tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3122541377949770570..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: At This Point....Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-85240103333544651252015-09-16T09:03:30.306-04:002015-09-16T09:03:30.306-04:00Ecclesiastes 9
American King James Version
4 For...Ecclesiastes 9 <br />American King James Version<br /><br />4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. <br />5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.chasmatichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-24263246316161427292015-09-15T10:00:38.544-04:002015-09-15T10:00:38.544-04:00Clearly, anyone who as achieved the level of succe...Clearly, anyone who as achieved the level of success that Mr. Trump and Dr. Carson have achieved must (out of necessity) have a strong ego. Both of them know they're good at what they do -- they can't be otherwise. (I know I wouldn't want a surgeon digging in my brain who didn't think he was good at it -- and had the creds to back it up). <br /><br />Nor could anyone consider running for any sort of elected office do so without thinking he's the best for the job. <br /><br />That said, there's a difference between what I think is a healthy ego as demonstrated by Dr. Carson, and an overdeveloped ego as demonstrated by Mr. Trump. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of what Mr. Trump has to say -- and it is refreshing to see these thoughts presented forcefully. But I find his obnoxious brashness off-putting. Whereas Dr. Carson shows that he can be equally passionate about the issues without being bombastic.<br /><br />Sorry, but all of the other potential candidates (excepting Ms. Fiorina) are from the establishment that got us into the mess we're in. Maybe some, like Senators Paul and Cruz, are far enough from the center of it, but they're still part of the it. And I have zero trust and/or respect left for EITHER of the party establishments. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16445328419607697910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-21050575577719624102015-09-15T07:22:52.167-04:002015-09-15T07:22:52.167-04:00Great post. I too follow the Buckley principle, s...Great post. I too follow the Buckley principle, so Trump is not who I plan to vote for in the primary. However, the other GOP campaigns, including my guy, are dying a fast death as Trump has sucked all the oxygen from the room. Trump may get my vote in March only because he will be the last man standing.<br /><br />He may not be conservative, but he showed up to win. Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00097451556633262624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-66013703896006826092015-09-15T02:44:12.279-04:002015-09-15T02:44:12.279-04:00I mentioned in a comment on a different blog that ...I mentioned in a comment on a different blog that it is my understanding that Christian military chaplains are being gagged and otherwise harassed in favor of those who tend to their muslim and even Wiccan "flocks". Obama - self-promoted as supposed a Christian - cannot work up the least interest in the massacre of Christians in the Middle East and Africa. Militant atheists harass Christians who try to continue the traditions of even such barely denominational things such as Christmas wreaths, let alone manger scenes.<br /><br />As an agnostic, although raised as a Roman Catholic, it horrifies me to see Christianity so widely abused in a country born of Christians who were refugees from religious intolerance, a country where "In God We Trust" was such an important concept that it was struck on our currency.<br /><br />Like so many other aberrations perpetrated by the Left, the attack on the Judeo-Christian moral code, the successful (so far, at least) degeneration and acceptance of deviancy of moral behavior, and the replacement of true religious tolerance by an insistence upon "tolerance" of everything _except_ Christianity, is an obscenity that should cause even the non-religious such as I a feeling of outrage.<br /><br />How sad that we have come to the point where we would be happy to settle for a President who doesn't actually wish for our demise. We should NEVER have settled for a President who hates the very country that elected him - and then re-elected him, knowing he (taught for twenty years by "Reverend" Wright), and the steatopygous female he pretends to be married, to hate America.<br /><br />I fear that the mechanism of voting and the election cycle may be so well controlled by the Left that we may never see a free and honest election again, but if we are able to elect someone actually of our own choosing, it had better be someone like Trump or Cruz. Even though many may feel any Republican would be better than what we currently have for a President, you have only to look at Boehner and McConnel to realize that is not necessarily the case. I really don't believe a Bush or even a Rubio would improve things at all.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.com