I'm voting for Trump, and am fed up with the others

Submitted by Michael S (United States), May 13, 2016 at 11:17

Hello, Jake.

I listened to the link you gave at

http://www.audreyrusso.com/Andrew_Bostom_0216_intro.mp3

and was truly shocked at the duplicity of Senators Cruz, Rubio and Paul -- who relinquished the requirement that the Senate approve by 2/3 vote any nuclear arms agreement such as Obama made with Iranians. With people like that defending the US Constitution, we might as well send the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders to fight our wars for us. I am amazed, moreover, that you, as a Canadian, showed more concern in this matter than our own Americans ....

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has opposed the Iran deal and all the shenanigans surrounding it; and since he was not a Senator (This has become a dirty word in the US) like Cruz, Rubio and Paul, did not have a hand in the treachery.

I am frankly disgusted with the whole lot of these Senators; and I hope and trust that Mr. Trump will completely ignore them in choosing his VP. I think Gov. John Kasich would be a good choice, from the little I know at the moment.

It continues to amaze me, what US Senators consider important "conservative" issues. Consider the following:

"WASHINGTON. A top adviser from Sen. Ted Cruz's defunct presidential campaign wants supporters to push a conservative agenda, including limits on the bathrooms transgender people can use, a fresh example of the headaches Donald Trump could face at this summer's Republican National Convention."

-- http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article76501657.html

I am a Bible-believing Christian, something that used to get me categorized as part of the "Religious Right". I suppose that I also fit in this category because I adamantly support Israel. I will say straitforwardly, however, that (1) though I believe life begins at conception, I do not believe abortion should be a Federal Government issue; and (2) I believe that putting signs on bathrooms should never have gotten past local ordinances. The fact that President Obama has stuck his smelly nose into these matters, is simply proof that the man has his head in the toilet; but it is beneath the dignity of the Senate to get occupied with such things, much less make them cornerstone issues.

In Canada, have you noticed that US Evangelicals support Donald Trump at about the same level as US Non-Evangelicals? Now you know why: Just because someone is a Christian, doesn't mean he's all-fired concerned about bathrooms and sex; the way PBS and our other media would like us to believe. We actually do care about other things; and for me, Israel "trumps" all others.

I wish this were also so with our Jewish friend, Daniel Pipes; but that's another matter. think you can mark the year 2016 on your calendar, as the year the "Religious Right" died in America; and this is probably a good thing. This might not seem a good thing for Israel, but I wonder. If I am to believe the media, the Religious Right controls the Republican Party; and the Republican Party controls the US. Why, then, are so many Republicans, both Evangelicals and Jews, so intent on biting and devouring one another, so little concerned with major issues such as Iran, and so concerned instead about hijabs and bathrooms?

Where are Cruz, Rubio, Ryan and the rest, concerning Israel? Why did our last sitting Republican, Evangelical, presumably Pro-Israel President make the division of Israel official US Policy, make the Israeli PM enter the Annapolis conference via the servants' entrance, and make another Israeli PM to look for vacancies in Waco motels while the Prez cooked a barbecue on his ranch for a Saudi? And now, they've given Obama carte blanche concerning Iran...

I give up. I'm voting for Trump, and am fed up with the others.

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