[TheRealThing]

Trump lied when he said his campaign would be self funded. That was very obvious to anybody who looked at his FEC filings with an objective eye. The positions that he took during the primary season have already begun to shift. Trump will peddle influence in exchange for cash now, just as he has bought influence from politicians for most of his adult life. That was his plan when he loaned his campaign money instead of financing his campaign on a "pay as you go" basis.

If you review my previous posts on Trump lying about self funding his campaign, you will see that I was correct. I posted links to Trump's FEC filings, if you took time to notice them. Trump will take special interest money and retire his campaign's debt to himself.

Donald Trump accepting money from special interests is no different than Hillary Clinton accepting money from many of those same special interests. Money buys political influence and influence is the product that Hillary and Trump are peddling. Trump was an influence buyer who has morphed into a seller. Predictable.

No... he didn't. He did not accept funding from the power brokers because he wanted to prove the legitimacy of his campaign of and by himself. He ran his campaign by the seat of his pants, said anything he pleased, and he did self fund it. One could make the same charge you have made against a housing contractor. Very often they go to a bank and take out a construction loan. Then after the house sells, they pay back the loan and pray there is something left they can call profit. Is that an act of self funding? It is in my book. You were just as certain you were right when you made the post in which you charged Trump with running interference for Hillary in playing the stalking horse. How'd that one pan out? In any case he is the nominee and the people's choice. I do not get all the obsessing and whining about it now that it is over and done.

I was less than thrilled with Romney when he won, but at some point after, I became more familiar with his record and his ability to think on his feet, and he grew on me. So much so that I was genuinely crushed when he lost to Obama. Word has it that 93% of Republicans voted for him and the only way it seems that we will see a Dem go down to defeat is in wooing sufficient enough crossover voters to tip the balance. A balance BTW that becomes more insurmountable every day we allow a no enforcement border policy to continue. This is a good time to feature in one's mind how much worse the problem will be 8 years from now when Hillary gets done with us. Prior to his entrance, nobody at all dared to identity the problem as it is in truth. No, political correctness driven to the absurd precluded any such clarity of thought or word.

Trump has demonstrated the ability to get those votes in eye popping numbers and almost all of those who have endorsed him of late agree with that assessment. Ted Cruz is only 46 years old, it genuinely escapes me why he would be drop dead against filling the ticket with Trump. If he loves his country and feels a debt he can never repay as he claims, what's so bad about spending the next 16 years at the forefront of world prominence? I mean, if it really is his bent to serve 'the people,' that seems equivalent to being insulted with a 10 million dollar cashier's check. Not exactly punishment from where I sit.

But, if the love of money is the root of all evil, the power of money would seem to have been the bane of the land of the free. Men and women in office frequently these days sell their souls for favor, and that is a reflection of America's spiritual degeneration. Trump did give money to the establishment, he admitted that freely. His candor about it in the debates indicated to me that he was being forthcoming. Not forewarning America that he would employ those unsavory tactics if elected. Confession of offenses in one's life are more often the surety that that person has changed for the better, not a warning shot across the bow of what's coming.