PIERS MORGAN prefers Trump over Cruz...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-means-it.html
Some highlights.
Cruz
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... Cruz who is equally loathed by colleagues on both sides of the Senate for his abrasive ‘outsider’ onslaughts against pretty much everything federal government stands for...
His astonishing, and scary, ambition manifested itself publicly in 2013 when he threw one of the great tantrums in U.S. political history over Obamacare and successfully managed to shut down the government for 16 days. A self-aggrandising stunt which temporarily put 800,000 Americans out of work and cost the U.S. economy $22 billion...
...Cruz is not, as many believe Trump to be, just pandering to the hard-line Conservative right in America, he IS the hard-line Conservative right in America; a brutally ideological zealot who wants to drag his country kicking and screaming back to the very dark days of bigoted fear and hatred of government....
Hated by both sides of the Senate? Check.
Hatred of federal goverment? Check.
Actually tried to stop Obamacare? Check.
Wants to return us to a Constitutional government? Check.
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He repeatedly claims that more guns mean less crime, despite all statistical evidence to the contrary. In fact, he's so gun-mad, even by Republican standards, that he makes breakfast for his family by wrapping pieces of bacon around a machine gun.
He denies the very existence of man-made climate change.
Supports guns? Check.
Not a tree hugger? Check.
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But Trump, at his heart, is a businessman.
He’s spent his life doing deals, often taking extreme starting positions – whether he’s buying buildings or golf courses, or haggling over a TV show salary - to secure leverage and then negotiating back to a more reasonable place.
He’s been adopting the exact same strategy in this presidential race – to great effect.
The presidency is just another deal to Trump, albeit the biggest of his life.
To win the White House, he has to first win the Republican nomination, and he’s calculated that the best way to do that is to hammer away with tough-sounding messages on hot button Conservative issues like Islamic terrorism, immigration and abortion.
It’s undeniably made him sound at times both racist and sexist, neither of which I have ever heard him be in the ten years we’ve been friends.
But I suspect everything he’s been saying is negotiable, from his Mexican wall to short term Muslim ban.
And Trump? EVERYTHING is negotiable.
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Whether you love or loathe Trump, ask yourself which is the more dangerous potential leader for America right now: a ‘deeply principled’ right wing evangelist lunatic who means exactly what he says, or a pragmatic extrovert businessman with a big mouth whose whole career has been built on compromise?
It physically pains me to say this, but Peirs is right. Cruz is a deeply principled conservative who means what he says and Trump has no principles and will compromise anything.
Liberals hate Cruz more than they hate Trump. I have had many personally tell me as much. If there were no other reasons, this one alone would be enough for me to support Cruz. But there are other reasons, the most important of which are the guy is a principled conservative that believes in small government and is extremely pro gun. That, to me is far more important than supporting an unpredictable yet entertaining blow hard for no other reason than the guy is making a mockery of the screwed up election process.
