I lived in Michigan for a lot of years. I can remember times when the water level in Lake Michigan was so low that “experts” were predicting it would never recover. I can remember later times when water levels in Lake Michigan were so high that the same “experts” were predicting massive damage to the shoreline. History has a way of repeating itself. Just a couple of years ago, Lake Michigan water levels were low, only this time it was represented as proof of global warming. Of course anything that happens is presented as proof of global warming. Now we learn that, gasp, Lake Michigan water levels are high again and guess what is happening to the shoreline?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/10/great-lakes-go-from-climate-change-induced-low-water-levels-to-record-highs-in-3-years/

There are few things in the word that are easy to predict, but this time it is pretty easy. Within a short period of time, we will see a report in the New York Times explaining how global warming is causing record water levels in Lake Michigan. Governor Brown, in California, will use this information to pass some new carbon tax to help fight global warming. This is easy to understand for those of us who used to live in Michigan and now live in California. The first time we saw the Pacific Ocean we went: “huh?”   Looks a lot like Lake Michigan. Jerry is easy to confuse.

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The State of California has now decided that you have to be 21 before you can smoke cigarettes or even e-cigarettes.  They are also banning cigarette machines entirely, except for adult only locales.  I actually don’t mind this change.   One of the things I like about California is the anti-smoking laws.  It is nice to be in a state where you can safely go out to eat without have to endure second hand smoke from inconsiderate smokers.  In addition, I know too many people who died at an early age because they couldn’t or wouldn’t stop smoking.  The problem is that the same people who are passing this regulation are seriously considering legalizing marijuana.  I have tried to come up with some explanation for the logic behind this obvious contradiction when a vision came to me after I was bumped into by a sixty year old hippy looking guy wearing a “Feel the Bern” hat.  The people passing these laws are all Democrats.  They don’t want people to smoke, because that increases the cost of health care. This is the same logic that made some of them try to ban McDonald’s Happy Meals.   But, while marijuana is obviously at least as dangerous as tobacco, this guy reminded me of an importance difference between tobacco and marijuana.  Someone who smokes marijuana is far more likely to vote for a Democrat.  Suddenly it all makes sense, if liberal Democrats are actually capable of logical thinking in the first place.

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I am feeling lonely and abandoned.  All around me I see massive efforts to end discrimination.  People are literally rioting in the streets because “Black Lives Matter.” North Carolina is threatened with massive boycotts and even a DOJ lawsuit for daring to say that men’s rooms are for men and women’s rooms are for women.  I mean come on, it’s not like people have been doing this for a couple thousand years.  Don’t they understand?

Yet, the most discriminated class of people on earth, bald men, continues to be ignored.  The Bible provides important information about how God feels about bald jokes:

2 Kings 2:23-25

And he [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, ‘Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.’ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. And he went from thence to Mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria”

I am not suggesting that we routinely kill people who tell bald jokes, but God has clearly spoken on the subject. This year, in the ultimate display of discrimination, every single candidate for President had hair.  Some were partially balding, but they were quickly eliminated.  The presumptive winner, Donald Trump has spent a fortune on his “full head of hair” look.  Do you think he would have gone to all the trouble and expense if he didn’t think it mattered?

I think bald men and those who believe in basic human kindness should unite behind the following principles.

• No more bald jokes.

• Bald men should receive free hats.  We could call them Obama hats, or perhaps Donald hats.

• Bald people should be allowed to use a separate line at any sporting event to prevent spending too much time in the sun.  Trust me; a sunburned scalp is no joke.

• There should be a new Ken doll, one with no hair.

• The portraits of the founding fathers should be altered to remove the wigs so that we could see their bald heads.

• The Bald Eagle should be renamed the American Eagle.

• Barbers should be required to give bald men a 50% discount.

• The government should fund hair transplant therapy.

One final thought.  Lately there seem to be a lot of men who actually have hair, but shave their heads to obtain the “bald look.” That may seem logical to some of you, but think about this.  Would you tolerate someone who used a wheel chair pretending they cannot walk?  Would you tolerate someone wearing black face to pretend they are african american?

Would you tolerate a politican who claimed she was Indian, even though she isn’t, just so she could get preferential treatment?  Would you tolerate a man pretending he thinks he is a woman so he can use the woman’s restroom?  Oops.  I guess we are required to tolerate that.  What was I thinking?

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It is officially over.  Ted Cruz has bowed out of the race for President.  That means Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.  I am sure Trump supporters are celebrating.  Ted Cruz was not the only loser in this race.  I am not distressed that Ted Cruz is not going to be the nominee.  That really didn’t matter to me. I am actually angry with Ted Cruz for failing to win this election.  There was far too much at stake.  The problem is that Donald Trump is an unmitigated disaster.  The only thing more frightening then Donald Trump losing to Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump getting elected President of the United States.  Donald Trump has defeated Ted Cruz.  That does not make Donald Trump any more acceptable as a candidate for President.

Ted Cruz went on a rant yesterday.  It was a huge mistake by a desperate candidate, definitely a world class case of sour grapes.  It was partially fueled by Donald Trump’s insane accusation that Rafael Cruz was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald.  Unfortunately, it also sounds an awful lot like the truth:

He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And he had a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook. His response is to accuse everybody else of lying. He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying, and it’s simply a mindless yell. Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen. 

Cruz went on to predict that Trump will betray supporters on every issue.  We better hope Cruz is wrong about that, but I fear that Cruz nailed it.  Donald Trump has openly admitted to contributing millions of dollars to politicians in exchange for political favors.  He may even rival the Clintons in terms of pay to play corrupt politics.  At least the Clintons hide what they are doing because they know it is wrong.  Donald brags about it because in his demented world, nothing he has ever done is wrong.

The RNC is now calling on people to unite behind Donald Trump.  Good luck with that!  I suspect there are a lot of people just like me.  We can’t imagine voting for Hillary Clinton, but we also can’t imagine voting for Donald Trump. Spare me the nonsense about how failing to vote for Donald Trump is voting for Hillary.  Neither of them deserves to win. Both of them deserve to lose.  The problem is: we lose either way.  I predict a world class case of buyer’s remorse, sooner rather than later.  In the meantime, I am just going to sit this one out.

I will do some things.  For the time being I am just going to turn off Fox News and CNN and put the TV on mute whenever I see, hear or read anything about the election, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. I will, instead, find other things to write about.  How about those Giants!

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Many people believe that Stephen Hawkins is one of the most brilliant people on earth.  That is why it is fascinating how he displays his own version of circular reasoning:

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the Universe created itself…Time itself must come to a stop.  You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.  We have finally found something that does not have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.  For me, this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.  Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything…So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.  Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.  It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.  The Earth is a sphere.  It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”

In his desperate attempt to disprove the existence of God, the smartest man on earth has fallen into the trap of circular reasoning.  The reality is that even if one believes in the Big Bang, it does not solve the problem because something had to have existed or there is no explanation for the Big Bang itself.  It is ludicrous to argue that time did not exist before the Big Bang.  That is actually Hawkins coming up with nonsense to explain what he admitted he could not explain.  Actually, Hawkins himself made exactly that point in the following quote:

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.  What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?  The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.  Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It is interesting and comforting to note that at the end of the day, all science really knows is that there are some questions for which science has no answer.  Those who choose to believe in God have a lot less difficulty in understanding the universe.  As to searching for the edge of the earth, that is actually quite easy.  You just need to look up.

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It is important for each of us to understand what is truly at stake in this election. It should be obvious to everyone that the liberal left wants to control every aspect of your life. A classic example of that is the ridiculous response to the North Carolina bathroom law. None of this was necessary. Let’s be blunt here. I worked in San Francisco for years, and it should be no surprise that there are more than a few transgender people there. For years there was no ordinance addressing this issue and there were no problems. No one was assigned to stand in front of public restrooms patting people down to see if they are in compliance. I am absolutely certain that transgender people used restrooms, no one noticed and no one cared. But this was not enough for the liberal left. They require you to adopt their world view. This has nothing to do with discrimination, other than to discriminate in favor of LGBT people. It is the polar opposite of tolerance. Here is the wording that the City of Charlotte felt was so awful:

Sec. 12-59. – Prohibited sex discrimination.

(a) It shall be unlawful to deny a person, because of sex, the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a restaurant, hotel, or motel. (b) This section shall not apply to the following:

(1) Restrooms, shower rooms, bathhouses and similar facilities which are in their nature distinctly private.

(2) YMCA, YWCA and similar types of dormitory lodging facilities.

(3) A private club or other establishment not, in fact, open to the public.”

The State of North Carolina responded by passing a law basically saying to use the restroom consistent with your birth certificate. The result was a nationwide hissy fit by the liberal left. There are numerous threats of boycotts against North Carolina as if this is the crime of the century. Sadly, Donald Trump quickly jumped on the liberal left band wagon. If anyone honestly believes that Donald Trump will not kowtow to the liberal left, you better check this out:

North Carolina did something that was very strong and they’re paying a big price. And there’s a lot of problems.” Trump said. “Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they’re going through, with all of the business and all of the strife — and that’s on both sides — you leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic punishment they’re taking.”

Trump went on to say that he opposes the idea of creating a new, third bathroom specifically for transgender people because “that would be discriminatory, in a certain way,” and because “it would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country

Among other things, Trump didn’t do his research. It wasn’t North Carolina that wanted to change things; it was the liberal left that intimidated Charlotte into passing that ordinance.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand does not bow to political correctness:

“The country has “gone off the deep end” over the issue of transgender bathroom use. As you know, my daughters are 5 and 8. My 5-year-old knows the difference between boys and girls,”

“That’s not a reasonable position, it is simply crazy and the idea that grown men would be allowed alone in a bathroom with little girls — you don’t need to be a behavioral psychologist to realize bad things can happen, and any prudent person wouldn’t allow that,” he continued. “And it is only the lunacy of political correctness, ESPN fired Curt Schilling for making the rather obvious point that we shouldn’t allow grown adult men strangers alone in a bathroom with little girls, that’s a point anyone who is rational should understand.”

If we elect either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to be the next President of the United States we are going to see more and more of this crap. If anyone thinks Donald Trump will stand up to the liberal left, they might want to do a little research.

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I have spent a lot of time in New York and as a result New York values are pretty obvious to me.  Both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have it part right and part wrong.  Cruz describes New York values as the liberal positions taken by the Democrats currently running New York.  Donald Trump describes New York values as the fireman responding to 9-11.  Both opinions are based on facts, but neither accurately explains  New York values. There is definitely are New York values that affect how New Yorkers view the world and how they make decisions.  That was on full display yesterday.  New Yorkers all know the words to ”New York, New York” and this reflects their true value structure.  They love their city, they think it is the center of the universe and if someone succeeds any place other than New York, it doesn’t matter. They view everything and everyone from New York as bigger than life and certainly far more important than anyone from anywhere else.

New Yorkers will always go for “somebody” rather than “nobody.”  If the “somebody” is from New York, nothing else matters.  Donald Trump is “somebody” and he is from New York.  Ted Cruz is “nobody” and he is not from New York.  Nothing else matters.  Hillary Clinton is “somebody” and she is from New York.  Bernie Sanders is “nobody” and he is not from New York.

Donald Trump had a great win in New York and it may give him momentum that sweeps him to the nomination.  It may not.  If Trump starts behaving like an adult, he could win.  If he keeps talking about ‘Lying Ted” and insulting people, not so much.  He would be smart to ignore Cruz, but I don’t think he is capable of that level of self-control.

It really depends on three states, Pennsylvania, Indiana and California.  If Cruz gets wiped out in Pennsylvania the way he did in New York it will be hard for him to recover.  But if Pennsylvania is even close and Cruz wins in Indiana and California, which is more than possible, he is the one likely to win the nomination. It is a lot like sports.  Timing is everything and peaking too early happens all the time.  If Trump does not have enough delegates to win on the first ballot, then all the delegates will focus on the second ballot.  If Cruz comes in having won a lot of states and has just won big in Indiana and California he is going to look like he is peaking at the exact right moment.  The early wins by Trump in January and February and even April will fade into oblivion.

This means, that California is very likely to be the state that decides the Republican nomination.  The Trump campaign knows that.  The Cruz campaign knows that and the main stream media will eventually figure that out.  The Calfornia Primary will be held on June 7^th.  Brace yourselves, because we about to be invaded with wall to wall campaigning.  We will be inundated with political ads at a level never seen before.

As for now, there is a significant chance that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.  Few people have actually heard Ted Cruz speak other than in 30 second responses asking stupid questions during poorly coordinated debates.  His message has been drown out by the non-stop free media coverage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Very few people even know Rafael Cruz exists, but it turns out he has a lot to say.  Following is from an interview by Ted Cruz’s dad.  Are you sure he got this wrong?

“Liberalism is not the answer and neither is Donald Trump.  We need to realize that we are in the problems we are today because of all these corrupt politicians.  We don’t really need a deal maker.  We are where we are in American today because of all the corrupt deals that have been made behind closed doors at the expense of the American people and Donald Trump represents the other spectrum of that.  Donald Trump is one or one of the ones that has been funding all these corrupt politicians.  He is the other end of the corruption.  He is the ultimate crony capitalist.

We don’t need a deal maker.  We don’t need a bully.  We don’t need another imperial president like we have today.  We need a statesman.  We need someone that will take American back to the Constitution, to the rule of law, to limited government.  We need, more than anything else, we need a servant of “we the people.”

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By all accounts, Donald Trump is supposed to win big in New York next week. One would think that he would be happy looking forward to a great victory. But he isn’t happy, instead he is whining about Ted Cruz stealing votes in Colorado and complaining that the entire Republican establishment is trying to block him. I wonder what, exactly, he is trying to accomplish here. His primary message, in addition to being generally pissed off about everything is that he is a winner and he wants American to win again. Somehow this whine act seems inconsistent with his image as the world’s best negotiator and the big winner. Winners don’t blame other people for losing. In some cases, his whining is simply idiotic. For example he is complaining because Ivanka and Eric Trump can’t vote for him in the Republican Primary in New York. The reason they can’t vote for him is: BECAUSE THEY AREN’T EVEN REGISTERED TO VOTE. Seriously? Someone needed to explain this to them?

But, the more important question is why now? I could understand this if he was plummeting in the polls, but the opposite is true. He is leading in New York, Pennsylvania and California. If he wins in all those states nothing else matters. Maybe he knows something we don’t know. Maybe he is seeing some scary poll numbers.   But, at least to me, once again it sure looks like Trump is deliberately sabotaging his own campaign. He is a lot of things, but dumb is not on the list and this is dumb. Perhaps I am reading this wrong, but just maybe Trump wants out, but he wants an excuse so he can say “I could have been a contender, but I was robbed.” Then he goes back to his old life. One thing is sure, the networks are covering the “Whine Festival” big time.

Incredibly, the way things are going this year; this may backfire and actually increase the chance of Trump getting the nomination. It would be the ultimate irony if it turns out that the most effective strategy for winning is trying to lose.

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Several years ago there was a very funny movie about a Broadway show called “Springtime for Hitler.”  The accountant for a producer figured out that if someone could develop a Broadway show guaranteed to fail, they would actually make more money than for a successful show.  The decision was to develop a Broadway show guaranteed to be a major flop.  They hired the worst possible screen writer to create an idiotic script.  They retained the most pathetic available director and selected the most incompetent out of control actors available.  At first the audience reacts with outrage, as expected, but then someone starts to laugh.  The worse the show gets, the more people laugh and the more popular it becomes.  It ends up becoming an enormous hit, which creates huge problems for the producers who end up going to jail for fraudulent financing.

Sometimes it appears as though the 2016 Presidential race is a spinoff of Springtime for Hitler.  How else could anyone explain the following cast of characters other than as a silly plot designed by a maniacal producer determined to create a flop?

The leading contender is Hillary Clinton; an aging has been who never was. Sometimes it is hard to believe she is a real person.  This is a feminist who only achieved fame and power by marrying a serial philanderer.  She has a life long history of telling outrageous lies so transparently false that it is sometimes hard to restrain the giggle factor.  Every time anyone was stupid enough to follower her guidance the result was unmitigated and catastrophic failure, from Hillary Care to Libya.  The majority of people in her own party don’t consider her trustworthy and there is a significant chance she will be indicted for gross negligence with regard to protecting classified information.  That of course, has no impact on the many pundits who consider her to be the odds on favorite and by far the person best qualified to be the next President of the United States.

Her opponent is Bernie Sanders, a wild-haired 74 year old socialist who isn’t technically a Democrat.  He is drawing enormous crowd by resurrecting silly socialist propaganda proposing policies that have failed all over the world.  No serious person, in either party, believes there is any chance he can deliver 10% of what he promises because there isn’t close to enough money.  No one living person can remember a single thing Bernie Sanders has done that could remotely be classified as an accomplishment.

The leading Republican contender is an enormously wealthy business man famous for flaunting his life style of the rich and famous.  He is on his third trophy wife.  He has bankrupted four companies leaving investors drowning in red ink while he flies around to his luxury resorts on his enormous private jet. He is getting hours of free media coverage primarily by sneering into the camera with his smug red-faced bulldog expression while shouting insults that have put him in contention for the Guinness world record for insulting the most people in the shortest possible period of time.  The more outrageous the insult and the more childish his behavior the higher he rises in the polls.  Incredibly one of the richest men in the world has somehow convinced the blue collar workers he is famous for exploiting that he is on their side.

If you were a producer looking for the most ridiculous script and the worst possible cast of characters performing in a play managed by the most incompetent possible director it would be difficult to do a better job at depicting insanity than what we are seeing in real life during this election cycle. I sometimes keep waiting for the producer, or someone to burst onto the stage asking people if they are really buying this load of crap.  But, in real life, as in the movie, that would probably just make each of them even more popular.

The problem here is that if we are stupid enough to elect any of these clowns the joke will be on us.

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Up until a couple of weeks ago, Trump and most of the pundits expected him to win in Wisconsin, possibly putting Cruz away for good.  Kasich was expected to do well and this was expected to split the no-Trump vote.  Just tonight, Bill O’Reilly said that he thought Cruz “might” win but it would be close.  It wasn’t close.  It wasn’t even close to being close.  The highest poll, prior to the election shows Cruz beating Trump 42% to 32%.  The average was Cruz 39.2%, Trump 34.5% and Kasich 20.7%.  One poll, taken over the weekend had Trump winning 42% to 32%.  The actual results were shockingly different. With 97% of the vote counted the results are: Cruz 48.5%, Trump 34.9% and Kasich 14.4%.  No one, and I do mean no one, was predicting that Cruz would approach 50% of the vote.

In addition, the turnout was at record levels, which was supposed to help Trump.  But, heavy turnout benefited Cruz, not Trump.

If you are wonder how bad it is, read the following excerpts from an e-mail send by the Trump campaign to the Washington Post tonight:

“Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet – he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump,”

“Not only was he propelled by the anti-Trump Super PAC’s spending countless millions of dollars on false advertising against Mr. Trump, but he was coordinating with his own Super PAC’s [sic] (which is illegal) who totally control him.”

This is nothing short of sour grapes by a sore loser.  But there is something else going on here that the main stream media has missed.  Ted Cruz has been in a lot of town hall meetings lately, where he had the chance to give long reasoned answers to difficult questions. If you have watched any of these, Ted Cruz has knocked it out of the park.  He is far more eloquent that his critics realize. Last night, there was an incredible exchange during a town hall moderated by Megyn Kelly:

First the question:

I consider myself a moderate Republican, and I’m pro-choice. One of my fears and concerns is that if you become president, you may make abortion illegal nationwide. So what’s your message to me and other women and men regarding that issue and that fear?

Cruz responded with the following:

My whole life I’ve been a passionate defender of the Constitution, and I think judicial activism is wrong. One of the worst things about the Supreme Court in 1973 stepping in and seizing this issue is it took it out of control of the people. It said that five unelected judges will decide this issue rather than 330 million Americans. I believe under our Constitution we have a democratic society and that if someone wants to pass legislation limiting or expanding abortion, the way to do that is to convince your fellow citizens to make the case at the ballot box.

“And my view, I’m pro-life,” he said. “I believe that we should protect every human life, and we should protect every life from the moment of conception.”

But Cruz added that he would not make abortion illegal because he believes the issue should be decided in the states, according to the Constitution.

Making the case “at the ballot box,” he said, is “ultimately the check for both your views and my views, that you’ve got to convince our fellow citizens.”

“But I think all of us should agree that it’s a much better system to have important public policy issues decided by the people, at the ballot box, rather than five unelected lawyers just imposing their views on everybody else,” he added.

He continued:

And I will say there is more and more consensus we are seeing on this issue, as we see, for example, people coming together to bar extreme practices, things like partial-birth abortion, where we’re seeing a large consensus of American people saying this practice is gruesome; it’s barbaric. It is my hope that we see people’s hearts and minds change, but this is an issue where it’s going to take time for people’s hearts and minds to change–that if you’re gonna change a major issue of public policy, the way to do so, I believe, is at the ballot box.

Cruz addressed the issue of pregnancy resulting from a rape – often held up as a necessary “exception” to laws that restrict abortion. He explained that, as solicitor general in Texas, he handled many cases involving rape. Cruz said he argued before the Supreme Court in defense of state laws imposing capital punishment for the worst child rapists.

“Rape is a horrific crime against the humanity of a person and needs to be punished and punished severely,” adding:

But at the same time, as horrible as that crime is, I don’t believe it’s the child’s fault. And we weep at the crime and want to do everything we can to prevent the crime on the front end and punish the criminal, but I don’t believe it makes sense to blame the child.

Kelly said some would say Cruz’s view would force a woman who had been raped to go through the trauma of carrying her rapist’s baby for nine months.

“You have to convince your fellow citizens,” Cruz repeated. “That’s ultimately the check of a democratic society, is you’ve got to convince 330 million Americans. And before Roe v. Wade, it was a question state by state, so here it would be a question for Wisconsin.”  “What should the laws be, governing abortion?” he asked. “If Roe v. Wade was not the law, it would be up to the people of Wisconsin to decide, and the people of Wisconsin might decide to allow some exceptions, to not allow some exceptions.”  “Everyone agrees you always want to protect the life of the mother,” Cruz stated.

He continued: “But if you trust the people – it’s one of the reasons why the Constitution and Bill of Rights can be such a unifying document and approach because ultimately the Constitution entrusts the people with making these decisions, not having them forced on us by unelected judges.”

 Even Ronald Reagan, the great communicator, was never capable of giving this kind of reasoned response to such a difficult question.  Most Republicans become defensive and fall into the liberal trap of focusing on the exception rather than the fundamental issue.  Others resort to trite sounding religious clichés.  Cruz did neither. He not only did not back down, he brilliantly focused attention back on the real issue which is whether or not we chose to value life itself and why voters, rather than activists judges should decide.  Ted Cruz is uniquely qualified to explain conservative positions simply and eloquently without becoming defensive.  It would be a huge mistake to underestimate this man.

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