">1795 Congressional Notes</a> (explaining repeal of 1790 "natural born" Act) <b><a href="http://natural-borncitizens.com/nbcfiles/nbc_McElwee.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a></b></li>
<li><a href="https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/20/trump-is-right-about-cruzs-presidential" target="_blank">Libertarian REASON magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/2016/01/claims-that-sen-cruz-is-not-natural-born-need-to-be-taken-seriouslyrob-natelson.html" target="_blank">Independence Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/12/debating-whether-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen/" target="_blank">Case Western Law Professor</a> (changed mind to now doubt earlier position Cruz eligible) </li>
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<b> </b>Harvard Law Professor, Former Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to Obama's campaign,<b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank">Einer Elhauge</a>, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/obama-advisor-harvard-law-professors-ny.html" target="_blank"><b>filed an amicus brief</b> </a>at the New York Supreme Court advising the court that <a href="http://po.st/BXspGl" target="_blank">Canadian-born Ted Cruz</a> is not eligible to be president under the <a href="http://wp.me/pPOcT-4w9" target="_blank"><i>Article II <u>natural born Citizen</u></i> requirement</a>. Elhauge also says it's not a political question.<br />
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<a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-illinois-board-of-elections-got-it.html" target="_blank">Exhaustive Legal Argument explaining error on Illinois Board of Elections decision</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/alert-cruz-eligibility-attorney-lobbied.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz is using Hillary' Clinton's lobbyist, and OPEN BORDERS ATTORNEY</a> to fight his eligibility cases. <br />
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SCOTUS finding from 1971 (Rogers v Bellei) with EXACT circumstances as Cruz found that <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/02/11/this-is-scary-president-cruz-would-not-constitutionally-be-subject-to-the-jurisdiction-of-the-united-states-of-america/#comment-74315" target="_blank"><b>he would not even be a citizen</b></a>.<br />
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The Supreme Court Ruling in <a href="http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17/177/1555913/" target="_blank">Wong vs Ark</a> says this:<br />
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"<u>Citizenship by naturalization can only be acquired </u><strong><span>*180</span></strong>
by naturalization under the authority and in the forms of law. <u>But
citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the
circumstances defined in the constitution</u>. Every person born <b>in </b>the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a
citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. <u><b>A person
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citizen by being naturalized</b></u>, </blockquote>
Being "naturalized" is different from being a native citizen.<br />
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And the ultimate hypocrisy for someone who is a beneficiary of "birth right" citizenship. In 2011 he claims he is for it and it won't help to change it. Now he claims he was ALWAYS for it....INCLUDING in 2011!!<br />
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There is the reality that Republicans could go through the entire primary process, only to have their nominee thrown out, if not substantially delayed (unable to start a campaign for the general election in time). <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alan-grayson-ted-cruz-birther" target="_blank">Rep. Alan Grayson (FL) will also file lawsuit if @TedCruz nominated by GOP</a>.<br />
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<b>ANOTHER! TED CRUZ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZlnhvi8XU" target="_blank">SAYS</a> HE IS NOT A CITIZEN (BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP) </b></div>
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<b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>: Princeton Debate Member says Cruz claimed he was a dual citizen.</b><br />
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At right is a clip from a New Hampshire Cruz rally where a 17 year old, first time voter asked how it was possible that Cruz did not know this all along, especially since he was a constitutional expert. Cruz refused to answer the question, instead claiming that contrary to multiple Supreme Court cases and writings of the founders, "it has always been that way."<br />
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Even when <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">CNN asks Ted to cite the specific legal argument</a> - Cruz simply says "the Constitution is very clear" - something even legal scholars supporting Cruz's position overwhelmingly deny.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">However, Michael Lubetsky, a Canadian who was on the Princeton debate team with Cruz, has come forward <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">saying that not only did Cruz know, he talked about it often</a>.</span></b><br />
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This is in STARK contrast to a statement he put out in 2014.<br />
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<i>Given the raft of stories today about my birth certificate, it must be a slow news day. The facts of my birth are straightforward: I was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada. Because my mother was a U.S. citizen, born in Delaware, I was a U.S. citizen by birth. When I was a kid, my Mom told me that I could choose to claim Canadian citizenship if I wanted. I got my U.S. passport in high school.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, <span style="color: red;"><u><b>I assumed that was the end of the matter. </b></u></span>Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship. Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. Senator, I believe I should be only an American.</i></blockquote>
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Ted Cruz has <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2015/04/revealed-request-for-senator-ted-cruzs.html" target="_blank">sealed his immigration documentation</a>. If it is so "straightforward" as Cruz says, <i>Why?</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html" name="Citizenship"></a> <br />
<a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/02/11/this-is-scary-president-cruz-would-not-constitutionally-be-subject-to-the-jurisdiction-of-the-united-states-of-america/" target="_blank">Did Ted Cruz enter the United States Illegally?</a> (we don't know since he won't show his CRBA).<br />
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TED'S DOCUMENTS and MISSING documents: <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams317.htm" target="_blank">Is he illegally serving in the Senate?</a><br />
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<a href="http://codeforeblog.com/?p=2885" target="_blank">Ted Cruz's mother's birth certificate</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/rnc-committeewoman-claims-rubio-and-cruz-both-ineligible-for-presidency/" target="_blank">RNC Committeewoman also believes Ted Cruz is not eligible</a>.<br />
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<b>State chairwoman of the Illinois National Republican Assembly<a href="http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2015/03/02/cruz-controlled-on-teds-cpac-setback/" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2015/03/02/cruz-controlled-on-teds-cpac-setback/" target="_blank">claims Cruz implied that he knew he was NOT a natural born citizen </a>when he was running for Senate.<b> </b><br />
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<i>“I said to him — on my bucket list, one day I hope to work for the first Latino president of the United States in Washington, D.C. — so I looked right at him and I said, ‘I believe someday you might be that guy.’ He looked back at me and he chuckled, ‘I wasn’t born in America … I was born in Canada.’ We laughed about it.”</i></div>
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<i>But asked about his eligibility after his CPAC speech in a Q&A with Fox host Sean Hannity, Cruz said, “I was born in Calgary, my mother was an American citizen by birth, under federal law that made me an American citizen by birth. The Constitution requires that you be a natural-born citizen.”</i></div>
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<b>CRUZ ALSO <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams300.htm" target="_blank">SAID </a></b><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams300.htm" target="_blank">in an interview with the GOP TEXAS STATE COMMITTEE MEMBER</a> that Barack Obama was NOT a Natural Born Citizen and that the Constitutional definition of NBC was <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">“Two citizen parents and born on the soil.”</span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/did-ted-cruz-enter-the-us-illegally-in-1974">Conflicting reports from Cruz spokesperson on when he became a US citizen with proper docs</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/ted-cruz-can-strengthen-immigration-now.html" target="_blank">Where is his Consular Report of Birth Abroad</a> (Required since 1919 for foreign born US kids)<br />
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<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/ted-cruzs-ties-to-cia-wall-street-and.html" target="_blank">Wall Street (biggest receiver of funds in 2016 campaign) and (deep) CIA/NSA</a><br />
(Including CIA front to spread disinformation on Glen Greenwald's NSA reporting )<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-super-pac/index.html" target="_blank">Super Pac Ties to Mitch McConnell</a><br />
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Jeb Bush's brother Neil - <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/10/ted-cruz-a-bush-by-another-name/" target="_blank">Illegal bank lender and CommonCore profiteer - is now running the financial side of Ted's campaign</a>.<br />
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Ted <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/sad-ted-cruz-adds-tea-party-basher-neil-bush-to-team/" target="_blank">Cruz’s new national spokesman was one of the GOP thugs trying to stop the proliferation of the TEA Party</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gq.com/story/the-lost-love-letter-ted-cruz-wishes-he-never-wrote" target="_blank">Heidi Cruz's Position and Work on Council of Foreign Relations and a North American EU</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/04/04/can-you-handle-the-truth-ted-heidi-cruz-and-the-north-american-union/" target="_blank">Heidi Cruz was one of 18 committee members who worked for 5 years to override US law to create a North American (EU-like) Union</a>. It created two political organizations (new UN's for trade) that America would fund and the US would have to submit it's rights to an international court (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/10/tpps-clauses-that-let-australia-be-sued-are-weapons-of-legal-destruction-says-lawyer" target="_blank">explained here</a>). Her endorsement in the last part of the Task Force’s report, “Additional and Dissenting Views,” Heidi S. Cruz wrote (pp. 33-34) is as follows:<br />
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“I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us—truly the measure of our success. As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.”</blockquote>
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<a href="http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=706" target="_blank">Heidi Cruz positions as director at National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice and Deputy Director under former World Bank President ('07 - '12) / US Trade Representative head</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data" target="_blank">NSA (And Humanistic Modeling) Data Mining Companies for Personal Campaign Use</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416095/ted-cruz-has-not-so-secret-weapon-2016-his-wife-joel-gehrke" target="_blank">Ted's reliance on wife Heidi Cruz's input and her role in the campaign</a><br />
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<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/127717/ted-cruzs-howitzer" target="_blank">Hired Dirtiest Campaign Adviser in the Country</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160131" target="_blank">Gay "Lavender Mafia" Donors</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-29/ted-cruz-anti-gay-marriage-crusader-not-always" target="_blank">Refuses to Fight Against Gay Marriage after request to do so by Houston Mayor</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/ted-cruz-private-corporate-lawyer" target="_blank">Try to shut up corporate corruption whistle blower as corporate attorney</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/ted-cruz-at-princeton-creepy-sometimes-well-liked-and-exactly-the-same.html" target="_blank">College Days</a> - "creepy to girls on his dorm floor"<br />
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College Roommate: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFBfjWXy98" target="_blank">99% of why I hate him is his personality</a>. Even if I agreed with him politically, I would only hate him 1% less because of his personality. <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIqLPHpiC6o" target="_blank">George Bush disdain for his former employee (but no other candidate)</a><br />
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<a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/03/video-ted-cruz-dirty-tricks-explained-with-evidence/" target="_blank">Mitch McConnell and the GOP Establishment</a> (Then engineering fake distancing)<br />
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<li>Would not campaign for conservative challengers in 2013/2014</li>
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Here's What Ted Cruz Won't Tell You About His Days as a Corporate Lawyer<br />
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RIGHT TO LIFE group <a href="http://christiannewswire.com/news/9687577487.html" target="_blank">DISAVOWS endorsement of Ted Cruz</a> after he betrayed an earlier commitment to support the Georgia personhood pledge.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/well-what-do-you-know-ted-cruz-supported-eminent-domain-too-video/" target="_blank">Eminent Domain (for private businesses like ConocoPhillips using it)</a><br />
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<a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/ted-cruz-flips-on-obama-trade-agenda-after-months-of-support.html/">Flips position on ObamaTrade after months of support and Trump pressure</a><br />
WSJ: Writes Op-Ed in support of <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/08/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-changed-position-trade-promotion-authorit/">WITH Paul Ryan, then votes against it 2 months after</a>.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cozMqBTMI9Y" target="_blank">Video of Ted supporting</a> the sovereignty/constitution killing OTrade/TPA/FastTrack<br />
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In fact, Cruz AUTHORED the TPP bill in the Senate and AFTER THE FACT after telling everyone it would not include China (including in Nov 16 debates) but then <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/22/about-ted-cruz-using-trans-pacific-trade-deal-example/" target="_blank">voted AGAINST a prohibition against China entering</a>!! (It's actually <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/22/about-ted-cruz-using-trans-pacific-trade-deal-example/" target="_blank">much more calculated and duplicitous than that</a>.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/kevin-mccullough/2015/09/14/why-did-ted-cruz-give-obama-executive-action-on-iran" target="_blank">Sided with Obama on Giving Iran Nuclear Power</a> <br />
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Sen. Ted Cruz, fresh from his victory in the Iowa Republican caucuses, has done it again. He has told another whopper about his record on immigration. <br />
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<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruz-hasnt-ruled-out-legal-status-undocumented-imigrants" target="_blank">Cruz "Open" to Legal Status for Illegal Immigrants</a> <br />
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In only FIVE WEEKS went from telling Jake Tapper he would NOT consider mass deportation of illegals, and <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/23/cruz-you-better-believe-ill-order-mass-deportations-of-illegal-immigrants-too/" target="_blank">after losing South Carolina suddenly claims he would emphatically do so</a>. <br />
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<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/29/ted-cruz-abandons-criminal-justice-refor" target="_blank">Lower Mandatory Minimum Sentances</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-senate-vote-record-117201" target="_blank">Armed Services (Didn't show up to even 50% of his hearings)</a><br />
(But had plenty of time to campaign in <a href="http://www.billbennett.com/audio/robert-costa-explains-ted-cruzs-ground-game-data-analytics-advantage-helped-win-big-iowa/" target="_blank">Iowa</a>, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/ted-cruz-south-carolina-2016-election-105736" target="_blank">South Carolina</a> since elected.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/ted-cruz-private-corporate-lawyer" target="_blank">Defended Obama Stimulus for Union although condemned it publicly</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/7/ted-cruz-dont-let-anti-science-zealotry-shutdown-g/" target="_blank">Believes worries about proven cancer causing GMO's are "anti-science zealotry."</a><br />
(<a href="http://naturalsociety.com/study-links-gmos-22-different-diseases/" target="_blank">Proof GMO's correlate to 22 diseases</a>)<br />
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040523_Monsanto_71_farm_bill_Senators.html" target="_blank">With Rubio, wants to deny STATES RIGHT to label GMO's</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2016/02/how-trump-should-smash-cruz.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FKpwH+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29" target="_blank">Wants "evil" VAT tax</a> - Has <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/the-value-added-tax-should-be-political-poison-for-advocates-of-limited-government/" target="_blank">expanded government EVERY TIME it's implemented</a><br />
(<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/01/20/ted-cruzs-naive-vat-plan-would-lead-federal-tax-rates-to-soar/" target="_blank">Forbes</a> - <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/05/beware-the-value-added-tax" target="_blank">Heritage Foundation</a> - <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426997/no-value-added-tax-daniel-j-mitchell" target="_blank">National Review</a> - <a href="http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/vat-attack" target="_blank">CATO</a>)<br />
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Although VAT will expand power/role of IRS, Cruz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWkImxhTFTk" target="_blank">simultaneously called for it's abolishment</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gq.com/story/the-lost-love-letter-ted-cruz-wishes-he-never-wrote" target="_blank"> Supported/Defended (aggressively) NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND and Bush big government spending</a><br />
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As Solicitor General in Texas, Ted Cruz <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=0" target="_blank">kept a man who stole a calculator from a Walmart store in jail 16 years</a>, just to take the case to the Supreme Court.<br />
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Video – Senator Ted Cruz Demanding U.S. Take Syrian Refugees and Not Worry About Terrorist Embeds…<br />
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<li><b><span data-offset-key="dlfan-0-0"><span data-text="true">Amanda Carpenter initiated the idea of converting Carson caucus goers to Cruz</span></span></b></li>
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Ted Cruz had the worst showing in 109 years of any POTUS candidate in their home state. Ted spent $1M and had 50,000 volunteers. Texas had a 109% better turnout than 2008. However, in Maine where he spent no advertising, 4 hours away from Massachusetts where he hadn't won a single county 4 days earlier, he ended up with 46% of the vote and a GOP turnout of 342%. It is statistically impossible and is <a href="http://bit.ly/CruzME" target="_blank">vote fraud by the Cruz campaign</a>.<br />
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In Utah, <a href="http://dcwhispers.com/utah-voter-tells-troubling-tale-sham-caucus/" target="_blank">former GOP leaders witnessed OVERT vote fraud and ballot stuffing</a> by Cruz operatives.<br />
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Ted Cruz claims he was integral in the Bush/Gore vote recount "process" in Florida. <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/ted-cruz-2016-establishment-george-bush-213561" target="_blank">The leaders remember a single meeting with Cruz and nothing more</a>. “I have no recollection of working with him or ever seeing him involved in the process,” said Barry Richard, who was the Bush campaign’s lead counsel in Florida.<br />
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Ted Cruz is bashing John Roberts after years of praising him<br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-is-bashing-john-roberts-after-years-of-praising-him-2015-6" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com...</a><br />
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<a href="http://twitchy.com/2016/02/12/national-right-to-life-calls-cruz-attack-on-rubios-pro-life-record-inaccurate-and-misleading/" target="_blank">National Right To Life says Cruz ads "misleading"</a> on Rubio's record. <br />
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Few Cruz supporters - or Texans - know that <a href="http://www.billbennett.com/audio/robert-costa-explains-ted-cruzs-ground-game-data-analytics-advantage-helped-win-big-iowa/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook" target="_blank">Ted began his Presidential campaign THREE MONTHS into taking his Senate seat</a> a a first time congressmen. (<a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?314086-2/senator-cruz-remarks" target="_blank">Seven months after being elected he said his focus</a> "is not on poltiics" when asked if he was running.) He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/ted-cruz-2016_n_5902230.html" target="_blank">disingenuously denied</a> he had already begun running even while spending an inordinate amount of time and money in primary states.<br />
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Ted Cruz has taken a book from Adolph Hitler and Barak Obama in taking a big lie and proclaiming it so loudly, that no one would suspect someone like him would possibly make it. For example, He says in a fund raising letter that he "will never get" nor does he want "money from D.C. lobbyists or the special interest billionaires." His own filings tell a completely different story. (h/t The Gateway Pundit)<br />
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Cruz campaign appears to <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/08/ted-cruz-in-hot-water-over-possibly-illegal-fundraising-letter-sent-to-voters.html" target="_blank">violated HIS OWN STATE'S LAWS in sending out a fake "check"</a> to donor prospects. (Don't forget - he was Solicitor General of Texas).<br />
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<b> <u>THIS WON'T END BECAUSE OF WHO CRUZ HIRED</u></b><br />
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Here is a real sign of character. When he was running for Senate, the Dewhurst campaign sent out a mailer smearing and lying that Cruz represented a Chinese company stealing American blueprints. He even claimed he was incensed since it went to his father. <b>What did Cruz do?</b> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/127717/ted-cruzs-howitzer" target="_blank">He hired the man who created the mailer TO BE HIS presidential campaign architect</a>. A man who had no national political success to speak of at that time, but a reputation to be "the worst" of dirty politics, including driving some opponents to <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-adviser-admits-to-making-ad-that-allegedly-drove-missouri-pol-to-suicide/" target="_blank">suicide</a>.<br />
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Trey Gowdy similarly has had enough. A <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/developing-cruz-camp-accused-of-more-facebook-dirty-tricks-sued-for-illegal-fundraising-in-texas/" target="_blank">facebook post from a fake Trey Gowdy account</a> recently suggested that the Congressman has "had a change of heart" and switched his endorsement from Rubio to Cruz. Gowdy has absolutely no doubt the Cruz campaign is behind it:<br />
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<b><u>THE GOLDMAN SACHS AND CITIBANK LOAN LIES</u></b><br />
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Ron Paul came out yesterday created a furor by saying of Cruz, "<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268399-ron-paul-on-cruz-hes-owned-by-goldman-sachs" target="_blank"><b>he’s owned by Goldman Sachs</b>.</a>" The CrowdPAC chart to the right shows that not only is he the largest recipient of Wall Street donations, he has MORE than Hillary. Suddenly those <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/265831-cruz-did-not-disclose-goldman-sachs-loan-during-2012-senate" target="_blank">undisclosed loans from Goldman Sachs</a> and Citibank take on a new light. Two big reasons why this is damning:<br />
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<li>The <a href="http://www.fec.gov/pdf/candgui.pdf" target="_blank">law</a> is clear. So either Cruz can't manage accurate reporting (something he has derided political opponents and the White House about), or he was lying. </li>
<li>He was already <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/politics/ted-cruz-wall-street-loan-senate-bid-2012.html?_r=0" target="_blank">caught lying</a> about this. Cruz had an eloquent story he originally told:</li>
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“<span style="color: red;">Sweetheart, I’d like us to liquidate our entire net worth, liquid net worth, and put it into the campaign</span>,” he says he told his wife, Heidi, who readily agreed.</blockquote>
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The truth is "liquidate" to Ted was to get a sweetheart loan from his wife's employer and the CAMPAIGN paid it back. The Cruz's were never out a penny. And it was a Hillary-like "we were broke" moment.<br />
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Getting confirmation from the FEC of these violations, a former Cruz supporter jumped to Trump after hearing Ted blatantly lie about the facts.. <a href="http://laurenstephens.com/" target="_blank">A Must Read with FEC documentation</a>.<br />
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Ted Cruz said: "I will never get—nor do I want—money from the D.C. lobbyists or the special interest billionaires," <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/dont-believe-ted-cruz-when-he-says-he-doesnt-take-lobbyist-money" target="_blank">but during his 2012 run for the Senate, Cruz accepted $125,450 in donations from 92 registered lobbyists</a> (and $21,500 from their family members). It's worse now. (See above)</div>
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DOZENS of <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/23/yet-another-fec-inquiry-into-ted-cruz-sketchy-financial-statements-84-page-pdf/" target="_blank">Federal Election Commission violations and improprieties</a> with only 3 states completed in the primaries including accepting foreign contributions and scores of donors exceeding the legal limit.</div>
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<b><u>THE IOWA CARSON DECEPTION AND LIES CHRONOLOGY</u></b><br />
(Breitbart <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">timeline</a> - TalkingPointsMemo <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-carson-dirty-tricks-iowa-caucuses-timeline" target="_blank">timeline</a>)<u> </u><br />
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<li><b>6:41 pm </b><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">CNN tweets</a> Carson going to FL after IA but NOT dropping race.</li>
<li><b>6:44 pm </b>CNN’s Dana Bash says it is "unusual" but <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-cnn-republican-debate/" target="_blank">DOES NOT SAY CARSON dropping out</a>.</li>
<li><b>6:53 pm </b>Cruz campaign does NOT verify report with Carson, but <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">sends email/text/post </a>to that "Carson taking time off with big announcement next week."</li>
<li><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-carson-dirty-tricks-iowa-caucuses-timeline" target="_blank"><b>6:53 pm </b>Carson campaign clarifies report</a> that he is "only going home to get clean clothes" NOT dropping out of race. <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/boom-karl-rove-explains-how-cruz-camps-cheating-stole-iowa-from-trump-video/" target="_blank">Carson campaign tweets "We're here!"</a></li>
<li><b>7:00 pm Iowa Caucus Begins</b> </li>
<li><b>7:01 pm </b><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/boom-karl-rove-explains-how-cruz-camps-cheating-stole-iowa-from-trump-video/" target="_blank">Cruz campaign sends text/email blast to 1500 precinct chairpeople</a> implying Carson getting out of race, and to TELL CARSON supporters to vote for Cruz. Cruz Tweet <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/cruz-rumor-carson-575x565.jpg" target="_blank">here.</a></li>
<li><b>7:05 pm</b> Carson campaign <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">spokesperson clarifies Carson is in race</a>. </li>
<li><b>7:07 pm</b> <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/04/explosive-audio-surfaces-cruz-campaign-telling-iowa-precinct-captains-carson-had-dropped-out-of-race/" target="_blank">Cruz sends audio message</a> to campaign that Carson is getting out of campaign, "tell Carson supporters, and tell them to vote for Cruz."</li>
<li><b>7:12 pm</b> National Cruz Co-Chair, US Representative Steve King <a href="https://twitter.com/Cheri_Kentucky/status/694832471565832192" target="_blank">equates</a> "leaving early is same as suspending campaign."</li>
<li><b>7:20 pm</b> Even AFTER others protest to Rep. King, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/breaking-carson-accuses-cruz-camp-of-foul-play-at-iowa-caucuses/" target="_blank">King tweets</a>, "guess he's out. hope people vote for Cruz." </li>
<li><b>7:29 pm</b> Second audio goes to all Cruz supporters saying same as <b>7:07 pm </b>message.</li>
<li><b>7:30 pm</b> Major <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/694332832248958977" target="_blank">news broadcasters continue denials of false report</a>, and Cruz continuing to send out false messages - <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/cruz-carson-email-trump-iowa-cnn/" target="_blank">CNN AGAIN sends clarifying tweet Carson is in</a>.</li>
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<li><b>10:52 pm </b>Cruz Public Relations chief (Professional CIA disinformation operative with ties to George Soros) <a href="http://www.impulsetoday.com/breaking-ted-cruzs-pr-guy-who-slanders-trump-for-carson-lie-is-founder-of-shilling-company/" target="_blank">sends multiple tweets trying to blame Trump campaign, then deletes it</a>.</li>
<li>Cruz <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-cnn-republican-debate/" target="_blank">FLAT LIED that CNN had inaccurately reported that Carson was suspending his campaign</a> "from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15," and "<b>didn't correct that story until 9:15 that night</b>."</li>
<li> Cruz finally admits wrongdoing, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/carson-other-campaigns-sabotaged-us-dirty-tricks-n509396" target="_blank">apologizes to Ben Carson</a> - WHILE blaming CNN.</li>
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R), who opposed Cruz openly during the race, <a href="http://www.radioiowa.com/2016/02/04/branstad-says-cruz-employed-unethical-and-unfair-tactics-monday-night/" target="_blank">said Thursday</a> that Cruz’s tactics had been “unethical and unfair.”<br />
Also on Thursday, Carson said that the Cruz campaign never tried to verify the truth before sending false information to supporters.<br />
“As a Christian man, I accept the apology he has since offered and I take him at his word that he didn’t know,” Carson said. “But no actions have been taken to correct the problem. That I cannot accept.<br />
“One thing is now clear — while Senator Cruz may preach against the ‘Washington Cartel,’ he will still adopt, or at least not condemn, Cartel tactics for his own political gain,” Carson wrote.</blockquote>
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<u><b>NSA STYLE DATA MINING and SPYWARE</b></u> <br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data" target="_blank">Cruz is taking Facebook data - mostly without permission - from millions for his campaign</a><br />
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<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2db0fc93cf664a63909e26e708e91c67/cruz-app-data-collection-helps-campaign-read-minds-voters" target="_blank">Cruz planting SPYWARE on Cruz user phones to get names, addresses of friends and contacts</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/02/sen-ted-cruz-take-off-your-goodie-good-two-shoes/" target="_blank">Cruz software classifies users as "neurotic"</a>- even those taken without permission - if they have concerns about country, illegal immigration or gun control<br />
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"Cruz had a London-based firm on call to tell him which Iowans were introverted and which were neurotic." (<a alt=" Sen. Ted Cruz, Take Off Your Goodie-Good Two Shoes... " href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-campaign-credits-psychological-data-and-analytics-for-its-rising-success/2015/12/13/4cb0baf8-9dc5-11e5-bce4-708fe33e3288_story.html" target="_blank" title=" Sen. Ted Cruz, Take Off Your Goodie-Good Two Shoes... ">Source</a>) </blockquote>
Well <a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article190187.html" target="_blank">referenced expose of psy-ops forces behind the Cruz campaign</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/" target="_blank">Lies about His Tithing and Charitable Giving to Christian Reporter</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/cruz-says-he-hasnt-attacked-his-colleagues-despite-attacking-his-colleagues/article/2001141" target="_blank">Cruz uses Bible as prop, saying he responds to insults with kindness - and then calls others "liars"</a> and worse. <br />
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Ted Cruz tells Morningstar Church, Trump is "for" ObamaCare. Only thing is CRUZ KNOWS THIS ISN'T TRUE since <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/donald-trump-donation-to-ted-cruz-doesnt-mean-support-for-2016/" target="_blank">Cruz spoke at Trump's resort and Trump gave him $5,000 citing his filibuster over ObamaCare</a>.<br />
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<li>Ann Coulter <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/" target="_blank">documents ObamaCare lies against Trump</a> by Cruz interview with Megyn Kelly.</li>
<li>TED CRUZ DELEGATE and <a href="https://csteventucker.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/no-senator-cruz-donald-trump-does-not-want-single-payer-health-care/" target="_blank">insurance expert exposes Ted Cruz lies against Trump on ObamaCare</a></li>
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<a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/02/sen-ted-cruz-take-off-your-goodie-good-two-shoes/" target="_blank">Cruz gives Carly Fiorina $500,000</a> during campaign. (Need to see if coincides with her attacks on Trump.)<br />
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Pattern of Lies: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/cruz-campaign-apologizes-for-spreading-false-story-that-rubio-trashed-the-bible/article/2001198" target="_blank">Cruz campaign spreads false story that Rubio trashes the Bible</a>. Cruz fires Communication Director. (What kind of campaign do you have when your head of communications even considers posting and spreading a false story to begin with!?)<br />
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Although Cruz fired the Communication Director, he continues to stump with Glenn Beck <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/ted-cruz-fired-campaign-spokesman-for-doing-same-thing-top-supporter-glenn-beck-did-to-trump/" target="_blank">WHO IS DOING THE EXACT THING FOR WHICH THE DIRECTOR WAS FIRED.</a> <br />
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Glenn Beck who said it wasn't Christian to vote for Donald, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/04/glenn-beck-if-i-got-close-enough-to-trump-the-stabbing-just-wouldnt-stop-audio/" target="_blank">says it's ok to "stab" Donald Trump</a>. No rebuke from Ted Cruz.<br />
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Ted Cruz lied in the 3-4-16 FOX debate saying Trump gave to Hillary 4 times. CNN and WaPo both say <a href="http://newsninja2012.com/cruz-trump-wrote-4-checks-to-hillary-2008-presidential-campaign-cnn-fact-check-says-thats-not-true/" target="_blank">Trump gave NOTHING to Hillary Clinton</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://opinion.injo.com/2016/01/252498-said-undecided-iowan-received-controversial-mailer-ted-cruz/?_ga=1.27866684.1039493435.1450793485" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://opinion.injo.com/2016/01/252498-said-undecided-iowan-received-controversial-mailer-ted-cruz/?_ga=1.27866684.1039493435.1450793485" border="0" src="http://journal.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/twitter.jpg" height="320" width="205" /></a>Sent Obama-like <a href="http://opinion.injo.com/2016/01/252498-said-undecided-iowan-received-controversial-mailer-ted-cruz/?_ga=1.27866684.1039493435.1450793485" target="_blank">"voter violation" mailers</a> to Iowans SHOWING THEM how their neighbors voted, and suggesting they were in "violation" if they didn't vote. (Iowa Gov investigation possible voter fraud violation)<br />
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/george-w-bush-is-the-person-most-responsible-for-ted-cruzs-political-success/" target="_blank">Gave "vigorous defense" (according to George W) of Roberts appointment then denied he ever supported him to Bush.</a><br />
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<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/crazy-unpopular-ted-cruz-is-also-dishonest.html" target="_blank">Congressional Budget and Economy</a><br />
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<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/crazy-unpopular-ted-cruz-is-also-dishonest.html" target="_blank">Liberal and Mainstream Reporters Frustrated at Cruz's Evasiveness and Lies (Not Policy)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/george-w-bush-is-the-person-most-responsible-for-ted-cruzs-political-success/" target="_blank">Cruz SuperPac head admits would have hard time breaking "establishment" label without George W. Bush's comments</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-29/ted-cruz-anti-gay-marriage-crusader-not-always" target="_blank">Huge gay GOProud donor is one of Cruz's biggest donors</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/23/ted-cruz-busted-lying-health-insurance.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz lies in New Hampshire</a>, "I don’t have health care right now." (In fact not only did his insurance company give him MONTHS to move to another plan, it automatically did enroll him in one."<br />
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Here Cruz operatives <b>break Iowa election law </b>by handing out old photos of Donald Trump with Bill and Hillary Clinton:<br />
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Cruz campaign <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/18/cruz-uses-fake-photo-of-rubio-and-obama-rubio-camp-decries-dishonest-tactics/" target="_blank">photoshops head of Marco Rubio unto another person's body </a>shaking hands with President Obama. CNN reporter said campaign AT FIRST TRIED TO DENY responsibility.<br />
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Cruz conducts <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/19/latest-pro-cruz-robocall-bashes-trump-for-agreeing-to-lgbt-agenda/" target="_blank">false robocalls in SC</a> claiming Trump will EXPAND gay/lesbian rights from off the cuff response by Trump to lesbian reporter "That's your thing. Other people have their thing. We have to bring people together."<br />
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Ted Cruz blatantly lies that neither Trump or Rubio would rescind Obama's Executive Orders despite BOTH saying it in debates and in their stump speeches. One <a href="https://twitter.com/NateBell4AR/status/701933075815501824" target="_blank">example</a>:<br />
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Smeared Donald Trump's sister as a "radical pro-abortion extremist” <a href="http://dcwhispers.com/the-lie-that-had-donald-trump-most-angry-at-ted-cruz-the-attack-on-his-sister/" target="_blank">despite being nominated to the bench by Ronald Reagan, condemning the woman's lib movement</a>, and forcefully testified in favor of conservative Judge Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. (Also, she ruled on the partial birth abortion case mentioned EXACTLY as Justice Samuel Alito did - although her opinion did not defend the prolife argument.)<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-61428035991986505752016-02-10T13:05:00.000-08:002016-03-24T14:22:08.716-07:00Ted Cruz Can Strengthen Immigration Now<br />
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Why do Cruz supporters who claim Ted is every bit as strong on illegal immigration issues as Trump, not actually ASK for documentation from their candidate to prove he is even a US citizen let alone a <i>natural born</i> one?<br />
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They will (rightly) demand current US residents who can not prove their right to be here to either be deported or at least penalized as Cruz originally suggested in his <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/01/ted_cruz_may_be_the_most_gifted_liar_ever_to_run_for_president.single.html" target="_blank">green card plan</a>. NOT ONE CRUZ SUPPORTER WOULD ACCEPT the "word" of Iraqi, Syrian or Mexican immigrant without proof. Many have tweeted, posted and blogged about the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/10/almost-half-of-california-drivers-licenses-went-to-illegal-immigrants-in-2015/" target="_blank">650,000 California Driver's Licenses that went to illegals in 2015</a>. But, when given a chance to themselves, do their own due diligence on someone of question, there is bupkis or deflection. Isn't this hypocritical?<br />
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Forget for a moment that a 1971 Supreme Court decision (with a subject with EXACTLY the same situation as Ted Cruz) found that under the 14th Amendment, Ted Cruz <a href="http://SCOTUS finding from 1971 (Rogers v Bellei) with EXACT circumstances as Cruz found that he would not even be a citizen." target="_blank">IS NOT EVEN A US CITIZEN</a>. <br />
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There is however a filing called a <b>Consular Record of Birth Abroad</b> (CRBA) that is required for foreign born children of US parents to file to retain the right to their United States citizenship. It has been in existence since 1919 (Ancestry.com uses it to build family trees) and you can even <a href="http://toronto.usconsulate.gov/service/consular-report-of-birth-abroad.html" target="_blank">read about it</a> at the United States Consulate in Toronto, Canada.<br />
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<b>Where is Ted's CRBA?</b> Why aren't Cruz supporters demanding it like they did Obama's records?<br />
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Ted Cruz is clear (now) on where he stands regarding his eligibility. In <span class="st">Laconia, New Hampshire at a campaign rally, a 17 year old, first time voter wanted to know why it took 43 years for Cruz to know he was still a Canadian citizen, much less formally file to renounce it. The kid wasn't especially respectful (the full exchange <a href="https://youtu.be/lq7tbtGtcwU" target="_blank">here</a>) and of course, Ted never actually answered it. He claims the facts are clear. His mother was born in Deleware, he was born in Calgary, Canada, and then he rushes very quickly to say that his parents "lived there." (He wisely doesn't mention his father's citizenship or the fact his father chose Canadian asylum over US.) </span><br />
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As you see in the NH stump video above, it is his position that:<br />
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"<b>Under US law, the child of a citizen born abroad, is a natural born citizen</b>."</blockquote>
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Notice he didn't say "the Constitution." We don't know which law to which he is referring. His surrogates were broadly pushing the Immigration of Act of 1790 which, unfortunately for he and Mark Levin, was actually <a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-illinois-board-of-elections-got-it.html" target="_blank">repealed in 1795</a>. Moreover we have the House Subcommittee notes (<a href="http://natural-borncitizens.com/nbcfiles/nbc_McElwee.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>) <a href="https://libertyborn.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/new-evidence-1790-naturalization-act/" target="_blank">explaining</a> the reason for the repeal (rather than merely amend) precisely because they didn't want anyone to assume a foreign born child of US parents would automatically become a "natural born citizen."<br />
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So whether or not the "law" that he believes miraculously entitles him to "natural born" status exists or not, there <b><i>is</i></b> a law for US parents of foreign born children like Ted. It requires the CRBA to be filed prior to the child's 18th birthday <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/events-and-records/birth.html" target="_blank">along with other stipulations</a>.<br />
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<b>If they do NOT file this, they are not even to be considered US citizens.</b> <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Michael Lubetsky, a Canadian who was on the Princeton debate team with Cruz, has come forward <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">saying that not only did Cruz know, he talked about it often</a>. (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-citizenship-childhood/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>)</span></b><br />
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This is in direct contradiction to a <a href="http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2015/03/02/cruz-controlled-on-teds-cpac-setback/" target="_blank">statement his Senate office released in 2014</a> saying:<br />
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<i>Given the raft of stories today about
my birth certificate, it must be a slow news day. The facts of my birth
are straightforward: I was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada. Because my
mother was a U.S. citizen, born in Delaware, I was a U.S. citizen by
birth. When I was a kid, my Mom told me that I could choose to claim
Canadian citizenship if I wanted. I got my U.S. passport in high school.</i></div>
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<i>Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth,
because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since
then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to
claim Canadian citizenship, <u><b>I assumed that was the end of the matter</b></u>.
Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual
citizenship. Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any
Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by
birth and as a U.S. Senator, I believe I should be only an American.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If Cruz is allowed to hold a Senate office, much less run for President, as a dual citizen without A) renouncing allegiance to his non-US allegiance at least 14 years before running for office and B) not proving that he has proper immigration documentation then ANY foreign national can run for any office and begin to exert ANY agenda - overt or covert - without any understanding, allegiance or commitment to US values. </b></span><br />
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And this is before dealing with whether he is "natural born" or not.<br />
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The founders had <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/02/logical-founders-fathers-intent-real.html" target="_blank">very good reasons</a> to be concerned about foreign infiltration and influence into the most powerful position of our government. So much so, that George Washington had the eligibility rules for President and Vice President in the Constitution changed from a mere "citizen born" on US soil, to a "natural born citizen" in the final draft. Contrary to the spin that Obama acolytes used to make (and now Cruz's), there is an <a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-citizen-is-one-thing-but-natural-born.html" target="_blank">enormous mound of evidence</a> clearly defining "natural born citizen" from private letters from John Jay (who would become the first Supreme Court Chief Justice), to the Federalist papers to <span class="st"><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">Supreme Court rulings</a>. Even <b>Winston Churchill</b> - who like Cruz had a US born mother, a foreign father and was born on foreign soil - <a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-winston-churchill-was-not-even.html" target="_blank">knew (and said) that the Constitution would need to be amended</a> for him to be eligible to run for President of the United States.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Harvard Law Professor, Former Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to Obama's campaign,<b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank">Einer Elhauge</a>, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/obama-advisor-harvard-law-professors-ny.html" target="_blank"><b>filed an amicus brief</b> </a>at the New York Supreme Court advising the court that <a href="http://po.st/BXspGl" target="_blank">Canadian-born Ted Cruz</a> is not eligible to be president under the <a href="http://wp.me/pPOcT-4w9" target="_blank"><i>Article II <u>natural born Citizen</u></i> requirement</a>. Elhauge also says it's not a political question. </span></blockquote>
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Current
Hawaiian US Senator Mazie Hirono was born to a US citizen mother and a
foreign father in a foreign land. Her mother brought her to the US when
she was seven years old. <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/24/if-sen-mazie-hirono-is-a-naturalized-citizen-how-is-ted-cruz-natural-born/" target="_blank">She defines herself as an immigrant is a "naturalized citizen" according to her biography</a>. <br />
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When running for Senate, <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz ADMITTED to a GOP Assemblywoman and Latino paper that he was not eligible to be President</a>. Things suddenly changed when he saw the grassroots support available to him when he ran for Senate.<br />
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<span class="st">Which leaves a few questions for Senator Cruz.</span><br />
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<li><span class="st"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Which law gives you "natural born citizen" status as a foreign born child of one US parent?</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span class="st"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Since all other foreign born children of US parents had to file a <u>Consular Record of Birth Abroad</u> before they were <br />18 years old, did your mother file one? Where is your copy (or will you ask for the State Department to release it)?</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span class="st"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Can you explain why the Founders went to extreme measures to only exempt "citizens born in the US" at the signing of the Constitution but used "natural born citizens" in the final draft which Founder/Historian David Ramsey <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/33676461/Founder-and-Historian-David-Ramsay-Defined-Natural-Born-Citizenship-in-1789-by-Atty-Mario-Apuzzo" target="_blank">clearly stated</a> excluded foreign born children? </b></span></span></li>
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<li><span class="st"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Can you explain why <a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/08/law-of-nations-and-not-english-common.html" target="_blank">in 1875 the Supreme Court said</a> that the term "natural born citizen," though not defined in the Constitution was "<u>never doubted</u>" to be a child born on US soil to TWO (2) US citizen parents?</b></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st">Cruz followers; if you love the Constitution as much as you say you do, isn't it your obligation for every candidate (including Marco Rubio) to provide PROOF that they are at least a Citizen of the United States for a Driver's License, much less to serve as the chief of all Federal law enforcement over our country?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st"><b>Here's a bonus</b>. Just think how idiotic you can make those of us questioning this look if the documents are provided by your candidate and the answers to the questions above are clearly answered.</span></span><br />
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If not, you at least can take pride in doing your civic duty in defending the Constitution and our beloved United States of America against ALL forces - foreign and domestic - that might try to weaken us.<br />
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It just gets more and more interesting. If you hate liberty and believe the NSA has a right to spy on you, you'll love Ted Cruz. <br />
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In addition to Heidi and Ted's many big bank, big government, CIA ties, we now find that a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-super-pac/index.html" target="_blank">shadowy SuperPAC</a>,
with millions from unidentified donors is run by the former attorney
for Mitch McConnell and attack ALL Cruz competitors. Another operative attached is Keats Norfleet, who operated the career of Super RINO Dwayne Bohac in Texas.<br />
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One of the big
donors behind this? German born Peter Thiel (founder of Paypal) with DEEP
CIA/FBI/DARPA ties. Thiel was one of <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2011/04/truth-about-facebook-cia-us-government.html" target="_blank">the first investors of Facebook</a>
and as biggest shareholder in Palantir, is deeply enmeshed with
government at all levels including the Obama White House. Palantir <a href="https://www.palantir.com/2013/06/announcing-changes-to-the-palantir-council-of-advisors-on-privacy-and-civil-liberties/" target="_blank">recruits</a> the likes of former counsel to Joe Biden. Anonymous
uncovered efforts by Thiel's company to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#WikiLeaks_proposals_.282010.29" target="_blank">spread disinformation</a>" about journalist Greg Greenwald's work. Clearly they are more than software company.<br />
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We already <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/why-are-cruz-christians-allowing.html" target="_blank">learned</a> that former DHS head Michael Chertoff hired a former Goldman Sachs executive to combine all the information flows from ALL intelligence communities (NSA/FBI/CIA/DHS/NSA), and that former Goldman Sachs exec is now Chertoff's partner, and CHIEF of Ted Cruz's campaign.<br />
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Add to that James Woolsey, Cruz's Foreign Policy Adviser. From <a href="http://exposingmodernmugwumps.com/tag/ted-cruz-and-james-woolsey/" target="_blank">Exposing Modern Mugwumps</a>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Woolsey
was a national security specialist and former Director of the CIA under
the Clinton administration. He heads up many Neoconservative groups
including being the Chairman of the Foundation for Defence of
Democracies, and Founding Member of the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">More
than just academic advocacy of the military-industrial complex and the
global deployment of American troops to force democracy on the world,
Woolsey has no problem putting the noose around those who act against
the growth of the government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">In
a December 2013 interview with Fox News, Woolsey made the following
shocking statement when asked about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: “I
think giving him amnesty is idiotic,” Woolsey said. “He should be
prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should
be hanged by his neck until he is dead.” [<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3327298/Ex-CIA-head-James-Woolsey-said-d-like-watch-Edward-Snowden-hanged-treason.html" target="_blank">Link</a>]</span></div>
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And much much more. <br />
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Here is an excerpt from <i><b>"<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/the-concordance-of-cruz-corruption.html" target="_blank">The Concordance of Cruz Corruption Deceptions and Lies</a>"</b></i> <br />
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<u><b>NSA STYLE DATA MINING and SPYWARE</b></u> <br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data" target="_blank">Cruz is taking Facebook data - mostly without permission - from millions for his campaign</a><br />
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<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2db0fc93cf664a63909e26e708e91c67/cruz-app-data-collection-helps-campaign-read-minds-voters" target="_blank">Cruz planting SPYWARE on Cruz user phones to get names, addresses of friends and contacts</a><br />
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<a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/02/sen-ted-cruz-take-off-your-goodie-good-two-shoes/" target="_blank">Cruz software classifies users as "neurotic"</a>- even those taken without permission - if they have concerns about country, illegal immigration or gun control<br />
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"Cruz had a London-based firm on call to tell him which Iowans were introverted and which were neurotic." (<a alt=" Sen. Ted Cruz, Take Off Your Goodie-Good Two Shoes... " href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-campaign-credits-psychological-data-and-analytics-for-its-rising-success/2015/12/13/4cb0baf8-9dc5-11e5-bce4-708fe33e3288_story.html" target="_blank" title=" Sen. Ted Cruz, Take Off Your Goodie-Good Two Shoes... ">Source</a>) </blockquote>
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Ron Paul came out yesterday created a furor by saying of Cruz, "<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268399-ron-paul-on-cruz-hes-owned-by-goldman-sachs" target="_blank"><b>he’s owned by Goldman Sachs</b>.</a>" The CrowdPAC chart to the right shows that not only is he the largest recipient of Wall Street donations, he has MORE than Hillary.<br />
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Suddenly those <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/265831-cruz-did-not-disclose-goldman-sachs-loan-during-2012-senate" target="_blank">undisclosed loans from Goldman Sachs</a> and Citibank take on a new light. Two big reasons why this is damning:<br />
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<ol>
<li>The <a href="http://www.fec.gov/pdf/candgui.pdf" target="_blank">law</a> is clear. So either Cruz can't manage accurate reporting (something he has derided political opponents and the White House about), or he was lying. </li>
<li>He was already <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/politics/ted-cruz-wall-street-loan-senate-bid-2012.html?_r=0" target="_blank">caught lying</a> about this. Cruz had an eloquent story he originally told:</li>
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“<span style="color: red;">Sweetheart, I’d like us to liquidate our entire net worth, liquid net
worth, and put it into the campaign</span>,” he says he told his wife, Heidi,
who readily agreed.</blockquote>
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The truth is "liquidate" to Ted was to get a sweetheart loan from his wife's employer and the CAMPAIGN paid it back. The Cruz's were never out a penny. And it was a Hillary-like "we were broke" moment.<br />
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With Ted backing Obama on eliminating US sovereignty with his vote on TPP, and Heidi <a href="http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=706" target="_blank">trying to hide</a>
her ties to former World Bank President, the Agenda 21 EU-like North
American Union effort, and her role as director for the Western
Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice, it's
not a reach to see a systematic suppression of Heidi and Ted's Big
Government and Wall Street backgrounds that existed for Ted up until 10
years ago and hasn't stopped with Heidi. <br />
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<i>(As to Cruz's
deflection attempt to claim this is an attack on his wife, it is CRUZ
who says he doesn't make a major decision without her and <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416095/ted-cruz-has-not-so-secret-weapon-2016-his-wife-joel-gehrke" target="_blank">she is his "closest adviser."</a>, Heidi gloats <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2015/03/heidi-nelson-cruz-ted-cruz-canadian-nationality-wife-family-citizenship-president-job-photos-children/" target="_blank">she is</a>
"one half of a great team." Moreover, former Goldman turned DHS/CIA
turned Chertoff Group turned Cruz Campaign Chief Chad Sweet (who
recruited Heidi at Goldman) <a href="http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=706" target="_blank">says</a>, "She works the phones the way she worked them when she was at Goldman." You can't have it both ways.)</i><br />
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Regardless, Cruz is at least a lying opportunist, and more likely, something much, much worse.<br />
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Expect government infringement on ALL of your communications not only to continue under a Cruz administration - expect them to expand. <br />
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<b>UPDATE: Christian Evangelical icon Mike Huckabee, one of the most gentle, soft spoken candidates ever, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/ouch-mike-huckabee-unloads-on-low-life-sleazy-politics-of-ted-cruz/">is openly calling Ted Cruz</a> "“Nasty…Stealing…Lowlife…Sleazy…” </b>Reminds you also of George W. Bush, who says NOTHING bad even about Obama or other competitors to his brother, but has open disdain for Ted. This should not be taken likely.<br />
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I detest the Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Jeb supporters who can't be honest about their own candidate's failings. Almost all of these people seem to be Christian, but they some how think it's fine to act like liberals and not acknowledge even the BASIC flaws of their candidate, defending lies and worse. Why is that?<br />
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Worse, they don't do even basic research to find out who they are really defending. If their candidate says it they ignorantly just assume it must be true then find themselves terribly embarrassed (and discredited) over defending actions that are not only unethical but calculated. And as I explain below, this will keep happening to Ted Cruz. It <i>is</i> intentional.<br />
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Now that the Caucus fraud has been irrefutably proven that the Cruz campaign <b>intentionally</b> misrepresented Carson's situation to steal votes even after Carson sent a corrected release (<b><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/ben-carson-demands-punishment-for-cruz-campaign/">here</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.impulsetoday.com/breaking-ted-cruzs-pr-guy-who-slanders-trump-for-carson-lie-is-founder-of-shilling-company/">here</a></b>) - not one of the Judeo/Christian Cruz supporters has had the integrity to admit they were wrong. In their eyes it's just "politics" and hypocritically won't admit they would be hammering this 24/7 if it happened to their candidate. In just one precinct where Cruz's operatives were pushing the lie, Ben Carson's WIFE walked in <a href="http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=5621">as Cruz operatives were spreading the lies</a>, and Carson ended up in SECOND place- much more in line with the pre-caucus polling. These people are like Obots who still claim Barry has saved the economy and is a Christian. Stick your head in the sand. Who cares if the Soros-affiliated PR head of the Cruz campaign who was <a href="http://www.impulsetoday.com/breaking-ted-cruzs-pr-guy-who-slanders-trump-for-carson-lie-is-founder-of-shilling-company/" target="_blank">caught red handed trying to blame Trump</a> as well. No wonder our children and nation have no moral compass. </div>
What gets me, is a lot of these people endorsed the RINO-Rubio loving Santorum in the last election, (who misled a huge number of Christians because they didn't do even <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/slutss-for-santorum-part-1-truth.html" target="_blank">BASIC research into fact checking his representations</a>) - they are now doing the same with Cruz. His campaign is run by a former Goldman Sachs executive who profited from the push of TSA scanning machines, his wife STILL is employed by Goldman Sachs on leave, and his campaign originally tried to HIDE her ties to the Council of Foreign Relations and her ex-World Bank President boss on Wikipedia, much less his loans from them. Nothing to see here, move along....unless it's Chelsea. <br />
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A normally intelligent TEA Party activist here in Texas wrote a puff piece on Ted Cruz "What We Know About Ted Cruz in Texas" and refused to address that he actively pushed and defended Bush's NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. She did the same with Santorum. Apparently, she doesn't have an ability to admit ANY wrongdoing - just like our current Muslim President. These people seem oblivious that Heidi Cruz helped write and promote the <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/04/04/can-you-handle-the-truth-ted-heidi-cruz-and-the-north-american-union/">EU-like <b>Agenda 21</b></a> North American Union plan. Yet nary a peep from my supposed conservative friends about Ted's vote with Barak Barry to hand over American sovereignty with his <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/03/video-ted-cruz-dirty-tricks-explained-with-evidence/" target="_blank">support of TPP</a>. <br />
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You'd think that after Cruz told gay donors at a NY apartment (where a gay bartender died of drug overdose only six months earlier).that <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160131" target="_blank">he would have "no problem" if one of his daughter was gay</a> at the SAME TIME he was in churches condemning the gay lifestyle, they'd start to look a bit more closely at him. <br />
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Of course not. And the fact that Ted changed his <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/the-lost-love-letter-ted-cruz-wishes-he-never-wrote" target="_blank">big government rhetoric</a> just 10 years ago as he began to orchestrate his calculated political quest? No biggie. Who cares if Ted Cruz never had any intention of actually serving the people of Texas as Senator. <b>Only three (3) months</b> after taking his Senate seat, he began running for President as National Review reporter Robert Costa explains in this radio <a href="http://www.billbennett.com/audio/robert-costa-explains-ted-cruzs-ground-game-data-analytics-advantage-helped-win-big-iowa/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook" target="_blank">interview</a>. Who cares if he has <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-senate-vote-record-117201" target="_blank">the second worst attendance record in the Senate</a> and can't be bothered to show up even 50% of the time for his position on the Armed Services Committee. Rubio is even worse. (That's right, Hillary had a better attendance record than Marco Rubio.)<br />
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There is no perfect politician. Cruz still has done some great conservative things. But the inability for CHRISTIANS to accept meditated deception and lying is disgusting. Can't you still support "your guy" but at least be honest about what they do or did? </div>
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All candidates try to put a spin on their accomplishments. But Cruz's abilities are premeditated and Clintonian. As Sarah Palin expressed, one of her reasons for not endorsing the man she put into the Senate, was that he lied on his immigration record. He was ok. But he continually lies about what his real positions were and revises history to score cheap political points, rather than simply be truthful about what he said and did at the time. Politico documents just THREE of these instances <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/01/ted_cruz_may_be_the_most_gifted_liar_ever_to_run_for_president.single.html" target="_blank">here</a> in their article entitled, "<b><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/01/ted_cruz_may_be_the_most_gifted_liar_ever_to_run_for_president.single.html" target="_blank">Ted Cruz may be the most gifted liar to run for President</a></b>." Hate Trump and Rubio, but they at least admit they held contrary opinions on many things before they ran for President and explain why.</div>
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It's not just immigration. It's almost everything else which is why even his conservative Senate fellows dislike him. <b>Chuck Grassley</b> called Cruz's Criminal Justice Reform where he wanted to do away with minimum mandatory sentences as "lenient," and <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/29/ted-cruz-abandons-criminal-justice-refor" target="_blank">now pretends it never happened</a>. And worse, Ted ended up supporting NOTHING of value in the end. As a Texan, can I get my money back?<br />
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Ron Paul came out yesterday created a furor by saying of Cruz, "<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268399-ron-paul-on-cruz-hes-owned-by-goldman-sachs" target="_blank"><b>he’s owned by Goldman Sachs</b>.</a>" The CrowdPAC chart to the right shows that not only is he the largest recipient of Wall Street donations, he has MORE than Hillary. Suddenly those <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/265831-cruz-did-not-disclose-goldman-sachs-loan-during-2012-senate" target="_blank">undisclosed loans from Goldman Sachs</a> and Citibank take on a new light. Two big reasons why this is damning:<br />
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“<span style="color: red;">Sweetheart, I’d like us to liquidate our entire net worth, liquid net worth, and put it into the campaign</span>,” he says he told his wife, Heidi, who readily agreed.</blockquote>
The truth is "liquidate" to Ted was to get a sweetheart loan from his wife's employer and the CAMPAIGN paid it back. The Cruz's were never out a penny. And it was a Hillary-like "we were broke" moment.<br />
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And then there is THIS from the Ted Cruz campaign. He says in a fund raising letter that he "will never get" nor does he want "money from D.C. lobbyists or the special interest billionaires." And yet like Obama and Clinton BLATANTLY deceives based upon his own filings.<br />
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<u>THIS WON'T END BECAUSE OF WHO CRUZ HIRED</u></div>
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Here is a real sign of character. When he was running for Senate, the Dewhurst campaign sent out a mailer smearing and lying that Cruz represented a Chinese company stealing American blueprints. He even claimed he was incensed since it went to his father. <b>What did Cruz do?</b> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/127717/ted-cruzs-howitzer" target="_blank">He hired the man who created the mailer TO BE HIS presidential campaign architect</a>. A man who had no national political success to speak of at that time, but a reputation to be "the worst" of dirty politics, including driving some opponents to <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-adviser-admits-to-making-ad-that-allegedly-drove-missouri-pol-to-suicide/" target="_blank">suicide</a>. What a perfect fit for a conservative Christian that will have to shed the "mean hypocritical Christian" label if he runs in a general election! (I can't seem to find my sarcasm font - but you get the idea)</div>
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Christians are told to judge a tree by it's fruit. But instead of actually LOOKING at the fruit, they are buying everything the snake in the garden is telling them it is.</div>
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Hey Politijim, Rubio, Trump, (and everyone else) have worse sins! Why single out Cruz??<br />
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Because, it's the HYPOCRISY stupid! Who did Jesus curse? Those who CLAIMED they were perfect and were keeping the Law. Did you ever notice that God references 4 women in Jesus's lineage that ALL don't belong there by Old Testament Law? Ruth was a Moabite and shouldn't have been allowed in a temple much less the bloodline of God. Tamar seduced and slept with her Father in Law. Rahab was a prostitute. Bathsheba an exhibitionist who bathed nude so King David could see her.<br />
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You hate Trump because he had more than one wife? Then you had better hate King David and Ronald Reagan. Dislike Rubio because he was likely gay? Then Cruz can't be any better declaring that he's fine if his daughter is.<br />
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If you are a Christian, you are saved by GRACE and nothing else. There isn't a single Bible character God used who was the Billy Graham or Mother Theresa of their day. But he DOES look at the heart. Reagan hated abortion and even expanded it in California. But at least he could explain why he changed and didn't try and excuse his past decisions. He owned up to them. The only thing I've heard Cruz say he made a mistake was being arrogant on the Bush campaign. Sure he said he could do better on tithing, but then he LIED to the Christian reporter saying it only happened when he was "newly married man." The truth is that long after he was "newly married" his entire reported GIVING (much less his 10% tithing) <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/" target="_blank">was only 0.86%</a>. (Mitt Romney, who most evangelicals despised gave between 20% to 30% in any given year.)<br />
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And it's worse. Much, <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/03/video-ted-cruz-dirty-tricks-explained-with-evidence/" target="_blank">much worse</a>. Ted has been working with Mitch McConnell, including funding the NRSC - who he castigated and castigates as RINO's - from his own PAC since he got in office!</div>
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You’ll note Senator Ted Cruz <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/01/30/ugh-ugh-ugh-rand-paul-and-ted-cruz-tell-sean-hannity-well-stay-out-of-any-gop-primary-race-that-involves-incumbents/" target="_blank">never once campaigned</a> for a conservative challengers to incumbents in the 2014 mid-term campaign races – nor did he ever discuss the absence of a federal budget now the republicans were in control of both the House and the Senate.<br />
While publicly railing against what he called the DC Cartel, a group he was bound to assist from his prior pledge to them, he worked to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/politics/hamby-midterms-chamber-tea-party/" target="_blank">deliver their goals</a> nonetheless. </div>
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And NOW we find that a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-super-pac/index.html" target="_blank">shadowy SuperPAC</a>, with millions from unidentified donors is run by the former attorney for Mitch McConnell and attack ALL Cruz competitors. One of the big donors behind this? German born Peter Thiel founder of Paypal with DEEP CIA/FBI/DARPA ties. Thiel was one of <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2011/04/truth-about-facebook-cia-us-government.html" target="_blank">the first investors of Facebook</a> and as biggest shareholder in Palantir, is deeply enmeshed with government at all levels including the Obama White House. Anonymous uncovered efforts by Thiel's company to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#WikiLeaks_proposals_.282010.29" target="_blank">spread disinformation</a>" about journalist Greg Greenwald's work.<br />
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Up until two years ago, Cruz would wax poetic on the legal justification for everything from an anti-abortion Constitutional amendment to ...whatever. It was his calling card as an originalist, Constitutional lawyer who had argued cases before the Supreme Court. Just <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/sen.-ted-cruz-on-the-court--immigration-and-his-cockiness-477348931987" target="_blank">look how articulate</a> he is in discussing the ObamaCare, Gay Marriage and Judicial retention rulings and Constitutional Amendments. </div>
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But just like in the interview above he said "I'm not interested in trashing other Republicans," and now castigates his opponents daily - he also reverses course when it comes to his true eligibility. In October of 2013 he was asked if he can run for President since he was born in Canada and at that time had STILL not renounced his Canadian citizenship. His answer? "<b>I won't get into the legal arguments</b>."</div>
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I submit it's because he ALREADY KNOWS <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/01/about-that-lie-that-scotus-never.html" target="_blank">the truth</a>. </div>
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At LEAST do us the favor of obtaining DOCUMENTATION of his US Citizenship. Since 1919 the Federal Government has required a <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2016/02/ted-cruz-can-strengthen-immigration-now.html" target="_blank">Consular Record of Birth Abroad</a>, to be filed by the US citizen parent (with the child appearing before the US immigration official). So forget "natural born citizen" for a minute. Since Ted was born in Calgary, he could at least prove HE came here legally, and followed the rules that millions of others have had to claim their CITIZENSHIP honestly. That would be a good start.</div>
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The most conservative Governor in the nation, Maine's Paul LePage, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/bombshell-governor-paul-lepage-endorsed.html" target="_blank">Endorsed Donald Trump</a> <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/bombshell-governor-paul-lepage-endorsed.html" target="_blank">Because He's A Natural Born Citizen And Eligible</a>. Even though he was a US citizen, his daughters were born in Canada and researched the subject years ago to see if they could run for President.<br />
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Also, Harvard Law Professor, Former Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to Obama's campaign,<b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank">Einer Elhauge</a>, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/obama-advisor-harvard-law-professors-ny.html" target="_blank"><b>filed an amicus brief</b> </a>at the New York Supreme Court advising the court that <a href="http://po.st/BXspGl" target="_blank">Canadian-born Ted Cruz</a> is not eligible to be president under the <a href="http://wp.me/pPOcT-4w9" target="_blank"><i>Article II <u>natural born Citizen</u></i> requirement</a>. Elhauge also says it's not a political question. <br />
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<b>State chairwoman of the Illinois National Republican Assembly<a href="http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2015/03/02/cruz-controlled-on-teds-cpac-setback/" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2015/03/02/cruz-controlled-on-teds-cpac-setback/" target="_blank">claims Cruz implied that he knew he was NOT a natural born citizen </a>when he was running for Senate.<b> </b><br />
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<i>“I said to him — on my bucket list,
one day I hope to work for the first Latino president of the United
States in Washington, D.C. — so I looked right at him and I said, ‘I
believe someday you might be that guy.’ He looked back at me and he
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<b>CRUZ ALSO <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams300.htm" target="_blank">SAID </a></b><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams300.htm" target="_blank">in an interview with the GOP TEXAS STATE COMMITTEE MEMBER</a> that Barack Obama was NOT a Natural Born Citizen and that the Constitutional definition of NBC was <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">“Two citizen parents and born on the soil.”</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The biggest lie</b> is that there is no Supreme <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Court ruling<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, or definition of "natural born citizen." <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">despite </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>actually <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">being </span>settled in numerous SCOTUS cases and other <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">writings of the Founders</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is your cheat sheet to stopping a potential fu<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">ture </span>foreign takeove<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">r of the most powerful office in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Jay wrote:</span></div>
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<i>Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen</i>.</div>
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See a transcription of Jay’s letter to Washington at this <a href="http://www.kerchner.com/images/protectourliberty/johnjay1787lettertogeorgewashington.jpg" target="_blank">link</a>.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No Person except a natural born Citizen, <b>or a Citizen of the United States, <u>at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution</u>, </b>shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NOTICE there is an exemption for mere “citizens” alive at the time of the adoption of the Constitution – but a “natural born” citizen <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">is something else</span>. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">If it <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">only meant naturalized citizen, then WHY WAS IT CHANGED?</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Historian and Founder David Ramsey explicitly addressed this in his <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/33676461/Founder-and-Historian-David-Ramsay-Defined-Natural-Born-Citizenship-in-1789-by-Atty-Mario-Apuzzo">writings in 1789</a>:</span></div>
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In his 1789 article, Ramsay first explained who the “original citizens” were and then defined the “natural born citizens” as the children born in the country to citizen parents. He said concerning the children born after the declaration of independence, “[c]itizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken part in the late revolution; butt his is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens….” Id.at 6. He added that “citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the declaration of independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring….” Id. at 7.He continued that citizenship “as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776….” Id. at 6.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even GLOBALIST LIBERALS, wrote in the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/297154489/Amending-the-Natural-Born-Citizen-Requirement-Globalization-as-t">Kent-Chicago Law Review in 2005</a> argued that the Constitution needed to be AMENDED to do away with the fact foreign born children aren’t “natural born citizens.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">the natural born citizen provision is controversial because it prevents over 12.8 million Americans from being eligible for the presidency.</span></i></div>
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There is the reality that Republicans could go through the entire primary process, only to have their nominee thrown out, if not substantially delayed (unable to start a campaign for the general election in time). <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alan-grayson-ted-cruz-birther" target="_blank">Rep. Alan Grayson (FL) will also file lawsuit if @TedCruz nominated by GOP</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The immigration of Act of 1790 Mark L<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">evin cites </span>was REPEALED</b>, because it erroneously legitimized foreign born kids to US parents (plural) as NBC. (Mark Levin the supposed "expert" claimed it was still in effect by the way.) It specifically corrected this in the Act of 1795 and we have the <a href="https://libertyborn.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/new-evidence-1790-naturalization-act/">House Committee notes</a> explicitly explaining that it was because of this very issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">T</span>he Supreme Court DID explicitly address the issue of NBC </b>in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 (1875) (“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were <br />
natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A </span>second SCOTUS case</b> (U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 665 (1898)), citied Minor and quoting without criticism its common law definition of a natural born citizen. This means in a SECOND case they didn't argue against the earlier finding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are actually many many other acts, laws, and documentations <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">clearly show </span>Rubio/Cruz/Jindal <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">ineligible</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html#Supreme%20Court"><b>Supreme Court Cases that Cite “Natural Born Citizen” as One Born on U.S. Soil to Citizen Parents</b></a><b> -</b></span></div>
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The Supreme Court Ruling in <a href="http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17/177/1555913/" target="_blank">Wong vs Ark</a> says this:<br />
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"<u>Citizenship by naturalization can only be acquired </u><strong><span>*180</span></strong>
by naturalization under the authority and in the forms of law. <u>But
citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the
circumstances defined in the constitution</u>. Every person born <b>in </b>the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a
citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. <u><b>A person
born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a
citizen by being naturalized</b></u>, </blockquote>
Being "naturalized" is different from being a native citizen.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now to REALLY blow your mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been numerous attempts since 1975 to change this by Congressional LAW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since 2003, there have been 8 attempts alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">IF EVERYONE ALREADY “KNEW” NBC was merely naturalized citizens, why have there been people trying to change it for the past 40 years? <span style="color: black;">(</span></span></b><a href="http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html#Attempts%20to%20Redefine%20or%20Amend%20Article%20II"><b>Attempts to Redefine or Amend Article II “Natural Born Citizen” Clause of the United States Constitution</b></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b>)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ironically we have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">testimony of a famous foreign-born leader</b> whose mother was American, and his father foreign. He was granted honorary citizenship and was asked by reporters if he would run for President of the United States. He said, “I am, as you know, half American by blood, and the story of my association with that mighty and benevolent nation goes back nearly ninety years to the day of my father's marriage. There are various little difficulties in the way. However, I have been treated so splendidly in the United States that I should be disposed, if you can amend the Constitution, seriously to consider the matter."</span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLyKAsOrjps/VvQnM_PnJEI/AAAAAAAAcO8/lbu4byIe-UwNKapsm0fiO_mxIFnNLgorw/s1600/Sen.-Mazie-Hirono-360x450.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLyKAsOrjps/VvQnM_PnJEI/AAAAAAAAcO8/lbu4byIe-UwNKapsm0fiO_mxIFnNLgorw/s200/Sen.-Mazie-Hirono-360x450.jpg" width="160" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You know him as, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winston Churchill</b>.</span><br />
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Hawaiian US Senator Mazie Hirono was born to a US citizen mother and a
foreign father in a foreign land. Her mother brought her to the US when
she was seven years old. <a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2016/03/24/if-sen-mazie-hirono-is-a-naturalized-citizen-how-is-ted-cruz-natural-born/" target="_blank">She defines herself as an immigrant is a "naturalized citizen" according to her biography</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One last note. WHY is there an exemption for foreign born citizens in Article II "alive at the ratification" of the Constitution if they too would automatically be natural born citizens? The Founders were some of the most highly educated men in the WORLD as well as our country. They didn't use words casually. So merely consider that this WAS important to them and for a reason. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otherwise, Iranian Born, Chief of Staff and Communist Valarie Jarrett – is also eligible since BOTH of her parents were Americans.</span><br />
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<u><b>Ted Cruz Lies on His Website</b></u><br />
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Ted Cruz's website boldly lies "NO CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR BELIEVES CRUZ TO BE INELIGIBLE FOR PRESIDENT.<u>"</u><br />
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<b>However
scholarship papers and Notable Officials to the contrary are legion
including Ted Cruz's own Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe</b>. A few include:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Catholic Law University Review <b><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2444766" target="_blank">PDF</a></b> (Also explains why other scholars get it wrong)<br />
(Layman Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html" target="_blank">article</a> by same Delaware Law School professor/historian)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2016/02/trump_is_right_ted_cruz_is_not_eligible_to_be_president.html" target="_blank">University of Chicago Professor Posner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/297154489/Amending-the-Natural-Born-Citizen-Requirement-Globalization-as-t" target="_blank">Chicago Kent Law Review</a> (from a Leftist, Globalist, New World Order perspective)</li>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/08/former-michigan-governor-raises-questions-about-cruzs-eligibility-video" target="_blank">Governor of Michigan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://citizenwells.com/2016/01/17/ted-cruz-harvard-law-professor-cruz-not-eligible-born-in-canada-not-natural-born-citizen-laurence-h-tribe-also-obama-professor-i-cannot-support-ted-cruz-and-disregard-for-us-constitution-many-ex/" target="_blank">Michigan Law Review</a></li>
<li>Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration and Policy, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007052924/http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/FirstImpressions/107-FI/chin.pdf" target="_blank">University of Arizona</a> </li>
<li>Maine Governor Paul LePage (<a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/bombshell-governor-paul-lepage-endorsed.html" target="_blank">Daughters born in Canada and researched issue years ago</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huckabee-santorum-join-gop-voices-in-questioning-cruzs-citizenship/" target="_blank">Governor Huckabee and Senator Santorum</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/11/through-ted-cruz-constitutional-looking-glass/zvKE6qpF31q2RsvPO9nGoK/story.html" target="_blank">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lee-is-ted-cruz-eligible-to-be-president-20160110-story.html" target="_blank">Fordham Law Professor</a></li>
<li>Former <a href="http://www.newsday.com/opinion/ted-cruz-ineligible-to-be-president-according-to-history-1.11466068" target="_blank">Chief Judge of the State of New York</a> and an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Touro Law School </li>
<li><a href="http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-winston-churchill-was-not-even.html" target="_blank">Winston Churchill</a> (In EXACT situation as Cruz with US mother, and foreign birth & father)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33676461/Founder-and-Historian-David-Ramsay-Defined-Natural-Born-Citizenship-in-1789-by-Atty-Mario-Apuzzo" target="_blank">Founder/Historian David Ramsey 1789 Constitutional Explanation of "Citizenship"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://libertyborn.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/new-evidence-1790-naturalization-act/" target="_blank">1795 Congressional Notes</a> (explaining repeal of 1790 "natural born" Act) <b><a href="http://natural-borncitizens.com/nbcfiles/nbc_McElwee.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a></b></li>
<li><a href="https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/20/trump-is-right-about-cruzs-presidential" target="_blank">Libertarian REASON magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/2016/01/claims-that-sen-cruz-is-not-natural-born-need-to-be-taken-seriouslyrob-natelson.html" target="_blank">Independence Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/12/debating-whether-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen/" target="_blank">Case Western Law Professor</a> (changed mind to now doubt earlier position Cruz eligible) </li>
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<b> </b>Harvard Law Professor, Former Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to Obama's campaign,<b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank"> </a></b><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10234/Elhauge" target="_blank">Einer Elhauge</a>, <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2016/03/obama-advisor-harvard-law-professors-ny.html" target="_blank"><b>filed an amicus brief</b> </a>at the New York Supreme Court advising the court that <a href="http://po.st/BXspGl" target="_blank">Canadian-born Ted Cruz</a> is not eligible to be president under the <a href="http://wp.me/pPOcT-4w9" target="_blank"><i>Article II <u>natural born Citizen</u></i> requirement</a>. Elhauge also says it's not a political question but a Constitutional one.</div>
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<b>*****UPDATE*****</b><br />
There is also now <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/proof-that-ted-cruz-did-not-become-a-us-citizen-at-birth" target="_blank">serious legal questions</a> as to whether Cruz's mother ever filed a US Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CBRA) to lay claim to Ted's US citizenship right. Canada did not allow dual citizenship until 1977 (seven years after Cruz was born in Canada) and without such a document, Cruz would ONLY have been born a Canadian citizen. If so, since he didn't renounce his Canadian citizenship until 2 years ago, he would actually be ineligible to be US Senator also.<br />
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Ted Cruz has now demonstrated that no matter HOW conservative and honorable a candidate starts out to be, they will eventually be corrupted by power.<br />
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I used to remember Texas Senate-hopeful Ted telling tales of how much he loved America. How he wanted America to be unified. How much he loved Reagan. With his lack of charisma and Harvard aloofness, it humanized him a bit. It also seemed sincere. <br />
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As an transplanted Southerner, there is a wicked temptation to want to trash everything and everybody in New York or California. Which is strange because most of those Southerners CLAIM to be Christian and are exhorted to embrace not only reason, but also humility, compassion and love. You'd never catch Ronald Regan trashing Raleigh or Richmond. Or Trump trashing Texas. <br />
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I have to admit - I saw it coming about 3 years ago when, on MEET THE PRESS (a sure telegraph of how Democrats are going to attack him) he claimed that "he won't get into legal arguments" when asked about his citizenship and Presidential eligibility. I guess that whole expertise in constitutional law is only useful when you need material for a filibuster. God forbid you should use your education and expertise to educate the public. I <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2013/08/ted-cruz-could-be-next-washington.html" target="_blank">wrote about it</a> at the time (2013) pleading for him to be more like George Washington than a Washington politician. Apparently Ted doesn't read Politijim. Or isn't - in reality - a <u>constitutional</u> conservative.<br />
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I was told that in private fund raisers - here in Texas - his naturalized citizen father was telling supporters that their lawyers told them "there is nothing to" this whole birther issue. Since then, it's been revealed Ted also lied about loans from Goldman Sachs (where his wife worked), all the while attacking them as crony capitalists. The bright side is at least it isn't a forged birth certificate I guess.<br />
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Apparently the ideological co-opting that Trent Lott crowed about is inevitable. Even for born again, God-fearing, constitutionally grounded Senators from Texas.<br />
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Additionally, in the past week Cruz has adopted Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's political tactics. During the FOX BUSINESS debate he was asked about his eligibility to be President. He sarcastically responded, "I’m glad we’re focusing on the important topics of the evening."<br />
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<b>Yes, Ted. Upholding the Constitution is important.</b> Even if it interferes with your personal ambition.<br />
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In that one response, Ted Cruz weakened the United States of America.<br />
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It proved his love of the constitution as nothing more than a prop to be used to become President. Well - at least we have no illusions that he isn't as principled as he advertised. God forbid he should be honest with the public and simply explain his legal rational.<br />
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Worse, when he suddenly stated that Trump wouldn't qualify because Donald's MOTHER wasn't born on US soil - he showed his true colors. He lied. NO WHERE is a definition of 'natural born citizen' anything other than a US soil born child to two US citizen's, regardless of where those parents are born. With that statement he proved that either he is completely ignorant of the real constitutional arguments - or he is a liar. There isn't any other explanation. Neither are comforting.<br />
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He also adopted the "Rules for Radicals" tactics (#5 and #13 if you don't have your Luciferian dedicated copy handy) of ridiculing your opponents argument, avoiding any substantive and meaningful discussion. Rules for Radicals calls it INTENTIONALLY irrational. <br />
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Apparently Ted is fine with any Iranian, Russian or Saudi citizens with at least one citizen parent becoming President of the United States. Whether or not forged birth certificates are acceptable to Ted is unclear.<br />
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Why the hell Trump didn't ask Cruz why the first draft of the constitution was changed from merely a "citizen" being eligible to be President (similar to what is allowable for Congress) to a "natural born citizen" at the request of John Jay - the first Supreme Court Chief Justice - to George Washington...I'll never know. I hope someone asks it in the final debate to see the extent of Mr. Cruz as yet unknown constitutional expertise.<br />
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But Donald Trump proved to me one thing. Even at the enormous political risk of being called "a birther", he raised the question. And he's so far ahead in the polls he didn't need to. He deftly placed the danger on that of the Democrats picking up the legal attack and running with it. And they not only WILL - they have said they will immediately challenge the election. None the less. Donald has been true to the subject since question Barack's forgeries and didn't lay down when given an opportunity to do so.<br />
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Trump is now more of a Constitutionalist than Ted Cruz. And that shocks me.<br />
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It also makes me regret buying into the notion that Cruz was truly driven by principal over politics and substance over self-ambition. He has done some great things in the Senate. He certainly has fought hard against much of the RINO agenda. But perhaps the last chance to finally stop the horrendous hoax perpetrated on America by the Muslim at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, may be lost forever.<br />
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Yes, he is a Muslim. And worse, the REAL President is Iranian born Valarie Jarrett, who now has given Iran escape from sanctions, but permission to continue their nuclear development while flooding the market with cheap, terrorist financing oil. As someone in the oil industry, the millions of jobs lost with the crash in oil is very much due to Iran's oil coming online. I had Europeans tell me 2 years ago that they had assurances Iran would be open for ALL WESTERN BUSINESS. Even I didn't think it was possible.<br />
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But look what having a Kenyan born President will do for you. I'm sure there will still be some who will warn "why should we worry about Kenya!? They couldn't do anything." Yeah. Right.<br />
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Don't think for a minute that every well financed enemy of the US isn't now grooming some Manchurian Candidate to get their feet wet in American politics.<br />
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Barry Soreto has been bad. But Ted just opened the door wide for the very thing that John Jay feared. An open invitation for foreign powers to find a way to perpetually control the White House. And America.<br />
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Call me conspiratorial or fringe if you want. You already did that when you promised me that the government would never lie about unemployment or satellite data, or that the government could force children to be taken from their families and poisoned against their will. It happens every day across this country. Worse, you are now forced not only to subsidize liberal's healthcare, you are now at risk of jail if you don't openly support their lifestyle. Sure. Go ahead and convince yourself that I'm the kook it in this equation if helps you sleep at night.<br />
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Although it his highly unlikely for Cruz to EVER become President, (his unfavorable ratings surpass his favorables among most Americans and the mainstream media will Sarah-Palinize the undecideds the day he is nominated), he has left me disillusioned that there will ever be a politician who will actually do what it is right, regardless of the personal cost.<br />
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But no. I still don't buy that he is a closet Mitch McConnell. Yet.<br />
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George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention and had the qualifications for President changed SPECIFICALLY to disallow foreign born citizens from taking over the powerful reigns of our country in the position of Chief Executive. It would seem Ted is ok with undermining our heritage as well as our country.<br />
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Until now I didn't think the Goldman Sachs connection could possibly have merit. But if a strict "constitutional conservative" no longer finds questions about the constitution "important," what's a little favoritism among cronyists who employ your wife?<br />
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For my fellow conservatives who hate Trump (I get it. I really do.) Or who feel that Cruz is the only "true" conservative in the race - I would ask you what else you would sell out to get your "guy" elected.<br />
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And if, at the end of the day, if Cruz is elected, but faces secret CAIR backed Mohammad Magnetic Personality in 2020 who has the media on his side and wins the White House....was it really worth it?<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-73038840680486626712014-11-27T08:39:00.001-08:002014-11-27T08:39:02.995-08:00Seriously? You Expect Me To Be Thankful For This?<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--Gdnuyflq00/VHdToWjbQtI/AAAAAAAAWT0/qF9dUIg3oTE/s1600-h/Obama-Garden-Delights-Scandals6.jpg"><font size="3"><img title="Obama-Garden-Delights-Scandals" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Obama-Garden-Delights-Scandals" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_NqBy_Eggfc/VHdTpJmshfI/AAAAAAAAWT8/WIe2kpirmn8/Obama-Garden-Delights-Scandals_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="475" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="3">As I write this, I’m unable to be with my family today, have numerous personal struggles, and have friends who are struggling to eat – much less walk in the fullness of their calling and careers.</font></p> <p><font size="3">On the national front, we see not only record poverty and unemployment, but - perhaps far worse - a poverty of character and moral compass that we as a nation used to be able to fall back on in crisis's of past.  A majority in our nation are enslaved by ignorance through a lying media and they continue to empower mostly spineless, weak and/or corrupt narcissists to spend our money and enslave all of us even further in more ways than we can imagine.  Communist owned Hong Kong is more economically free and former Soviet satellite </font><a href="http://www.heritage.org/index/country/estonia" target="_blank"><font size="3">Estonia</font></a><font size="3"> may actually be a more free democracy than ours.</font></p> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Seriously?  You expect me to thankful for this?</font></strong></p> <p><font size="3">To the atheist or agnostic, (or self-absorbed) all that I can offer is that thankfulness is a key ingredient to happiness.  Researchers have </font><a href="http://gratitudepower.net/science.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3">proven</font></a><font size="3"> that gratitude improves emotional and physical health, and it can strengthen relationships and communities.  Of course this required the subjects to FOCUS on what they grateful for as opposed to bitching and moaning about every problem they faced.  And if you believe that there is no purpose to your life other than a your carbon dioxide enrichment of our atmosphere – good luck with that.</font></p> <p><font size="3">However, the unfortunate thing is that without the acknowledgement of a Designer of your life you are akin to the kid who can only lick the cake batter spatula (after all your siblings and the family dog) as compared to feasting on the double fudge chocolate confection of REAL thankfulness to God that we Christians have.  Or are supposed to have despite crap hurricane that seems to never stop.</font></p> <p><font size="3">And for those that don’t just suspect or mentally suppose the existence of a Higher Power, but truly LEAN ON and TRUST Him, there is a much richer understanding and power available to you.</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 <strong>in everything give thanks</strong>; <u>for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you</u>.</font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3">1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV)</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">Interestingly enough, the Apostle Paul wrote this amidst similar political upheaval.  Despite enormous paganism and the worship of thousands of Gods throughout the land, Christians were – at best – thought of as annoying cult of weirdo’s (not that much different from today, right?) and – at worst – were targeted for death by Jews who felt they were a threat to Judaism.  Remember Paul himself had been a Christian killer not too long before this.   And Rome’s new emperor, Claudius, had just succeeded Caligula who was assassinated by Senators and his own Praetorian Guard.  You think Obama’s bad?  Here is the </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula#Scandals" target="_blank"><font size="3">Wikipedia short description</font></a><font size="3"> of Caligula:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">An insane emperor who was self-absorbed, angry, killed on a whim, and indulged in too much spending and sex. He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it, killing for mere amusement, deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation, and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship. Once, at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">The point is, the “will of God” of being THANKFUL for those of us who believe in God isn’t subject to the success of our political freedom or prospects.  Which is very hard sometimes for us to grasp.</font></p> <p><font size="3">When I first heard this scripture in my 20’s after becoming a Christian, I thought “So should I be thankful if I get in a car accident and loose my arm?”</font></p> <p><font size="3">Many well intentioned Christian denominations have made it even harder by a false teaching that God inflicts us with these problems to make us stronger or to teach us “character.”</font></p> <p><font size="3">Funny, I can’t remember a SINGLE incident where a paralytic approached Jesus to be healed and Christ said, “<em>You haven’t learned humility quite well enough yet.  Come back in two years after you’re REALLY grateful that you’re even alive</em>.”</font></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>No!</strong>  Instead Jesus healed </font><a href="http://stronginfaith.org/article.php?page=9" target="_blank"><font size="3">EVERYONE</font></a><font size="3"> who came to Him.  And He went further telling us to ASK ANYTHING we wanted from Him.  And He reasoned that God gives GOOD things, not evil things when we ask:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">…what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!</font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3">Matthew 7:9-11</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">It is difficult for even Christians to fathom (let alone non-Believers), but GOD is “Love” as the bible states, and He is also an uncompromising Judge for perfection in thought as well as actions.  But as the reference from Matthew explains – we are to identify with God as “Daddy” first and foremost above His identity as the Supreme Ruler of the Universe who could snuff out our life with a mere thought.  </font></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>This shouldn’t be so foreign to us</strong>.  We ALL carry multiple labels and perceptions that differ from our family, our friends and those that work with us.  The child of a special operations Army Ranger RUNS to his father, even if there was a rifle in his hand, because that child knows that their relationship is in the bounds of “Daddy” and not “Sniper.”  That child doesn’t give a second thought to a misuse of his daddy’s power or intention against those who are enemies.  And it doesn’t make his father any less of a badass to Islamic terrorists who desire to do unspeakable things to that soldier's son.  (Just like the devil by the way.)</font></p> <p><font size="3">Go look it up.  JESUS always called God “Abba” (which means “Daddy”) except for the one instance where He took upon Himself all of our sin and condemnation and judgment on the cross.  </font></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>Yes, there will be a day of judgment.  But Jesus hasn’t come back to do that yet.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="3">And when we TRULY know God as Jesus did, (as Daddy) not only do we gain the gift acceptance, love and approval (bought for us by the perfection and blood of His ONLY truly “genetic” Son Jesus), we also now place ourselves in a position to RECEIVE from God what we ask and what we need.   <strong>TALK ABOUT A REASON FOR BEING THANKFUL!</strong></font></p> <p><font size="3">(Did you get that?  Not only does the most powerful Being in the Universe SEE YOU like His perfect Son with NO sin, you can ask HIM FOR STUFF and He’ll HEAR YOU!)</font></p> <p><font size="3">Doesn’t the </font><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13:58" target="_blank"><font size="3">scripture</font></a><font size="3"> tell us in one town, Jesus could not heal many because they simply couldn’t BELIEVE that He could or would?  Didn’t the “good” son in the </font><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32" target="_blank"><font size="3">parable of the prodigal</font></a><font size="3"> never get a pig roast and party from the father simply because he never asked – or thought he could?</font></p> <p><font size="3">BELIEVING that God is good EMPOWERS you to receive from Him!</font></p> <p><font size="3">The first thing we should be grateful for is that God loves us each, individually as BELOVED children – regardless of how “good” we are since it is the blood of His Son that makes us righteous in the Father’s eyes.</font></p> <p><font size="3">And the second thing we should be grateful is that GOD IS WILLING to change our economy, our political and tax enslavement for us and our children.  HE said to ask him for “good things.”  Asking for a rebirth of FINANCIAL and POLITICAL FREEDOM qualifies, just as it did for His people enslaved in Egypt.</font></p> <p><font size="3"><strong>But it requires FAITH</strong>.  And here is the secret: <strong>THANKFULNESS that God will grant us what we ask.  </strong>(</font><font size="3">Because we know it is already granted to us by our Father – even before we ask for it!)</font></p> <p><font size="3">When talking about Wisdom, James says:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. <sup>6 </sup>But <strong><font color="#ff0000">let him ask in faith, with no doubting</font></strong>, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. <sup>7 </sup>For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; <sup>8 </sup><i>he is</i> a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.</font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3">James 1:5 NKJV</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">The disciples were SHOCKED when Jesus merely spoke death to a fig tree and a day later it shriveled up.  He explained:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].</font> </p> <p><font size="3">Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.</font> </p> <p><font size="3">For this reason I am telling you, <strong>whatever you ask for in prayer</strong>, <strong><font color="#ff0000"><u>believe (trust and be confident) that it is</u> <u>granted</u> to you</font></strong>, and you will [get it].</font> </p> <p align="right"><font size="3">Mark 11:22-25 AMP</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">Notice Jesus said “GRANTED” as in PAST TENSE.  So our prayers for ourselves and our country should be in the EXPECTANCY that He is NOT done with us yet (</font><a href="http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2013/10/10/george-washingtons-vision/" target="_blank"><font size="3">as George Washington foresaw</font></a><font size="3">) and that He WANTS us to prosper as a Godly nation again.</font></p> <p><font size="3">If we ever needed anything lifted from the “dead” the state of our nation is it.  How did Jesus raise Lazarus? <strong><font color="#ff0000">HE THANKED GOD THAT HE WOULD DO SO</font>.</strong></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, <strong><u>I thank You that You have heard Me.</u></strong></font> </p> <p><font size="3"><sup>42 </sup>Yes, I know You always hear <i>and</i> listen to Me, but I have said this on account of <i>and</i> for the benefit of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You did send Me [that You have made Me Your Messenger].</font> </p> <p><font size="3"><sup>43 </sup>When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!</font> </p> <p><font size="3"><sup>44 </sup>And out walked the man who had been dead, his hands and feet wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] napkin bound around his face. Jesus said to them, Free him of the burial wrappings and let him go.</font> </p> <p align="right"><font size="3">John 11:41-44 AMP</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3"><font color="#0000ff">Do we really think that complaining to each other – or God - about how bad Obama, the abortionists, the big bank cronies or race baiters are will change a single one of them?</font>  We are fools if we think so because NO WHERE did Jesus or the disciples say, “<em>If thou bitchest loud enough I will reenact the face melting scene of Raiders of the Lost of Ark upon those that violate the Constitution and blaspheme My Name.</em>”</font></p> <p><font size="3">Even the Old Testament – which required “works” instead of faith (as is to those of us under the New Testament privilege of Jesus’ blood) said:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3">if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and <strong><u>pray and seek My face</u></strong>, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. <br />2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">The word “seek” (<em>baqash</em>) carries with it a demand, to require something.  In this case it is to get God’s attention.  IF you know Your Daddy is predisposed to your wellbeing and requests, especially those that are His Will, we now pray (as we read earlier) EXPECTING that we already have it.  The Apostle John put it this way:</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="3">Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.</font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3">1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV)</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3">So what we are THANKING God for is not just the amazing grace and mercy He has shown us in not already allowing America to turn into Islamabad, but in EXPECTATION that He loves us, He has a covenant with us as a country, and that OUR BELIEF in His Goodness and in His Promise will be seen to glorify Him.</font></p> <p><font size="3">It’s NOT in our control but His.  But our FAITH that He will intervene essentially is “Thanksgiving in advance” for what we ask.</font></p> <p><font size="3">So yeah.  HAPPY Thanksgiving.</font></p> <p><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="3">THANK YOU Lord that You are merciful and gracious to us individually, and as a country.  </font></strong></p> <p><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="3">Thank you that you DO still have a mighty work for America in demonstrating true FREEDOM with Your righteousness to the world, and positioning us again to be a FORCE FOR GOOD.  </font></strong></p> <p><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="3">THANK YOU for exposing and removing the pernicious political playmakers who have been subversively undermining our Constitution, our banking system, our economy and our culture and please Lord RELEASE Your Holy Spirit across this nation and give us pride once again in a nation UNDER GOD and Indivisible for You.</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="3">Amen.</font></strong> </p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3">Jesus gave thanks BEFORE He multiplied the loaves and fishes for the 5,000.</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-5759182110458015082014-11-15T08:31:00.001-08:002014-11-15T08:31:01.665-08:00Why Conservative Christians Sound Like Islamic Westboro Baptists to Non-Belivers<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-u5qhXSafjeo/VGd_vwDcx-I/AAAAAAAAWRM/3063vCnAaZ0/s1600-h/IslamicChristians%25255B112%25255D.jpg"><img title="IslamicChristians" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="IslamicChristians" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Y4aReBtm5dg/VGd_wjnpj_I/AAAAAAAAWRU/SX8JniLF7hc/IslamicChristians_thumb%25255B110%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="507" height="284" /></a></p> <p>It’s about time we had a talk about how conservative Christians are not only screwing up conservative politics but the public image of Christianity.</p> <p>For some reason in the past 2 weeks I’ve been drawn into multiple blogger battles with “Christian conservatives” on the issue of gay marriage, Joel Osteen, Mormonism and a church that is serving beer at church.  As anyone who has taken a nanosecond to check out my blog, Twitter or Facebook posts – I am a Jesus Freak, albeit a bit of an unconventional and non-“religious” one.  I am fiercely devoted to God but like the friends who lowered their sick buddy through the roof to bypass the line outside, I am largely uninhibited by convention.</p> <p>So when I pointed out that Jesus’ FIRST demonstration of God’s power was creating alcohol at a religious event – you would have thought I denied the virgin birth or something.  These dear brothers and sisters in the Lord declared a fundamentalist Christian jihad against PolitiJim.</p> <p>I don’t get shocked by much any more, but the overwhelming hateful tone by Christians responding to these articles just …. well … shocked me.  I’d estimate that well over 75% of the posts were condemning, hateful, scorning and mocking.  The disdain for homosexuals wasn’t much different from that I’ve heard against members of ISIS.  One normally intelligent blogger whom I follow regularly felt that somehow by repeating the word “demonic” about Mormonism he was actually “loving” Mormons so that they knew the errors of their ways.</p> <p>You know what I’m talking about.  There is almost a celebratory glee in demeaning Democrats and frosting it with sarcastic and even vicious retorts.  “They’ll know we are Christians by our love” is now “They’ll know we are conservatives by our shove.”</p> <p>Now those who’ve followed me for the past few years know that I enjoy a good row, and sometime have gotten a little to happy with biting sarcasm and ridicule of “the other side.”  Even some on <a href="www.politijim.com/2012/03/politijim-apology-to-santorum.html" target="_blank">OUR side</a>.  One reason I quit doing regular political posts was the realization that it actually wasn’t DOING anything other than allowing to me blow off steam on whatever was riling me at the moment.  By lampooning and ridiculing the left, I was shocked to find they weren’t turning to our side in droves  Also I began to realize (as our Founders did) that prayer was also an effective as a weapon especially in unity.  I didn’t seem myself unifying anyone other than my fellow frustrated patriots.</p> <p>Charisma News ran an article this week that Joel Osteen thought Obama was a Christian.  Never mind that the interview was <strong>TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO</strong> when Barry/Barack was running for reelection and finally made an appearance at the Washington DC Prayer Breakfast.   Answering the question on air to Wolf Blitzer, Osteen said that he heard Barry/Barack confess that Jesus was his Lord and talked in terms of redemption and other “Christian” understanding.</p> <p>Like Billy Graham, Osteen has chosen to remain totally non-political in order to have access to people in power.   The Bible only lays out one criteria to become a Christian and it’s found in the book of Romans Chapter 10.  </p> <blockquote> <p>…<em>if you confess with your mouth</em>, "Jesus is Lord," <em>and believe in your heart</em> that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved…</p> </blockquote> <p>Since NO ONE (and that includes you Twitter Christians) knows <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A11&version=AMP" target="_blank">what people REALLY believe inside themselves accept God</a>, someone confess Christ publically can’t be automatically dismissed.  Especially if your nature borders on a 1 Corinthians personality that “believes the best of all people” just like Jesus does.  (Funny how Osteen doesn’t attack his critics, is the biggest donor to his own church while not taking a penny from it – even for travel and yet HE is the one who is supposedly not a Christian while the critics don’t exhibit a rind shaving of the fruit of the Spirit.)</p> <p>I have no idea if my pastor (yes, I go to Lakewood) believes that any more.  The comments on this “Christian” website claimed that not only was he not a Christian or a Man of God for not believing Obama was a Muslim, most quoted scriptures that he would burn in hell and would be judged in the last days.</p> <p><img style="float: right; margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; display: inline" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0708/360_hillary_graham_0806.jpg" width="203" align="right" height="135" />Really?  At that time less than 20% of all Americans believed Obama was a Muslim.  And moreover – Joel Osteen’s business is in proclaiming the “good news” of Jesus Christ, not being the final judge of whether people are deceptive or lying about whether they are or not.  You may recall Billy Graham never got criticized for not criticizing Carter and hung out with Hillary without an all out attack by the moral majority.</p> <p>Since when did it become acceptable to falsely accuse a pastor who ONLY talks about Jesus as the way to live life AND has directly been responsible for over 1 million documented salvations through his Night of Hope stadium events over the past few years?  That’s actually a better record than Billy!</p> <p>The bottom line is that these ferocious Facebook Pharisees want a non-stop marathon of the condemnation of SIN.   No grace.  No hope.  No love.  (You know, the entire personification of Jesus.)  They want the Revelation version of judgmental Jesus despite the fact that when Jesus read in the synagogue (Luke 4) the following:</p> <blockquote> <p>18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. </p> </blockquote> <p>AND LEFT OUT</p> <blockquote> <p><b>and the day of vengeance of our God; </b></p> </blockquote> <p>They want fire and brimstone Jesus despite the fact that they couldn’t possible escape God’s judgments for THEIR myriad of sins beginning with taking their Lord’s name in vain all the way to even THINKING murder of another (which Jesus says is the equivalent to actually DOING IT).</p> <p><strong><font size="3">What fascinated me about this Charisma article, is that at one point a MUSLIM commented on how these Christians and Muslims were not much different, and he invited them to read more of the Quran.</font></strong></p> <p>And you know what?  HE WAS RIGHT!</p> <p>Contemporary conservative Christians seem to have this notion that “righteousness” comes from the proper conservative political beliefs and not committing homosexuality or voting for Democrats.</p> <p>And their entire message to the world is comprised of either “you’re bad and we’re not” or “if you quit sinning you won’t go to hell.”</p> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000" size="3">It is the exact same spirit of Islam and Westboro Baptist Church.</font></strong></p> <p>No wonder the world is confused about Christianity.  And why liberals distrust conservatives.   Whey the hell would they want to become a bitter, judgmental, self-righteous political snob like you?</p> <p>Ever wonder why all the SINNERS wanted to hang out with Jesus?  I did.  It confounded me that the “religious” who actually were trying to obey the 10 Commandments couldn’t STAND Jesus, but the gluttons, drunkards and sinners not only flocked to him but kept inviting Him to their parties!</p> <p>Do you know of any analy retentive religious a**hole YOU would want to invite to your July 4th BBQ?  (Hint: If you don’t know what I’m talking about, this is likely how others see you.)</p> <p><strong>It is the same tone and action of the men </strong>who found a married woman sleeping with another man and decided that they would “take action” to purge their town of such atrocity.</p> <p>But then a bearded man (whom I guess most of these conservatives today would call a liberal today), stood in between the stone wielding posse and the naked humiliated woman.  And what’s ironic is that he didn’t even point out the hypocrisy of these men in ONLY bringing out the woman to stone and not the man they caught her in bed with.  He didn’t start yelling at them or even get angry.  He merely wrote in the sand and challenge the first “perfect” person to throw the first stone.  They left.</p> <p>And even then, he didn’t turn to the woman and say, “what you did was bad, bad, bad.  And if you don’t REPENT you will burn in the eternal fires of hell!”</p> <p><strong>Instead He let her off SCOT-FREE</strong>.  No groveling, no “repentance,” not even a warning.  Just, “<strong>I don’t condemn you either</strong>.  Go and sin no more.”</p> <p>What’s interesting is that the “sin no more” is actually in what is called present, imperative tense.  That means he did NOT say “don’t ever sin again” or even “stop sinning.”  It is more like, “you are not in sin from here on out.”</p> <p>AND HE FIRST TOLD HER that he did NOT condemn her.  EVEN BEFORE she could have possibly said anything remorseful – let alone “confess” her sin.  We don’t even have a record of her REPENTING!!  [<em><font color="#666666">And “repent” by the way </font></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanoia_%28theology%29" target="_blank"><em><font color="#666666">does NOT mean to confess your sin and determine that you won’t do bad any more</font></em></a><em><font color="#666666">.  The word in the Greek is “metanoia,” which is CHANGE (meta) your MIND (noia). So Jesus and John the Baptist were literally saying “Change the way you think” not asking for some kind of admission of all their past sins.</font></em>]</p> <p>Which most Christians – especially conservative ones – seem to overlook.  Our “righteousness” has nothing to do with our actions but our belief.  The 10 Commandments and the Law given to Moses (after the Israelites turned down God’s offer to relate to Him directly as we can now in Christ) demanded perfect action to rules.  In fact the Bible makes it even clearer that you make Christ’s death unimportant if you believe “keeping the law” is what God cares about.</p> <blockquote> <p>I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” <br />Galatians 2:21, NKJV</p> </blockquote> <p>Instead, our “righteousness” comes from what we believe.  Trusting that Jesus lived perfectly so that our attention (or attention on others) isn’t focused on what we (or they) are doing right or wrong – but focusing and believing that Jesus gave us all of His righteousness, and He took all of our sin.</p> <blockquote> <p>21 But now the righteousness of God has been revealed <u>independently and altogether apart from the Law</u>, although actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets,</p> <p align="left">22 Namely, <u><strong>the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ</strong></u> (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe.</p> <p align="right">Romans 3:21-24Amplified Bible (AMP)</p> </blockquote> <p>It could not be any clearer.</p> <p>And yet huge parts of Christians continue to want to focus not only the sin of sinners – somehow thinking they don’t know they are miserable and “missing the mark” (which is what the word “sin” really means), they also feel compelled to do it against OTHER CHRISTIANS!</p> <p>Now everyone is not only Joel Osteen’s judge, they now are greater than God in pronouncing every celebrity, every politician and every TV personality worthy or not ignoring their own tax cheating, cursing, lustful thoughts, false accusations and speeding through school zones that no one will ever know about because of their anonymity.  Worse – you violate the direction Jesus gave for the same dilemma when the disciples complained that “one who is not following us” is casting out demons in His name.  Jesus said, “<strong>Do not stop them. For whoever is not against us is for us.”</strong></p> <p><strong>“Politijim, are you saying that we should just accept gay marriage, unaddressed lies from the left and political corruption and do nothing about it!!???</strong></p> <p><u>No, not at all</u>.  I’m just saying that there is a reason non-Christians are mean, divisive, judgmental and the last person they would want to be caught in an elevator with  - let alone a desert island, despite the fact Jesus people FLOCKED to Him.   Kids – always a great judge of character couldn’t wait to jump in His arms.  Sinners didn’t feel condemned around him and invited them to their gluttonous parties.  He wasn’t the kill joy that most Christians – indeed – are.</p> <p>Jesus said, </p> <blockquote> <p align="left">By this <strong><u>all</u></strong> will know that you are My disciples, <strong>if</strong> you have love for one another.”</p> <p align="right">John 13:35 New King James Version (NKJV)</p> </blockquote> <p>Notice the Creator of the Universe said that ALL (that means everyone including liberals), will KNOW that you are a Christian <strong>IF</strong> you have AGAPE love (that is selfless love) for each other.</p> <p>Since Rush isn’t here, I’ll translate for those of you in Rio Linda:  “<strong>NO ONE KNOWS OR BELIEVES YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN IF YOU ATTACK, DEMEAN AND CONDEMN OTHERS WHO ARE SEEKING JESUS”  </strong></p> <p>(And I’ll add – they certainly want NOTHING to do with your God.)</p> <p>And that holds true to our political enemies as well.</p> <p>Mormons are not “against” Christianity.   Joel Osteen is not “against” what is best for this country.  Both may be naïve or clueless on things that are obvious to us – but that is no cause to berate and ridicule them.And if you ask me BOTH show more “LOVE” toward other Christians than any of those who want to spend their time attacking and ridiculing others.</p> <p>There is a new documentary by Darren Wilson that came out this fall called <strong>HOLY GHOST</strong>.  (Purchase Streaming <a href="http://holyghost.wpfilm.com/watch/" target="_blank">here</a>.)  It is amazing.  He let the Spirit of God lead him on how to document the moving and power of God in people’s lives.</p> <p><iframe height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cJNaPj4ftVk" frameborder="0" width="560" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>During this segment, the filmmakers followed a fire and brimstone preacher who told every Mormon he me met that they were going to hell.  He shouted scripture and handed out tracts that were written to scare the Bejesus to…well Jesus.  <strong>Over 10 years he had saved 3 people.</strong></p> <p>Then, we followed some young, joyous Christians, drunk on the Holy Spirit (like the Christians of Acts) who merely started praying for the needs of various Mormons they met.  In less than half an hour 4 who had actually EXPERIENCED the Power and Love of God had accepted repented of their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  You know, just like Jesus used to do.</p> <p>Paul said, “And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human[a] wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  [ <em>1 Corinthians 2:4-5, (NKJV)</em>] <br /></p> <p>But what do most evangelicals do today?  Try to the talk the sinner to death – mostly by harboring on how bad and evil and sinful they are.</p> <p><strong>When has that ever worked with you?</strong></p> <p>I can’t remember a single instance from teachers, parents, friends  - and CERTAINLY not strangers – where someone hammered me to death on something I was doing wrong and I suddenly just melted and did whatever they wanted.  Usually it drove me to the EXTREME of the opposite.</p> <p>I wrote a booklet/essay years ago called “<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3gK8AprqzFjMzRlMDUyYmUtZjFkNy00MjUxLTk3OGEtOTBmYjM3NDJhNWE2&hl=en_US" target="_blank">God Unplugged</a>.”  I described my first encounter with this type of Christianity this way:</p> <blockquote> <p>It started the day my momma turned on Billy Graham when I was 13. “Was I a Christian?” “Was I saved?”</p> <p>She wouldn’t let up. I thought, who cares? Sure, I’d gone to Sunday School when I was 8 but no one made it out to be that much different from Cub Scouts or Little League.</p> <p>While my biggest concern was the right sized bell bottom styles and trying to get my first kiss, mom suddenly morphed into Darth Vader. "What kind of music was I listening to?" "Are kids my age drinking?"</p> <p>"Was I having sex yet?" (Like I’d talk about that with my mom!). There were more commandments handed down that week than Moses on Mt. Caffeine. I was just sure of one thing - I was no longer neutral on religion. I was now firmly against it.</p> </blockquote> <p>Honestly, it wasn’t really until the past 5 years that I found out how totally forgiving, loving and non-judgmental Jesus is.  And it hasn’t made me want to sin more – it’s made me want to sin less – since my love for Him has grown exponentially.  </p> <blockquote> <p align="left">Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that <strong>the goodness of God leads you to repentance</strong>? </p> <p align="right">Romans 2:4 (NKJV)</p> </blockquote> <p>I just finished a great book by Jason Clark which summarizes it wonderfully:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>I used to try and love God, but now I just let Him love me.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>This is why Jesus was so RADICAL to the “religious” community and why they wanted him killed!</strong>  What?  All I have to do is trust in God and tell people that and I don’t have to pay for my sins??</p> <p>Didn’t Jesus let the adulteress off?  Didn’t he let Peter off when He had just told the public that if someone denies Jesus before people, Jesus would deny that person in front of GOD!?</p> <p><strong>THIS is why the Left can’t stand us and won’t listen to our ideas</strong>.  THIS is why we are called hypocrites.  Our “claim to fame” rests on our OWN righteousness – rather than that of Jesus’.  And Paul says that if you DO NOT KNOW that repentance comes from telling and demonstrating God’s GOODNESS (not His condemnation) then you “despise the riches of God!” </p> <p>Paul is pretty adamant that this is NOT the way to live the Christian life. In fact, he calls those who try to put Christians back on the Law of doing right and wrong – versus letting Jesus and the Holy Spirit live inside you ACCURSED.</p> <blockquote> <p>I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 …8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be <strong>accursed</strong>. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be <strong>accursed</strong></p> <p align="right">Galatians 1</p> </blockquote> <p>If you read the whole chapter (or book) Paul makes it clear that these Galatians are caught up with being “religious” rather just believing by faith they are righteous through faith. (Don’t take my word for it read it yourself!)</p> <p><strong>Going Back to How to Change People</strong></p> <p>Now lest you think I’m turning into John Kerry, who believes if we just quit antagonizing Muslims they will stop their jihad, let me talk about the difference between PERSONAL and GOVERNMENTAL responsibilities as a Christian.  Clearly Jesus said to render to CESEAR what is CESEAR’s and to render God that which is God’s.  When you are talking (or tweeting) an individual – your standard is far different from what we do as a society through government power.</p> <p>PERSONAL SALVATION isn’t under the dominion of the government (unless you live in an Islamic or Communist state).  And all faithful Christians and Jews ARE required to be “good stewards” of that which is given them.  Jesus pointed out for instance that the person who sets out to build a barn without planning, and budgeting for it will be ridiculed.  Americans were given STEWARDSHIP responsibilities unlike any other government in history.  </p> <p>So while I can personally pray for and “love” my friends who are gay or Muslim (I have both by the way), I can also advocate public policy that is responsible to oversee my responsibility as WE THE PEOPLE.  (Unlike other countries, WE THE PEOPLE have the authority over government – we just seldom talk about or enforce it).</p> <p>It isn’t any more “loving” to let crooks steal goods or my cash from grocery store than it is to let those with no commitment to steal the wealth (or morality) of my country.</p> <p><strong>I just don’t have to be angry about it all the time.</strong></p> <p>Remember <strong>Jesus knit a bullwhip and DROVE the moneychangers from the temple</strong>.  But also notice that NO WHERE does it say he did this in anger.</p> <p>Like a petulant 5 year old child of mine, I can firmly spank their little behinds with an attitude of complete calm  - and even caring – because I know that  - for where their maturity is – it is the best thing for them.</p> <p>The concept to defend one’s self, family and country is also biblical.  But when we see our society, culture and government attacked with things that we KNOW instinctively are wrong (and even dangerous), it is natural to cry out in outrage.</p> <p>But we already know the concept of “appropriate and proportional response” in law.  I will shoot dead an intruder in my home without a second thought to their wellbeing, but would (rightfully) be jailed and tried for shooting a politician who wanted to sign a law allowing the government to invade it electronically, or confiscate my goods without Constitutional due process.   Why?  Because of “imminent threat.”</p> <p>We all know that releasing millions of illegal aliens into public – many that are dangerous criminals – isn’t just a theoretical political danger, it is a very real threat to our homes and communities.  (Just ask border town victims.)</p> <p>Darryl Issa has been amazing in his professional, mature demeanor in Congress (albeit not strong enough in taking politically risky actions like actually calling for Holder’s imprisonment.)  And as such, many in the middle feel “safe” in standing behind his efforts as opposed to someone like Alex Jones.</p> <p>But on one on one, interactions with other Christians and liberals – IF WE CLAIM TO FOLLOW CHRIST – we are besmirching Jesus’ reputation more than Obama is the Constitution when we keep demanding “performance” that Jesus never did.</p> <p>I had one poster on the Charisma challenge me that Jesus said, “be ye perfect” and “if you love Me keep My commandments” inferring that it was all of MY responsibility to not sin and be perfect.  I find it funny he also didn’t tell me it was my responsibility to heal the sick and raise dead on my own too!  It is this false notion that somehow I can make myself become like Jesus - without Jesus!</p> <p>The Bible is pretty clear:</p> <blockquote> <p>…[because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord… </p> <p><strong>2 Corinthians 3:18, AMP</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Why can’t we call sin “sin” without condemning people?</strong></p> <p>Jesus seem do OK by changing the hearts of the people and the entire world.  Muhammad seemed to do not quite as well, but OK too.  But in a very destructive way.</p> <p>Islamists want to change the world by total control.   They want to DEMAND every one abides by what they think is RIGHT or WRONG, and if you don’t agree – they will kill you.  </p> <p>Unfortunately this is PRECISELY how many conservative Christians behave.  “We demand you quit sinning and we are going to implement a law to make sure you do!”</p> <p>Funny thing is  - all the laws in the world won’t change someone’s heart to WANT to do the right thing.  Only Jesus and the Holy Spirit can.</p> <p>If conservatives spent HALF the time praying not just for our country – but for those who want to transform it into Sodom and Gomorrah, both in quiet and DIRECTLY, they might be surprised at how impact it would have.</p> <p>Many say they believe in the Bible.  It’s about time they started ACTING like it including the part that says, “Love conquers all.” </p> <p>And maybe then as we continue to try and elect godly men and women to government to continue to create Constitutional conduct, some socialists will be struck blind by the lack of anger, animosity and animus on their path to Destruction.  And we’ll frame our policies and positions with true sense of concern that might make the scales fall from the eyes.</p> <p>The Bible is brilliant.  There is a clear guideline on how to deal with the rebellious.  It seems contradictory but isn’t.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Do not answer a fool according to his folly, <br />Lest you also be like him. <br /> <br />Answer a fool according to his folly, <br />Lest he be wise in his own eyes.</strong></p> <p align="right">Proverbs 26-4-5 NKJV</p> </blockquote> <p>When we are given opportunities to dismantle their own “wisdom,” we have a mandate IF it does in a way that doesn’t reflect the “spirit” of selfishness, vindictiveness and pride that wants to exert power and disrespect to beat the other side into submission.</p> <p>We do this in the right way, we will not only win over the secular right and many on the left, but we will win back the country our Founders envisioned.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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Smith intelligently bring up the discussion without threats of losing his job and (worse) being stuck hosting a show with Keith Olbermann until he died.)  Yet I digress.</p> <p>Petersen was recently a victim of <em>true </em>child abuse to 2 year old son by the mother’s boyfriend who murdered him just last year.  But by all means, let’s jump to conclusion that he immediately inflicted harm on one of his other children with a switch (nothing more than a tree twig) that is common (and lawful) in many places in the rest of the world.  Thank God he didn’t name his son “Redskin” or Eric Holder would already have him in Guantanamo.  How did simply doing something our parents and grandparents did become “child abuse?”</p> <p>My parents suddenly quit spanking me when I was about 5.  My mother fell under the spell of one Dr. Benjamin Spock who took to every morning TV show and news program to explain that the greatest generation of the greatest country which had achieved the greatest moral and prosperity freedoms in history had it all wrong.  </p> <p>My mom bought Benjamin’s BS instead of using the one in sociology she achieved at college and removed her 18” Phi Mu sorority paddle from display.  So when little PolitiJimmy decided to see if it might be more environmentally advantageous to burn a fire in the oven, she explained to me how wrong it was, how creative I was and assumed I could understand all this like a mature 30 year old.  She decided that there would be no more pain associated with anything I ever did wrong.  Well, at least until I started stealing cars and throwing plates at them when I was 16.  I can’t imagine what the policeman (whom I would come to know quite well) thought when I explained to him it hurt my feelings that I actually had to obey my parents over taking the car to my first kegger.</p> <p>Granted, I had the highest esteem and confidence of any child in Chicago but also tested in the 5% percentile in self discipline, reason, moral judgment and respect for (any) authority.  </p> <p>It took about 3 years of continued financial and legal destruction before I finally got the hint:  “<strong>There ARE rules and they do have consequences no matter how they make you <em>FEEL</em></strong>.”  </p> <p>It took another 2 decades, 2 marriages, 2 emotionally wounded children and even more financial devastation to start rewiring my brain, instinct and association to “get” how life worked and how valuable core character qualities like complete honesty, self-restraint and concern for others not only was beneficial to my life, but necessary to the pursuit of happiness.</p> <p>I did somewhat better with my 2 children when they were young.  However, I learned that not all punishment was equal.  My daughter popped into this world with all the happiness, energy and vitality of her father.  She also had most of his reinforced iron will and obstinence.  And while I ALWAYS would paddle her out of love and not anger – even intentionally waiting an hour until I calmed down after she lied about drawing the likeness of the neighbor’s cat on the living room wall in purple.  (Seriously, it didn’t look like the cat at all.)</p> <p>I never really tested the limits of how hard I could spank her, but I did increase the pressure – or duration - as she kept laughing through the entire thing thinking it was a game.  Even the few times a few tears were dropped, she’d be asking me for a cookie or to play only seconds afterward.    Needless to say, the paddle would break long before her determination would.</p> <p>My son was completely different.  A stern look of disapproval would send him bawling and even putting my hand on the paddle would send him into convulsions.  He was so sensitive by nature he never really needed ANY physical punishment.  And both (thank God) have been far more successful in so many more “life” areas than I ever was, although I can’t take credit for either.</p> <p>Yes, there are parents that have their own self-discipline, anger and emotional issues who, out of fear or ignorance, physically and emotionally harm their children.  They should be prosecuted immediately and fully so that THEY can learn boundaries that clearly aren’t being grasped any other way.</p> <p>WND ran <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2009/01/87179/" target="_blank">an article</a> eloquently describing why it is that violent crime has tripled since the “Dr. Spock” era began.</p> <blockquote> <p>The sexual revolution that started in the ’60s continues with many casualties. Promiscuity has become so rampant that 1 of every 4 teenage girls now has a sexually transmitted infection. In the last five decades, practices have become so deviant that the number of distinct STDs had risen from five to more than 50 – a sudden increase of a thousand percent. Obsession with sexual violence has brought a 318 percent increase in sexual assault.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/effective_biblical_discipline/effective-child-discipline.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 4px; display: inline" src="http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/effective_biblical_discipline/~/media/58CC3FC7C8CA47B88EA32C672C0DA8B8.ashx?w=456&h=384&as=1" width="327" align="right" height="277" /></a></p> <p>There are many parenting styles.  And many studies of how effective (or ineffective) many are.  From the Ruben Hill study, I realized that my parents weren’t the worst parents – NEGLECTFUL.  They simply let their fear of peer judgment, or fear of their own ability to restrain themselves from inflicting TRUE harm upon me override what was best for me.  It is quite possible that the cruelty of my grandfather toward my father growing up played a role in over-compensating.  My mother however was spoiled rotten by her parents but likely also had issues in that they weren’t around all that much in her later years.  So, I don’t want to seem ungrateful for what they DID do for me.  </p> <p>There are research studies that support that corporal punishment is beneficial.  From the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240279/Children-smacked-young-likely-successful-study-finds.html" target="_blank">UK Daily Mail</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Young children who are smacked by their parents grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, research claims. </p> <p>It found that children who are smacked before the age of six perform better at school when they are teenagers. </p> <p>They are also more likely to do voluntary work and to want to go to university than those who have never been physically disciplined. </p> </blockquote> <p>I was shocked to learn just how polarized academia was in research for this column.  As many studies have been published showing the benefits of corporal punishment I saw a pattern that the study authors are attacked – Alinsky style.  The Daily Kos (same one that thought maybe we were lynching Ray Rice by media excess) decided their best comeback against a Professor who found that even young children are better off for physical discipline was to stain her by saying, “Surprise! She’s a Christian.”  Perhaps they are unaware of how Christianity alone took a barbarian world into peace, freedom and prosperity exceeding every other “philosophy” in the history of the world.  Or perhaps they were just early Common Core graduates.</p> <p>But the author (and subject of attack), Marjorie Gunnoe, professor of Psychology at Calvin College in the Michigan, found there was not enough evidence to prove that physical punishment harmed most children with the exception of a segment over the age of 6 who were STILL much more academically successful than their coddled contemporaries.  I seriously wonder if disconnect is where the parent is oblivious to the sensitivity of their own child or the MANNER in which they inflict it.  I probably would feel differently about my parents slapping my hand for attempting to touch the stove than if they dried to cut it off altogether.  And I really don’t’ see any studies that study the parents motivation of worldview guidelines – or how they would, since every parent thinks they are probably a great parent.</p> <p>Of course at the end of the day you have to get into the detail of the study yourself to determine the true balance of the “he said, she said” battle of the PR corporal punishment battle.  As a layman, it seemed to me that the research of the “pro-punishment” group doesn’t have a lot of substantial empirical challenges, but I’m no researcher.  (Just ask my former professors.)  However, two facts stand out to me.  First, the central argument against punishment by it’s detractors is almost solely based in attacking the researcher and “method” rather than showing substantial data themselves.  Secondly is REAL WORLD experience.  You KNOW friends, family or neighbors that don’t spank their kids and have seen how those kids turn out.  You KNOW the character of your children.  And yourself.</p> <p>And all of us know that PAIN is a great teacher.  Emotional pain in avoiding the wrong person to date makes a wiser in choosing the right one.  Physical pain of not eating motivates one to work.  The segment of children (like me) who are born with a bit stronger self-will than others ESPECIALY know this because we test the boundaries more than our peers and always seemed to have suffered for it.  It shouldn’t be especially surprising to know that the Dr. Spock’s of the world have created a departure of what has been known for over 3000 years:</p> <blockquote> <p>He who spares his rod [of discipline] hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines diligently and punishes him early. (Proverbs 13:24 Amplified)</p> </blockquote> <p>It seems obvious to me that the parent who does NOT inflict some form of appropriately measured discipline is another form of an abuser.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.</div>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-1310237654663866752014-08-08T12:20:00.001-07:002014-08-09T08:42:37.406-07:00Heritage Foundation Goes Global Warming Crony Capitalism Crazy<p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-I3VqCSi89i4/U-Ui_7ytIiI/AAAAAAAAVH0/ACe2_ORKPC0/s1600-h/2014-08-08-10_27_26-1.png"><img title="2014-08-08 10_27_26-" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="2014-08-08 10_27_26-" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-RaCvHZAWD8M/U-UjCBA5-LI/AAAAAAAAVH8/uDEjPlZZ9NA/2014-08-08-10_27_26-_thumb3.png?imgmax=800" width="559" height="355" /></a></p> <p>I am a big fan of the Heritage Foundation.  Especially under the new reign of former Senator Jim DeMint.  But this morning’s “The Daily Signal” by Daren Bakst is everything contrary to the true conservative mission I understood that Heritage stood for.</p> <p>Bakst wants to make a case that mandatory GMO labeling is “big government” and “anti-consumer.”  He (incredulously) makes broad (and undocumented) scientific conclusions of the safety of GMO’s.   And I write this as much to hope they will “buy a vowel” on the true science behind the current GMO academic understandings and not suddenly turn into the equivalent of Al Gore disciples of ignorance and corruption.</p> <p><strong><u>Bakst’s Beginning Deceit</u></strong></p> <p>Bakst starts out deliberately deceiving his readers that GMO have existed from the beginning of time.  In the same tact of a global warming evangelist, he misuses the term “GMO” to only associate it with hybridization and cross-pollenization most of us learned by virtue of our high school science lessons on the famous friar Gregor Mendel.   What Bakst doesn’t acknowledge is that nature itself PREVENTS “unholy” genetic mutations.   We all know that a mule (offspring of a horse and donkey) can’t reproduce.  So nature (or some would suggest God’s design) itself stops large inter-special mutations from occurring.   Bakst somehow wants to mislead his reader that the genetic mutation of a new colored rose is the same as splicing glysophate (aka RoundUp - designed to explode the intervascular system of a weed causing it to die internal malfunction) into corn, soy or rutabaga. </p> <p>No, they are not the same.  YES, genetics change over team through environment and breeding.   NO, that does not mean that taking frog DNA and putting it into tomatoes, or splicing e-coli strains into baby food have been proved by centuries of scientific observation.  (And yes, these both are already occurring.)</p> <p><strong><u>Bakst’s UNSAFE Crony Capitalist Talking Points</u></strong></p> <p>Under the headline “Safety” Bakst makes the statement:</p> <blockquote> <p>The FDA not only has said GMO foods are safe; it also has expressly stated that labeling of GMO foods isn’t necessary.</p> </blockquote> <p>So, let me get this right.  To prove that GMO labeling is “big government” he cites “big government” as his definitive source?  Mr. Bakst didn’t think it was salient to also include the fact that the FDA has REFUSED to do any actual TESTING of GMO’s.  Even the UN/WHO and the AMA call for that.  As OCA notes:</p> <blockquote> <p>Meanwhile, a growing body of peer-reviewed <a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/prop37/pages/67/attachments/original/1348032282/Peer_reviewed_studies_on_GM_food_health_risks.pdf?1348032282">studies in the scientific literature </a>suggests genetic engineering is linked to allergies and other adverse effects and increased pesticide use . The<a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/AMA-GE-resolutions-3-19-12.pdf"> United Nations/World Health Organization food standards ...</a> and the <a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/018433.html">American Medical Association</a> have called for mandatory safety testing of genetically engineered foods.</p> </blockquote> <p>As if this wasn’t bad enough, Bakst then makes a wild claim citing an organization TOTALLY funded by pro-GMO companies.  he says:</p> <blockquote> <p>Beyond the FDA, the science supporting the safety of GMOs is overwhelming. The <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/">Genetic Literacy Project</a> has a <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/GLP-Science-and-GMOs.pdf">great chart</a> outlining conclusions from major international organizations that supports the safety of GMO foods.</p> </blockquote> <p>Really?  Perhaps you missed the <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/64-established-scientists-challenge-expert-panel-suggested-nrcs-latest-international-gmo-study/#ixzz39p5Mxdam" target="_blank">letter from 64 well respected scientists</a> who have had to go “whistleblower” on a similar faked effort underway at the U.S. National Academy of Science’s National Research Council.  One of these scientist says it succinctly:</p> <blockquote> <p>As scientists and researchers, we are deeply disturbed by NRC’s creation of a panel that appears predisposed to endorse GE crops, without undertaking a balanced and evidence-based assessment of the real-world impacts of the technology.</p> <p>A successful investigation of the complex agronomic, ecological, economic, social, political and cultural impacts of GE crops around the world demands a panel of highly skilled experts trained in the social sciences and in multidisciplinary analysis, and having real-world experience beyond the microscope.</p> <p>Very few individuals on the proposed committee possess this expertise, a few exemplary exceptions notwithstanding. As currently configured, NRC’s panel has nowhere near the scholarly or real-world expertise required to produce a credible product.</p> </blockquote> <p>And if that isn’t enough, how about the <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/800-scientists-global-gmo-experiment-stop/" target="_blank">800 scientists from 84 countries</a> who are demanding a complete halt to not only GMO production.</p> <p>Or how about the <a href="http://www.ensser.org/increasing-public-information/no-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety/" target="_blank">230+ scientists INCLUDING A SCIENTIST WHO HELPED COMMERICAL THE GMO FLAVR SAVR TOMATO</a> who have publically stated that there is “no consensus” on GMO safety.</p> <p>Dr. Belinda Martineau is a former member of the Michelmore Lab at the University of California Davis Genome Center, where she worked on the technology for the first GM-whole food. Now, however, she isn’t so convinced about its value.</p> <p>In backing the statement against GMO safety, <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15139-developer-of-first-commercialised-gm-food-says-debate-isn-t-over">Dr. Martineau wrote:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>“I wholeheartedly support this thorough, thoughtful and professional statement describing the lack of scientific consensus on the safety of genetically engineered (GM) crops and other GM organisms (also referred to as GMOs). Society’s debate over how best to utilize the powerful technology of genetic engineering is clearly not over. For its supporters to assume it is, is little more than wishful thinking.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Hmmmm.    Governments and media declaring a “consensus” among scientists when there are thousands who not only disagree, but are denied a right to have their papers peer-reviewed and published.  What does THAT remind you of?  Maybe a nearly 18 year absence of “global warming” that was supposedly unanimous among scientists but turned out to really be less than 12%?</p> <p>Does Heritage understand that China has now banned all US crops due to GMO contamination?  Are you telling me a totalitarian communist government that badly NEEDS cheap US food would really even care about their own population if this wasn’t a major health issue?</p> <p>Did Heritage miss the <a href="http://www.seedsofdoubtconference.com/videos-la-oct-6-2012" target="_blank">scientific presentations of dozens of credentialed scientists</a> last year discussing the latest research on GMO and health safety?  Perhaps I can help.  Here is just one presentation where court documents reveal that FDA scientists DID indeed believe GMO’s caused damage despite their employers position:</p> <div id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:a17efb45-ce3b-4bed-9895-d31a04b6cba8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px"><div><object width="448" height="252"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hR71MHdVVJ0?hl=en&hd=1"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hR71MHdVVJ0?hl=en&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="448" height="252"></embed></object></div><div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">FDA Scientists Admit GMO Health Concerns</div></div> <p><strong><u>Lobbyist Crony Capitalism At It’s Worse</u></strong></p> <p>And it get’s worse.  The “policy” of the FDA to make biotech companies do their own testing is administered by it’s leadership.  Who, pray tell RUNS the FDA?  A <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27143.cfm" target="_blank">former GMO executive who keeps jumping back and forth between the FDA</a> and Monsanto.  The ULTIMATE Crony Capitalist who <a href="http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/" target="_blank">asked the US GOVERNMENT for the right to IGNORE court findings of liability</a> against …you guessed it GMO’s. </p> <p>Mr. Bakst a question for you.  If GMO’s are so “safe,” why did an enemy of conservative causes whose campaign is funded by the leading GMO advocate in the world need legal protection from future court cases finding GMO’s harmful and usurping the rights of American citizens?</p> <p>Are you sure you want to stick with this notion that being against GMO labeling is “conservative?”</p> <p><u><strong>Big Government</strong></u></p> <p>Bakst tries to make a correlation that “labeling” equals “big government.”  Oddly, he finds no problem with the existence of the FDA ITSELF.  (So I’m assuming Bakst finds it’s ok to have a massive government bureaucracy overseeing “Food” and “Drugs” but the government can only regulate “Drugs”?)</p> <p>Of course, this would be the same FDA that was manipulated by political chicanery to approve Aspartame (Nutrasweet) despite clear evidence that it not only hid damning studies, but was known to turn into formaldehyde in the digestive system.  <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/03/just-how-bad-is-aspartame.aspx" target="_blank">Former Searle President Don Rumsfeld had the obstructing FDA President removed</a> so that his former employer could poison billions legally through their patent.  But I’m sure that’s hunky dory and “pro business” in Heritage’s eyes?</p> <p><strong><u>The Intellectual Missing Link</u></strong></p> <p>What Bakst misses (IMHO) is that as long as government ALREADY claims control of the right to regulate Food and Drugs, the call to remove labeling endorses ONLY the rich companies that can manipulate government regulation and decree.  As in the NutraSweet example above, millions assume that there is some new safety with the government’s Good Housekeeping seal of approval.  Oddly, in light of the millions of sick Americans and studies exposing liver disease, kidney failure and even cancer, the FDA has now issued a warning for Aspartame.  </p> <p>(Here’s a hint for Mr. Bakst: Either advocate a complete Libertarian principle where government should be out of EVERYTHING except national defense and international trade as the Founder’s designed, or help in protecting Americans FROM tyrannical government.  Otherwise you embarrass the “conservative” movement as a whole.)</p> <p>Many in the conservative movement decry the “progressive” movement of the Teddy Roosevelt era.  But what they often overlook is that corporations were completely unregulated (or taxed) up until that point and could do what they would.  They romantically assume some kind morality to capitalism when business did nothing to stop child labor, false labeling, market manipulation and more.  Capitalism FAILED to effectively protect the very marketplace it demanded.  And thus was born government oversight.  Not every railroad baron was evil and wanted to destroy towns for personal tyranny but many did by sheer political and financial influence.  </p> <p>No I’m not against Capitalism.  The Founders brilliance allowed government to create a hands off system that allowed America to create the greatest improvement of human welfare (by virtue of free enterprise) with a government structure that allowed it to flourish.  It created a framework of trademarks and patents without which they knew there would be no protection (or reward) for innovation.  But now some patents are used KEEP innovation off of the market and even are leveraged to create monopolies over a basic human right, the right to grow your own food.  (More on that below.)</p> <p>So how do you protect people but allow capitalism to prosper?  The Founder’s knew the answer quite well:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.</b> The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies. </p> <ul> <li>John Adams <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28dg004210%29%29">Letter</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabdiel_Adams">Zabdiel Adams</a> (21 June 1776) </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>But today morality is relative.  We can trust NEITHER government or business or even our population to do what is the “right” thing for all.</p> <p>The tyrannical weapon granted by government that Bakst is defending is, in fact, the worst form of capitalism.  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-kucinich/the-enemy-of-family-farmers_b_4064134.html" target="_blank">Monsanto has been using it to attack the small farmer for years</a> to drive him out of business.  Multiple documentaries including FOOD, Inc. and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (free to watch <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/" target="_blank">here</a>) expose case after case of a small farmer whose crops INADVERTANTLY are cross contaminated by a nearby Monsanto field, and Monsanto moves in to (literally) shut the small farmer down if he doesn’t pay the mafia vig.  </p> <p>THIS is who Heritage is defending.  </p> <p>And they and Bakst should not only be ashamed of themselves, they should immediately reverse their position and work to eliminate one of the most egregious instances of crony capitalism.</p> <p>That or join their soul brothers Al Gore and Barak Obama in pretending that by taxing companies, they can change the weather.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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