[Hoot Gibson]

To your last comment about Dr Piper. I respectfully disagree as God's leaders are called to emulate the standard of behavior demonstrated by the Lord when He walked this earth. The Paul Simon song entitled "Slip Sliding Away," contains a lyric of which I am particularly fond. In that lyric he spoke of a man he once knew from his home town who, "wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown." Forgive me, but being a Christian is not a prerequisite for becoming President of the United States. And Dr Piper's display of righteous indignation (his own thorny crown) was couched in a scenario that on it's face may have seemed somewhat noble. However, it is my contention that since he was not approached by Trump about the possibility of addressing the students there at Wesleyan, his transition or justification for summing up the motives of Mr Trump were put forth in a somewhat disingenuous manner. But hey, it's not like I am advocating to have him burned at the stake or anything.

Not really. Cruz is a world class debater and very nearly a genius. I would have thought that if there were any viable cannon fodder out there. That he, or one of the others in the field would have touched off the gun powder by now.

Have you even watched Ted Cruz's ads, which consist mostly of Donald Trump expressing his views in his own words? The material that I have posted and will continue posting in the "The Case Against Donald Trump" thread is what I learn from Ted Cruz, his campaign, and his supporters on Twitter. Cruz is doing his job of exposing Trump as the dishonest liberal that he is, but he cannot force people to listen.

Cruz is helping drive Trump's unfavorable numbers to record levels (60 percent) by repeating and compiling Trump's inconsistent, vague, and illogical policy positions. If you read through Trump's own Twitter tweets, I think that you will agree that he is one obnoxious human being. He is his own worst enemy. There is no way that a political candidate can call so many people who disagree with him or endorse another candidate liars, losers, corrupt, failures, etc. and not pay a price at the ballot box. When a candidate has an unfavorability rating higher than Hillary Clinton, who has 150 FBI investigators investigating her for dozens of possible felonies, there is a real problem.

Trump is not a conservative and the policies that he has supported in the past have not been much different than those of Obama. It does not make much difference if the next president is a liberal Republican or a liberal Democrat, the country cannot afford to make either mistake. Trump's promise of building a wall and banning Muslims from entering the country were nothing but political stunts to get attention. The biggest problem with Trump is that he has has no moral compass and his previous choices in life shout that fact to all who will listen.