The Trump Card

Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for several decades, not only as a financial wizard and real estate mogul, but also for his much publicized divorce from his Czech wife, Ivana, in 1992. They were both outspoken and obnoxious, they both survived. I remember thinking when one of his casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, filed for bankruptcy that this vain, brash, self-absorbed business giant was about to be taken down.

But Trump didn't go down. It turns out he has a lot more business acumen than most people realize and he has used it to build a multi-billion dollar empire. Using bankruptcy laws to help stretch out his loan payments, or for whatever reason it was, helped him to restructure and come out stronger than before and he eventually paid all his debts. He certainly knows how to use the system.

When he talked about running for president in 2012 I thought please don't. He would be a side show and if he wound up splitting the Republican vote he would throw the election to Obama. After all he was just a RINO himself, pro-abortion, and dividing his votes and support between Republican and Democrat candidates alike. As it turned out it didn't matter. Mitt Romney ran such an inept campaign that he gave the election, which any competent candidate would have won, away to Obama.

When Trump announced this time I thought it was going to be a joke. His announcement speech was not polished. He sounded like a blow hard with no substance, who would stir things up and then go away. But he didn't go away.

In fact, he struck a chord with people who are tired of politically correct politicians with no guts, who surrender on issues every time the political correct police start criticizing and calling names. He called out the so-called conservatives who slaughtered the Democrats in the last congressional elections by promising to stand up to Obama and overturn obamacare, who have bowed the knee to the White House and done nothing. All of a sudden Trump was outpolling all the Republican candidates and even though his first debate performance was not stellar he is still leading the field. Not only is his candidacy not a joke, it's for real, and interestingly enough he's drawing the majority of his support from grass roots conservatives. He's wooing the base of the Republican Party, the Christians and the right wing, people who in the past would probably have been appalled by Trump's personal life and history.

But now it turns out Trump is not pro-abortion. The media gave him that tag and it stuck, but he claims to be pro-life and always has been. In Dubuque, Iowa, he said that the Bible is the best book in the world. Whether he has actually read it or not is a question because he has said he never asks God for help. One has to wonder if his sudden appreciation for the Bible is just a typical leftist style comment designed to try and fool the religious right the way Clinton or Obama would do. But actually Trump has been the most outspoken in defense of the First Amendment and against the increasing persecution of Christians in America.

Economics rules the world and Trump obviously knows economics, finance, and business better than the lawyer class of politicians and bureaucrats who run Washington, D.C. He knows how to grow the economy and bring jobs back to America and has a plan to do it. He has a common sense approach to world affairs. He wants to secure the border with Mexico, rebuild our military to a position of strength and respect on the world stage, and he wants to undo the idiotic, lunatic nuclear deal with Iran. He wants to win in the Middle East and he has a plan to use Middle Eastern oil to finance the victory. You don't hear anybody talking that tough about anything, not even the best of the Republican candidates.

Although he is not as smooth as Reagan, Trump is very Reaganesque in his positions and his approach. He's bold, confident, and not afraid to tell the truth about anything. He hears what middle class America is saying and is speaking to it. His style may be brazen at times, but he's connecting with people who are fed up with the childish, petty antics of political correctness, and do nothing establishment Congresses stuck in the muck of Washington politics and completely out of touch with most of America.

Critics say he is all over the place on issues with no plan and no experience in foreign affairs. They say he'll make the world a more dangerous place. You mean like more dangerous than it is now after seven years of a community organizer with no experience at anything?

The critics called Reagan a "cowboy," complained that he had no experience in foreign affairs and warned that he would start World War 3. Instead, Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. The same critics vilified Sarah Palin for not having the necessary experience even though she was the governor of Alaska, but they didn't bat an eye at Obama's non-record. BHO has surrendered the free world to Islamic terrorism by not taking a stand on any issue. The panty-waste milksop negotiation approach obviously isn't working. What we need is another cowboy in charge.

Personally my first choice in the coming election is Ted Cruz. He and Trump are on the same page or close on many issues. He has a much softer manner than Trump, but he is just as firm in his positions, and he is for the Fair Tax, which I prefer over Trump's Flat Tax plan. He's also a born again Christian, unafraid to publicly share his testimony, and most likely reads the Bible often. And honestly, any return of America to conservative ideals, such as what happened under Reagan, will be short-lived (as it was under Bush 1, which led to Clinton, which then led to Bush 2 and Obama) if there is not a spiritual revival to bring America back from the immoral abyss we are beginning to fall into.

I think, however, that this next election is so critical to our nation's survival that maybe what we need is an arrogant, boastful, big mouth who believes in American exceptionalism, is not afraid to preach it, who will govern by the rule of law in the Constitution, and has the spine and the chutzpah in foreign policy to put the world in its place while he rebuilds America to number one. One thing is for sure, nobody since Ronald Reagan has shaken up the American political scene like Donald Trump.

Tomfoolery, Craziness, and Cruel

Obama went to Kenya and even though he was warned ahead of time by the Kenyan government not to lecture them about homosexuality, he lectured them about homosexuality. Essentially he told them they needed to change their culture. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta then essentially told Obama to shut up. Gay rights are not a part of Kenyan culture and they are not about to change. (Polygamy and immorality are, but not homosexuality.)

Back in America at a Young African Leaders Initiative Presidential Summit in Washington, D.C. a reporter asked Obama about the African practice of killing people with albinism and harvesting body parts for ritual reasons. "My request to you is to raise this issue with the heads of states from African countries to bring these atrocities to an end, for the benefit of for us in this room, and our brothers and sisters back in Africa."

Obama replied, "That's tomfoolery. That's craziness. It's cruel." He encouraged the audience to resist such a practice because any tradition whether in the United States, Africa, or anywhere that treats people differently because of fear, ignorance, or because you feel superior is a bad tradition.

You mean like abortion?

The next day the next in a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood for the cold-hearted, money-making abortion slaughter house industry that it is was released showing a discussion with a Planned Parenthood doctor about saving the baby intact to harvest all of its parts. Obama's response? He defended Planned Parenthood. The illegal sale of harvested body parts caused the Justice Department to open an investigation ... not of Planned Parenthood, but of the people making the videos.

The head of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, said the videos show a "lack of compassion" ... by the makers of the videos, of course! The callousness of the doctors eating salad and laughing about buying Lamborghinis while discussing crushing babies in a way to keep salvageable body parts intact is so intensely vile that it turns any decent person's stomach. Lack of compassion? What about the child they are ripping apart and dissecting for financial gain? These people don't even know the meaning of the word. Not only do they lack compassion, they have no conscience.

Then Harry "the rat" Reid came out with the most moronic assertion of all. The Republican Party, he said, because they want to defund Planned Parenthood, "has lost its moral compass." Who is he to measure morality? The Left has no moral compass at all and hasn't had for a long time. We've heard it from Bill Clinton and we hear it constantly from Obama about our values and who we are. Values to the them means a lack of any guiding moral principle in life. Their values are perversion, hedonism, and a warped self-serving immorality that includes not only homosexual marriage but the ghastly, calculated murder of unborn infants, and by this latest video, possibly even live babies. When they talk about who we are, this is what they are talking about.

There aren't decent enough words to describe how decadent and sybaritic America has become. This is what you might expect in a barbarian, uncivilized, primitive culture hidden away somewhere in a jungle, and we've brought it home to roost on our civilized paved roads and air-conditioned buildings in our alabaster cities. The anti-God left and its media worshippers praise Richards for defending a "woman's right to choose." They call the most hideous assault on the most helpless of all people an act of courage and compassion. They call the most odious evil in the world good and then praise themselves for doing it.

Then empty-headed fools take to the streets to protest and call for the hanging of a hunter because he killed a lion in Africa that somebody had given a name. They complain about a flag because to them it represents a culture of hate and now all of a sudden it offends them, even though they've never been offended before. These same people have never shed one tear for 57 million aborted babies. Instead they equate Conservatives who are trying to protect life, one of the core principles of the Declaration of Independence, with Hitler and the Nazi party. You know, the ones who murdered six million Jews in the holocaust. Figure it out; America's abortuaries have slaughtered ten times as many babies as Hitler killed Jews. They have taken as many lives as were lost in all of World War 2.

Where will this put America at the bar of history? How are we as a nation going to answer to God for this wickedness? The Bible says that the blood of martyrs cries out to God for vengeance (Revelation 6:10). How much more do you think the innocent blood of babies destroyed in hideous, torturous abortions cries out? These are people. They are living human beings. Viability is not the issue. Babies in the womb are living, growing human beings. They are alive from conception. Science and technology have proven it true. There is no more argument about when life begins. The question for those who vote Democrat is how are you going to justify supporting a pro-abortion candidate and platform when you stand before God?

If we don't put a stop to this America will end up in the dustbin of history along with the USSR. How ironic after all that Vladimir Putin should call America godless and lecture Obama about persecuting Christians. This is the hope and change Obama has given us. It's tomfoolery. It's craziness. It's cruel. It will destroy us unless we change our culture back to our godly, Christian roots, and end homosexual marriage and abortion.