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I have enjoyed this board for some time. I resolved a long time ago to quit posting- took up too much time. This controversy regarding Trump has caused me to throw over my resolution. Never would have thought my first post would be on politics.

I live in Wise County, Virginia- about seven miles from the Kentucky line. My family has long been involved in politics in both Kentucky and Virginia. I am a former chairman of the Republican Party in Wise County and a former member of the State Central Committee of the Republican party in Virginia.

I Support Donald Trump. He offers the best hope for the economic survival of the people in these mountains. Free trade is destroying small town and rural America. The destruction by a misguided trade policy of the industrial base of the upper South is tragic. Consider the job losses in small town Kentucky.
Ted Cruz has no answer for this and he tries not to talk about it. He is a free trader. He calls himself a free market Conservative, but his version of Conservatism is just another bow before the altar of big business. His ties to corporate interests are strong and pervasive. This alone makes him unfit to be President.

This country needs a President who is not for the special interests- something a free trader can never be. Under no circumstances could I support a partisan of free trade. A friend of mine from Jenkins called freee traders "economic traitors". He was correct.