Choosing Trump or Cruz

I like Trump. I do. I love that he makes everyone I don't like absolutely crazy. Of course, I understand that's not enough to support him politically.

But there is ONE reason to. He seems serious about immigration. And if there is anything that will change our country beyond redemption, it is too many of the wrong kind of people.

I know, I sound like a 1950's Country Club snob, but I mean it.

There's a "type" that built America, and it isn't the "type" that comes here illegally and then leeches off the rest of us demanding we respect their culture and language and traditions and religions.

My grandparents & great-grandparents, respectively, were courageous people who left the land of their birth with little more than a suitcase, and traveled thousands of dangerous miles in order to MAKE a better life for themselves and their children.

They didn't expect to be supported by the State, didn't demand special consideration and respect for their cultures and languages, but rather wanted—couldn't WAIT— to assimilate into the American culture, and learned English.

They were tough, strong and brave. And they helped "build" America.

Exactly the opposite of the sort of immigrants Øbama the America-Hater wants to flood our country with now.

Unless we can stop this massive influx, our country will be stolen from us and ruined beyond recognition.

That is a strong reason to support Trump.

BUT, as much as I like the guy, Donald Trump does not seem to be for smaller, limited Constitutional Government. In this interview with "Field & Stream"  there's this exchange:

F&S: I’d like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there’s a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President?

TRUMP: I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land. And the hunters do such a great job—I mean, the hunters and the fishermen and all of the different people that use that land. So I’ve been hearing more and more about that. And it’s just like the erosion of the Second Amendment. I mean, every day you hear Hillary Clinton wants to essentially wipe out the Second Amendment. We have to protect the Second Amendment, and we have to protect our lands. 

Here's my take on what he said:  "I think the professionals in Washington D.C. will do a better job of managing the precious government lands than those hicks from the States. God only knows what they might do with it! They might even sell it if they need money."

Yeah, Donald, they might sell some of that land to private individuals (like Real Estate Developers) instead of having huge swaths of land in their States owned by the Central Government. Note the West is almost entirely government land. Check out this map. The RED is government land.

Some (like this map) foolishly call it "public" land. But it is "government" land into which The Public can only enter by government permission. Seems to me, whoever has control over the land is, in effect, the owner of it.

By extension, Trump appears to be perfectly okay with big government as long as it's "managed properly", as he proposes to do. As much as good management might make things somewhat better for a limited time, the size and power of our bureaucratic government can never really be made to function well, honestly, efficiently, economically.

Indeed, in many respects, as we have recently discovered, it functions criminally!

That's why it MUST be cut down to size. To Constitutional size and limited power.

Divesting itself of control over almost one half of the Continental land mass would be a good start!

Ted Cruz, let's be honest, is the only guy running, and maybe the only guy in Washington, who's willing, and capable of doing just that.

As Donald talks about "making good deals", the democrats and Republicans, are, no doubt, thinking, 'okay, maybe we can work with a guy willing to "make deals". We know we can't work with that lunatic, Cruz, who wants to take away all our perks and privileges and cash streams, and cozy relationships with crony-capitalists and lobbyists and special interests.'

I believe that Donald Trump loves America and want to fix/save it. But I think he is a product of his life experience...one in which good management of a company makes for a successful, prosperous business.

But the government is so leviathan, having a life of its own, that simple management from the top will never, indeed, CAN NEVER, make considerable enough an impact to make it run properly.

As President, maybe Trump will discover that. And that may move him into Constitutionalist territory. But there's no guarantee of that. And as my first choice, I'm afraid I have to go with the guy that already has that learning curve behind him.

I will certainly, and happily support Trump if he's the nominee. I believe in his good intentions, and his commitment to Make America Great Again.

But in the primary, I will vote for Ted Cruz, whose plan...not just his intentions...will indeed Make America Great Again.

/gun