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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Write in Ted Cruz 2016

I fully expect Ted Cruz to win the nomination. However, as the saying goes it is ok to hope for the best as long as you are prepared for the worst. So, if Ted Cruz does not win the nomination then I and the vast majority of my friends are going to be writing in the name "Ted Cruz". If you are a Christian you should also because of what it says in the Bible. Exodus 18:21 states 21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. That is a perfect description of Ted Cruz and as everybody knows does not in any way describe trump. If you are not a Christian then you should follow what Mark Twain wrote since atheists think that Mark Twain was an atheist. (He wasn't but that is for another day) Anyways, Mark Twain wrote (and if you want to get down to the meat of it skip to the last two paragraphs) --'In a republic, who is the country?
    Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the government is merely a temporary servant: it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. It's function is to obey orders, not originate them.
    Who, then is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it, they have not command, they have only their little share in the command.
    In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country: In a republic it is the common voice of the people each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
    It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians.
    Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
    To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
    If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of'."
  "Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. 
    This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world--
    --No,you move."

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