Consider some of the issues in play this election season:
(Listed in the order of my priorities)
- Illegal Immigration / Securing the Border / Eliminating Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists
- The Runaway National Debt
- Unsustainable Entitlements, esp. Social Security
- Low Workforce Participation (combination of job market and welfare abuse)
- Second Amendment Rights
- Tyrannical Environmental Agenda of the Left
- Military / Iran Deal / Conflict in the Mid East (Downgraded in urgency somewhat so long as Putin stays on the scene to hit ISIS)
- Mass Data Collection (HUD, NSA, IRS, ... ) / Privacy
- Tax Reform / Kill the IRS
- Repeal and Replace ObamaCare
- End CommonCore
- Late-Term Abortions / Planned Parenthood
All of these issues will eventually have to be addressed if we hope to reverse the transition of our country from a Constitutional Republic to an Open Border, Equal Outcome Welfare State. The problem is, no candidate is going to realistically address all of them. A candidate that does set out to address every issue will get nothing accomplished well.
Therefore, it's critical that we select a candidate that will genuinely tackle the most critical issue of our generation!
I believe that if we don't get a handle on illegal immigration, very few of the other issues matter. When I first heard of the Leftist project to Turn Texas Blue, I figured they were embarking on a campaign to win over Independents. The most nefarious scheme I would have attributed to the project was an expansion of welfare programs in Texas to recruit more voters to the Democrat Party through dependence on the government. I never suspected that the plan was to open the Southern Border and simultaneously sue the state for implementing Voter ID laws intended to guard the integrity of the ballot box! If Texas, with its 36 electoral college votes, ultimately turns blue, it will signify the end of an opposition party to the Democrats' Socialist agenda. It would be check mate for the Equal Opportunity, free market founding principles of our country.
Only Trump has made illegal immigration his signature issue, which explains much of his strength in the polls. I question whether any other candidate in the race has the fortitude to actually build a wall on the Southern Border, expand deportations of illegal aliens, turn off the job and welfare magnet for illegal immigrants, and force adjudication on whether birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment extends even to illegal aliens and tourists. I have little doubt which way the Leftist Progressive courts will rule on the issue of the 14th Amendment. Then it will be time to push for an additional amendment to clarify that "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States refers to people with allegiance to the US who are here legally and permanently - not anyone who finds themselves within our borders regardless of their intent.
Some principled Constitutionalists and Conservatives that I admire greatly will recoil at my endorsement of Donald Trump. They will recite numerous Liberal positions that Trump has held relatively recently on key issues, including single-payer healthcare and gun control - positions on which I believe he has had a change in heart. (See http://johnlockforarticlev.blogspot.com/2015/08/donald-trump-candidate-of-wakeup-crowd.html)
Regardless, I am not supporting Trump in hopes that he will save the Constitution from its erosion by the Left, but in the hope that he will reassert our borders and sovereignty so that a Constitutionalist after him, like Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, will have a country again where our founding principles can be reestablished.
Moreover, if Trump can deliver to the GOP the multitudes that he's already brought to this primary process, this Wake Up Crowd is much more likely to stick with a Republican successor of Trump in numbers far greater than Cruz or Paul can muster today.
When you select your candidate, don't pick one that best overlaps with your views on every issue. Instead, pick the two or three issues that are your highest priorities and choose the candidate that will deliver on those issues with all of their might. As Trump recently said in an interview, it doesn't matter what the 12th Step of your plan is - no one ever gets to the 12th Step.
And by all means, don't pick an Establishment GOP candidate that only brings bipartisanship rather than opposition to the Equal Outcome Agenda of the Democrats and Cheap-Labor Chamber of Commerce.
Only Trump has made illegal immigration his signature issue, which explains much of his strength in the polls. I question whether any other candidate in the race has the fortitude to actually build a wall on the Southern Border, expand deportations of illegal aliens, turn off the job and welfare magnet for illegal immigrants, and force adjudication on whether birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment extends even to illegal aliens and tourists. I have little doubt which way the Leftist Progressive courts will rule on the issue of the 14th Amendment. Then it will be time to push for an additional amendment to clarify that "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States refers to people with allegiance to the US who are here legally and permanently - not anyone who finds themselves within our borders regardless of their intent.
Some principled Constitutionalists and Conservatives that I admire greatly will recoil at my endorsement of Donald Trump. They will recite numerous Liberal positions that Trump has held relatively recently on key issues, including single-payer healthcare and gun control - positions on which I believe he has had a change in heart. (See http://johnlockforarticlev.blogspot.com/2015/08/donald-trump-candidate-of-wakeup-crowd.html)
Regardless, I am not supporting Trump in hopes that he will save the Constitution from its erosion by the Left, but in the hope that he will reassert our borders and sovereignty so that a Constitutionalist after him, like Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, will have a country again where our founding principles can be reestablished.
Moreover, if Trump can deliver to the GOP the multitudes that he's already brought to this primary process, this Wake Up Crowd is much more likely to stick with a Republican successor of Trump in numbers far greater than Cruz or Paul can muster today.
When you select your candidate, don't pick one that best overlaps with your views on every issue. Instead, pick the two or three issues that are your highest priorities and choose the candidate that will deliver on those issues with all of their might. As Trump recently said in an interview, it doesn't matter what the 12th Step of your plan is - no one ever gets to the 12th Step.
And by all means, don't pick an Establishment GOP candidate that only brings bipartisanship rather than opposition to the Equal Outcome Agenda of the Democrats and Cheap-Labor Chamber of Commerce.
