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This weekend is a time of mostly caucuses rather than primaries. Today caucuses are being held in Kansas, Kentucky, Maine and Nebraska. The one primary being held today is in Louisiana. Democrats will be involved with the caucus in Maine tomorrow while the Republican candidates will be full tilt into a primary in Puerto Rico. Let’s look at what’s at stake today and tomorrow:
Kansas: Kansas has voted Republican since 1940, with just one exception when Lyndon Johnson was voted by them over Barry Goldwater. Trump is expected to win easily. But he doesn’t like caucuses and much prefers primaries. Whether he can win all forty delegates remains to be seen.
Kentucky: The polls again show Donald Trump as the winner, but Kentucky is one of those states that often sets polls aside. Forty-three delegates are at stake.
Maine: So much as happened this week that could change things. Maine hasn’t had a poll taken since November. If Trump wins Maine after Mitt Romney’s tirade against him, echoed by another tirade from John McCain, plus many news anchors painting him as the devil incarnate, Trump victories should be harder to come by. If he wins Maine, Kansas and Kentucky, he will prove once again that – at least so far – he is the Republican voter’s choice. Twenty-three delegates are up for grabs in Maine.
Louisiana: This is the only primary being held today. Trump has a large lead in the polls there and forty-three delegates are at stake. But what every political pundit is watching for today is to see whether he’s been hit behind the knees hard enough by the Karl Rove-ites, a highly biased media, and at this week’s debate the continuing Rubio/Cruz food fight against Trump for two full hours.
Ted Cruz has his best chance to win in Louisiana and Kansas. Donald Trump is already one ten states. If Trump wins all five states today it will most likely mean that his enemies have helped him win with their constant barrage. Tomorrow, Rubio is the favorite in Puerto Rico. He needs something on the board beyond Minnesota.
Hillary Clinton has already won seven states. If she could sweep the four southern states today and then carry Puerto Rico tomorrow, she will appear unstoppable. Sanders, nevertheless, may give her a real run for the money since he is favored in both Kansas and Nebraska.
When I was a kid, I loved cowboy movies. I must have seen 200 of them at least. That’s why it’s impossible for me to tell you the name of the Western I’m referring to. But I remember a scene where a handsome stranger walks into a saloon and a beautiful bar girl walks quickly up to him and warns him “You’d better leave. This is no place for a gentleman.” That’s exactly what Doctor Ben Carson must have realized as he suspended his presidential campaign yesterday. If you were looking for a soft-spoken gentleman, and a Christian, to be the next president of United States, he just left. Doctor Ben Carson announced that he was dropping out of the race while he was speaking to the Conservative Political Conference in Maryland.
Ben Carson had declined to participate in Thursday night’s Republican debate. Throughout the debates, he has been treated as a nonentity; given the least amount of time to speak, yet said some things that caused him to be declared the winner of some debates by news anchors because of his using memorable statements. His great sense of humor coupled with his frustration of not being asked questions by the moderators, caused one of the funniest one-liners in all of debate history. In the final debate in which he did participate, after not being called on for many minutes, the doctor quipped, “Would somebody please attack me so that I can speak!”
Carson moved to the front of of the pack early in the campaign but then folded. He was never able to get his momentum back and he placed no better than fourth in any state election held so far. The retired neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins prestigious Hospital is gone from the possibility of becoming our president in 2016, but he will now become the national chairman of My Faith Votes, a nonpartisan organization that exists to encourage Christian Americans to cast their ballots for Christians. The doctor may be gone from the campaign trail, but I predict he will be a voice to be reckoned with before this election is over.
Republican candidate Donald Trump said something in Thursday night’s debate that all of us should ponder. It’s a golden rule in the business world: “You have to be flexible because you learn”. Trump was saying that those candidates who never change their minds are like little boys who never change their socks or their underwear. To be fixated with an “I am right no matter what” attitude and to remain inflexible, means “My head is made up, don’t confuse me with the facts.”
Trump has changed his position from Thursday night until Friday on one subject. Thursday night during the debate, Trump said that he would wreak “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding on terrorists.” Friday Trump said “I… Understand that the United States is bound by laws and treaties. I will not order a military officer to disobey the law.”
Trump’s change of opinion should show American voters how Donald Trump thinks. He is a businessman, not a politician. Highly successful businessman seldom decide everything on their own. They surround themselves with highly gifted people who are extremely knowledgeable in any area that the businessman wants to seek out. Though his rhetoric may sound like he simply shoots from the hip, his final decisions are never based on knee-jerk reactions. That’s why, in the last debate, Trump said that he would be consulting with generals who understand the full battle situations in each warring country before he would make changes or move ahead in any areas that would affect Americans.
Ever see Shakespeare’s play Macbeth? At the very beginning of the play there are witches stirring a pot who are murmuring incantations and casting curses on Macbeth. Well, that’s happening in real life right now. Only the curses are being cast on Donald Trump, many from the most unexpected places. You may have wondered why Donald Trump skipped the highly conservative CPAC conference in Washington DC yesterday where other Republican candidates spoke. It was because the Donald found out that a group of Republican good old boys were going to get up and walk out when he came to the microphone. To think, that’s how the Republican leadership is treating their frontrunner is once again another sign they don’t want Trump no matter how America votes. They want the power to decide our next president, one who they can control.
All three other Republican candidates teamed up to verbally attack the absent Donald Trump and berate him before the CPAC crowd. He wasn’t running for president, Trump would have every right to sue the three for slander. But it isn’t just them. Everybody from Fox News to National Public Radio are poisoning the airwaves to try to stop the Donald. Washington is scared to death that our government under Trump will go through a greatly needed facelift.
Meanwhile, Trump was campaigning at the same time of the conference in Kansas, and last night in Florida.
And finally… This story has nothing to do with politics but it was too good to miss. Not everyone calls 911 so that they can get their pants on. But in Greenville, South Carolina, a two-year-old girl did exactly that yesterday. And 911 sent a Sheriff’s deputy to help her. The woman deputy describes what happened: “I show up and she comes to the door with her pants half on, saying she can’t get them on. So I sit in on the stairs and help her put her pants on. And then she proceeds to asked me to pick her up and hug her. It made my day.”
The two-year old, Aliyah Ryan, has a caregiver. But she was asleep when Aliyah woke up. When her mother get home, the caregiver told her “Oh, the police came today to help Aliyah put her pants on.” The mother responded “OH, okay.”
Imagine that you were a debater and the debate was being broadcast over international television. You and your opponent come onto the stage, but suddenly two other well-known debaters come on stage too. And when the debate begins, the two debaters to either side of you begin heckling you and denying everything you say. Meanwhile, the other debater has no one heckling him. The debate goes on for two full hours and you have a very hard time making your points because you are interrupted so often by the two hecklers. How would you look to those watching?
I’ve just described last night’s Republican debate. You would be Donald Trump. The hecklers who would also be running for president – Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio – who contradicted Trump time and time again, while, when he could get a word in edge wise, he showed them where they were wrong. To those watching the debate whether in the audience or over TV, the three candidates looked like they were having a food fight. And that’s why John Kasich could say at one point in the debate “I’ve been called ‘the only adult on the GOP debate stage”.
Put yourself in the shoes of Donald Trump. What would you do in his same position. Of course, Cruz and Rubio are desperately trying to climb with the voters so that one of them will be elected president. The real question is: Do they both have to act like barking dogs in order to do it? Could you stand on a stage in front of millions of people while two of them yelled in your ears while you were trying to talk? Ted Cruz went so far as to mock Donald Trump by telling him “Just take a deep breath Donald. Take a deep breath.” Cruz didn’t see that just one time, but on two different occasions. After the second time, Marco Rubio mocked “I want to speak when the yoga session is over!”
I started looking at the Fox News website following last night’s debate. It’s bylines were rude to only one candidate. It has banners like “Trump deflects Fox’s questions; rivals fail to capitalize in Detroit.” Here’s another: “A rattled Trump debates in Detroit: Kasich, Cruz, are nights winners.” And still another: “Trump shocks and entertains at debate. But are voters growing tired of the circus act?” Then I began looking at the other news sources. They are all attacking Trump. I don’t know about you, but it makes me angry when someone is picked on unfairly while others who were even more guilty get off Scott free.
At the beginning of last night’s debate, Donald Trump made reference to the crude remark Marco Rubio made to his rally crowd on Wednesday – a remark that I shared with you on Wednesday’s newscast, about the size of the Donald’s hands. But Rubio didn’t stop there. He very clearly pointed to below his own belt and indicated that Donald Trump had another part of his anatomy that was tiny. When Mister Trump made mention of the fact that Marco was wrong about both his hands and other parts, in interviews afterward among Fox news anchors, they blamed the Donald for making a crude joke last night. Marco got no blame at all for his crude joke that prompted Donald Trump’s response.
Bill O’Reilly made the remark following the debate that he has never seen anything like this in all of his thirty-five years in television news. I can extend that. I’ve never seen anything like it in my much longer lifetime. Whether Donald Trump ends up the Republican nominee or not, he is being unfairly treated by his two hecklers on stage, by the news anchors interviewing him last night, on many news channels and talkshows, and by much of the rest of the mass media. Why? Mitt Romney made it extremely clear today. Mitt, speaking at the University of Utah, sounded like he wanted to get into the food fight too. What needs to be understood is that Mitt Romney is now a Republican good old boy – a Karl Rove-ite – ready to play one of the dirtiest roles ever in the Republican Party. That group, with Mitt as their superstar, wants to replace Trump with Mitt at the Republican Convention in July. It is dirty politics at its very lowest and the only way that Donald Trump can be assured of having enough delegates by the time the convention comes, so that he isn’t replaced, is to win solidly for the next two weeks.
What the Republican leadership is proving is that they have absolutely no care at all about what American voters want to put in office. They want to elect someone they know they can control . You don’t matter to them, however you vote.
Today we received in the mail a letter from the Republican National Committee asking for a donation. They also asked for a stamp to be put on their envelope so that it would save them the money for that. Georgia wrote in the letter that she sent back to them “You won’t get a dime from me until you quit attacking Donald Trump.” Oh, and she didn’t put a stamp on the envelope, so they will pay for it. You don’t have to be for Donald Trump to do that. You just have to be for honest elections. I highly recommend you do the same thing the next time you get anything in the mail from the Grand Old Party.
I promise to keep you posted on all of this.
For now, there are several stories breaking this morning about the 2012 loser, Mitt Romney. Although he will not have appeared in any of the debates this year, Romney wants another try for the Oval Office while totally skipping the debates. Mitt’s closest advisers are working on changing Republican convention rules so that he can step in as the hero and send Donald Trump packing.
Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to lock up the nomination. Romney is absolutely dedicated to seeing but that never happens. Romney has already stated too that again he wants House Speaker Paul Ryan as his running mate again.
Yesterday Mitt Romney lashed out at Trump and urged voters to vote for anyone but him. Romney said if he were voting in Florida, he would definitely vote for Marco Rubio. Romney will not stop there, but you can count on seeing him say anything and everything to stop the needed delegates to vote for Trump. Mitt sounded like he was already pulling all stops when he said “His bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who worked for them. He inherited his business, he didn’t create it. And whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there’s Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump mortgage? A business genius he is not.” … For a different look at what Mitt Romney said, go to reachmorenow.com’s front page or Reach More Now YouTube’s playlist and find the latest Larry and Ray Show titled Donald Trump and the 2016 Campaign.
Until we Americans wake up and realize the corruption that is happening before our eyes, the corruption will grow worse and worse until our nation is destroyed. Mitt Romney proves the point. It’s way past time for all of us to open our windows and shout those words from the movie Network: I’m mad as hell, and I won’t take this anymore!” And for those of you who think Christians shouldn’t talk about what, just take a look at Jesus when he went into God’s Temple and overturned the money changers. Righteous anger is always right.
Since I’ve gone that far, if you watched the debate have you been wondering what that white spot was on Ted Cruz’s lip about twenty minutes after the debate got started? England’s newspaper says it came from his nose and that he ate it. Twitter has gone viral ever since. My favorite tweet was from a man named Dan Rollins who tweeted Donald Trump “Please remind Ted Cruz to say grace this morning. He clearly forgot to last night before he ate that booger.”
This is Ray Mossholder from the Reach More Now news desk in Fort Worth, Texas, with Campaign 2016. More by this evening. Until then, have a beautiful day.
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
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The very liberal New York Times’ headline says it well this morning: Trump Overwhelms GOP Rivals on Super Tuesday. And underneath that line was this one: Minority Voters Push Clinton to Victories Across the South.
Voters must have thought Super Tuesday was Black Friday because they came out in each state in numbers that were HUGE! If we follow that analogy, Donald Trump got the vacuum cleaner and swept up first place in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Ted Cruz got the lawnmower and mowed down Trump in the Lone Star State of Texas, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, and Alaska (in spite of Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump). … And Marco Rubio won a state, his first, from leftist Minnesota. Rubio needed that in order to still be considered for the three-man race that will be run in Florida two weeks from now. Donald Trump leads Marco by double digits in Florida today. Watch for Rubio to try to erase those digits with the Republican Karl Rove-ites getting in all the help that they can give him in the next two weeks. Trump is way ahead in the Sunshine state but it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Even before the Florida vote on March 15th, nine more states beyond last night will have already voted. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine will vote just two days from now on March 5th. Then three days later, on March 8th, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan and Mississippi, will cast their votes. Then four days after that on March 12th, Washington DC will get into the act. Just to round this out, when Florida does vote three days after that, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Governor John Kasich’s Ohio, will be voting too. By that time, the Republican Party should know who their presidential candidate will be. Many in the media are already declaring it will be Donald Trump. But their predictions go further. They are reporting that there easily could be a brokered convention that would replace votes by those who favor the Donald with an altogether delegates switching their votes. If that happens, how will you react?
The Afro-American vote, plus the Latino vote, gave Hillary Clinton victories in Texas, Virginia, and all across the South – Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie Sanders won in Vermont, the state he has been representing as an Independent Senator until turning Democrat to run in this election last year. He also won in Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, Colorado and Minnesota.
Right now the appearance is that the final race for the White House will be between Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Who would’ve thought it? And by the way, when CNN tells you that either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would beat Donald Trump if the presidential election was held today, please take that with a HUGE dose of salt. Realize ALL stops are now being pulled to cause Donald Trump to lose. That will continue until someone is nominated by the Republicans. Trumped up scandals, bare-faced lies, and spinning the truth on it’s ear, will come from newspeople that you generally trust, the lamestream media, and from some of the Republican elite who would tie themselves to train tracks if it would be sure Trump won’t be nominated. Some have already sworn to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump becomes their final presidential candidate because they know they all may be evicted if there is a President Trump. Everything you hear from now until the election about Donald Trump should be listened to or seen with a warning that forever is fixed in your mind “The story they are telling you has an extremely good chance of NOT being true.”
Hillary sounded ecstatic tonight as she said at her victory rally “What a Super Tuesday!” At another part of her speech, Mrs. Clinton said “It is clear that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower. Trying to divide America between us and them is wrong, and we’re not going to let it work. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in this together, my friends, and we all have to do our part.” Hillary beat Bernie last night in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie won in Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Bernie has sworn he will stay in the race all the way to the Democrat convention. But as of tonight, remembering that it requires 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has 1,001 delegates pledged to her, while Bernie Sanders has 371 in spite of how states have voted so far.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump held a press conference rather than a rally and changed his tone to one that was very presidential, answering the medias questions as best he could. There were no verbal attacks by the Donald. Instead, he congratulated Ted Cruz for his victories tonight. Surprising to some is the fact that Ted Cruz did not win the evangelical vote. That went to Trump. And the pundits favoring Cruz’ had predicted that many of the Southern states would have chosen Cruz at the end of the evening. But again they went strongly to Trump.
Now that Super Tuesday’s votes have been counted, remembering that it takes 1,237 delegates to elect a Republican as their official presidential candidate, there is still a long way to go. Right now Donald Trump has 285, Ted Cruz has 161, Marco Rubio has 87, John Kasich has 25, and Doctor Ben Carson has 8. What it means is that Donald Trump still needs almost 1,000 delegate votes to win. So though many political pundits are saying that Donald Trump has the Republican nomination all sewed up, that seems an exaggeration with so many states yet to vote and so many delegates still needed by him.
Another note: In spite of all the states Donald Trump won this Super Tuesday, he didn’t do as well as most polls predicted. And John Kasich gave Trump a real run for his money in Vermont where the two placed first and second. Is there a chink in Donald Trump’s armor? Time will tell. By the end of this month, whatever happens and if all is done fairly, we should know who the two are that will be running for president against each other.
And finally, on a totally different subject:
If you think you can trust a self–driving car to keep you accident free, well, think again my friend. You may not have heard about this, but the invincible Google and their invincible self driving car were partially to blame for an accident on Valentine’s Day – an accident not with another car, or even a truck, but with a city bus! Google now admits their cars have been involved in 17 minor accidents, but claimed none of them were their car’s fault. The city bus was in Mountain View, California, the home sweet home of Google.
The Valentine accident happened when their test driver, who was going about 2 miles an hour, thought the bus was going to yield and the car guessed wrong (can cars really guess?) Google reported that their car sustained minor injuries to its left side. The bus was going about 15 miles an hour and Google didn’t report how much damage was done do it. The accident is being listed as a fender–bender.
Google said its driverless cars have driven more than 1 million miles. They call it “autonomous driving”. After this accident, a spokesman reported “Since February 14th we have made changes in our software to avoid future accidents like this in the future. From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses and other large vehicles are less likely to yield to them than to other types of vehicles. ”
This is Ray Mossholder and I’ve got to tell you, cars that can guess and can understand, give me the willies.
From the news desk of Reach More Now in Fort Worth, Texas, I’ll be back with more reports from Campaign 2016 very soon.
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
The adventures of SUPER TUESDAY! Today will see the highest amount of states voting who will be voting during the entire 2016 campaign. Ever since the Republican debate, the father of lies has been super busy. Donald Trump has been by far the main target of attack. He’s now being called a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer because David Duke said he will be voting for Trump. Not endorsing him, but just like anybody else, voting. Ted Cruz has suggested the Donald might be a member of the Mafia. “Might be,” Ted said, without any real evidence at all. And here’s a biggie: Marco Rubio says Donald Trump has “small hands”. (That ought to stop Trump!) Like the gunfight at the O K Corral, Ted and Marco know that somebody’s going down and not getting back up. They are throwing pennies in a wishing pond and hoping against hope that it won’t be them.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, according to all reliable polls, is going to change the adventures of Super Tuesday into the adventures of Superman! He is ahead in the polls everywhere except deep in the heart of Texas. But it is not clear yet that Ted Cruz will win Texas where he served as their Attorney General. Though Cruz was born in Canada, many Texans do consider him a favorite son. If Ted Cruz doesn’t win his favored state or the nearby state Oklahoma or Arkansas, he will have the smallest chance among the gang of three – Trump, Rubio, and Cruz – to be the next president of the United States.
And Marco Rubio has to win at least one of the eleven states to be taken seriously by American voters. And if he doesn’t, the Republican Convention in July is predicted to be where the fireworks will blow the roof off. Billions of dollars – that’s “billions” with a B – are being gathered right now to force a brokered convention and elect anyone as the Republican candidate except Donald Trump. Marco Rubio didn’t just say that Donald Trump had small hands, he said Donald had “shrimp fingers” then followed that with a sharp jab below his belt, indicating that it wasn’t just Trump’s fingers that were tiny. His crowd laughed uneasily at that. But you can still bet on him because he is the good old boy’s poster child for president. And it doesn’t matter to them who you, as a voter, want in the White House. Like spoiled little brats, they have always gotten their way. Only you will decide whether they do this time. This is a great moment to call the congresspeople who represent you and let them know in no uncertain way who your candidate is and that it is “We the people” who are legally to decide who our next president will be, not party heads.
As for the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton is getting a fresh makeover, knowing that unless the polls are entirely wrong, she will be ahead in several states that will make her the odds-on favorite for Queen of the Democrats. Still, unlike Trump, Hillary will have scarcely any way that she could sweep the tables and win every state. It’s expected that Hillary will win states where there is a large population of African-Americans, and that Bernie Sanders will win states like Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, because of their large population of suburban and college-graduates. The women’s vote will be especially interesting to watch to see if Hillary really is most of their choice to be the first woman president, or if Bernie will sweep both the millennial’s, including the women’s vote too.
Another question that will get settled shortly after Super Tuesday’s votes are all counted tomorrow night is whether Doctor Ben Carson or John Kasich will drop out of the race. The possibility looms high that the two of them will end up fourth or fifth in every state. Behind them in the shadows stand the Karl Rove-ites who want both of Carson and Kasich to resign so they can then thrust Mario to the side of Donald, making it a two man race, unless Mario flames out now. If Super Tuesday ends up with Marco out of gas, Republican elites will possibly turn to Ted Cruz and offer him the crown. The trouble is, Ted Cruz is unpopular with the good old boys too. As Donald Trump pointed out in the last Republican debate, Ted Cruz is a senator and yet not one of their senator has endorsed him. He isn’t well liked by his peers.
Kasich pledges to stay alive in the race until he reaches his home state of Ohio. He intends to win that state on March 15th. Watch at that time whether Donald Trump, or whoever the final poster boy for the Republican good old boys is, comes second in Ohio. It’s a lot less funny to say Donald Trump has shrimp fingers than to consider assassination that is now being subtly suggested by the New York Times.
And as for Doctor Ben Carson, his soft-spokeness and gentlemanly ways are out of sync in 2016. Many are asking why, with all the troubles and election losses that he has had, he insists he’s going to remain in the race. He explained his reason in a letter that he wrote today which in his large and carefully chosen words says he refuses to be bought out by the good old boys. Carson realizes what a great change is desperately needed in our government that is so full of corruption it is rotting. It is his greatest pain. And he is SO right.
Doctor Ben Carson is Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University and through the years has won all kinds of honors for his extremely outstanding character. I’m going to conclude this newscast with a letter that I’ve mentioned:
It seems like the only thing that’s guaranteed in this year’s election is the litany of punditry after every primary. This undiscussed industry has helped make politics more blood sport than democratic exercise.
It seems to get nastier at every turn, as campaign flacks dressed up as journalists line up to savage candidates whose campaigns they see as a threat to their preferred politician. Some have even gone so far as to question my faith, integrity or party loyalty because I won’t kowtow to their demands to step away from the primary process.
Is this what has become of politics in the world’s greatest democracy?
Whether establishment or outsider, conservative or moderate, a cottage industry has arisen around gaming and controlling the primary process. And that business is booming.
Unfortunately, these pundits have gotten too lost in the gladiatorial spectacle to see what truly matters: the will of “We the People” of America.
With every call to drop out, pundits and political operatives salivate over polling percentages — as though the people they represent were commodities to be bought and bartered in the backrooms of D.C.’s exclusive political clubs. This mentality is driving voters away from the political system they have so long supported.
The commoditization of the electorate is precisely what drove me into this race. Hundreds of thousands of supporters drafted me to run, and hundreds of thousands more continue to push me onward. They do not belong to my campaign. On the contrary, my campaign is beholden to them. However, the gears that turn the political machine no longer recognize “We the People.” Instead they see a mass of voters to be prodded, lured or strong-armed into their camp.
Sadly, this juxtaposition of power isn’t just a product of election season, it’s the very nature of what our government has become, and what I intend to change. Career politicians are serving their special interests over the people who elected them, returning home often only to beg for money or votes.
I trust that the American people will soon wake-up and realize that leadership is not about how one speaks, but rather the life one leads.
My candidacy is about restoring the principles of self-government by running as a true citizen-statesman who is accountable to all and beholden to none.
A ballot cast for me is a vote for uniquely qualified and principled leadership; an innovative problem solver with sound judgment and solid plans for solving the myriad problems faced by American families and society; and a role model for future generations for whom the American dream needs to be restored.
I have run a campaign built around faith, integrity and common sense, because I believe that how we run this race is indicative of how we would run the country.
Despite what you may read in the media, millions of people have already stood up in agreement. This campaign has gained momentum, and I continue to be honored and humbled by the many people who put their faith in me.
On the day before the Super Tuesday contests — so far only four states have had their say in this election and just five percent of delegates have been assigned — I offer the people a different choice from the other candidates, one they deserve to be able to make for themselves, as they support the principles in which they really believe.
That is why I won’t listen as the pundits and politicians decree from on high. I refuse to play by Washington’s political rule book, or subjugate myself to the whims of the political class.
At times this decision has put me at a disadvantage, subjecting my supporters to underhanded tricks from other campaigns. No doubt my refusal to play the typical Washington games feeds into why so many D.C. pundits think I should leave the race.
Fortunately, it is not up to any pundit or political operative to pick our president. No matter how much they think they could do a better job than the American people, we know better, and they deserve better.
Our nation is best served when the people have free choice. If a reporter wants to change a person’s vote, they should give him or her a compelling reason, not take away their options.
It is a fundamentally undemocratic response to insinuate that people should be stripped of their choice “for the good of the party.” That’s why I’ve vowed to continue our campaign as long as we have revenue and support, until the people have decided.
It’s not vanity that drew me into this race. Like so many people across the country, my interest in this election comes from a deep concern over the future of our country.
It isn’t just the obvious problems that affect us all, such as education, our weak economy, our ballooning federal debt and our national security, including the expanding threat of ISIS. We must also be careful guardians of our liberty, fighting the influences of special interests and an entrenched political elite that believe they can decide elections for us.
The “Great Experiment” of American democracy has proven successful since our founding. Only “We the People” can ensure it continues to be so.
Many are starting to take a stand, refusing to allow the pundits and political class to continue to manipulate them, seeking instead to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.
Super Tuesday. This is a day that the Lord has made.
This is Ray Mossholder from the Reach More Now news desk in Fort Worth, Texas. If you are part of the eleven states affected by Super Tuesday, be sure you know who you’re voting for and why. Check it out with God. Then vote.
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