All Melania had to add was “As Michelle Obama said so well 8 years ago … .” Perhaps the letter writer’s stance explains why our children, even those who attend college, can be poorly instructed and have ridiculous justifications of unacceptable behavior. The passages at issue were not a number of “short, generic phrases” but several sentences of the exact words. Look up the definition of plagiarism, and you will see that Trump’s address clearly fits the definition. I have earned a master’s degree in English and an MBA. The writer’s qualifications are the status as “a teaching assistant for seven semesters in graduate school,” but we don’t know what field of study. Yes, it was plagiarism, and it so easily could have been avoidedĪ July 21 letter writer asserted that Melania Trump did not plagiarize Michelle Obama’s endorsement of her husband in 2008. He will win re-election in 2018, and will continue to be a national political force, but perhaps not in a Trump-led GOP. Wrong by a long shot, but it may indicate a more permanent GOP fissure that sees the emergence of a separate, conservative party during the 2020 election cycle.Ĭruz is a Texan, and his independent nature is a major draw for him to Texas voters. Republicans who are hand-wringing as a result of Cruz’s nonendorsement of Trump suggest that Cruz’s career is over. I’m not a big Donald Trump fan, but Ted Cruz’s petulance, in light of the overarching importance of this election, is extremely disappointing to many Republicans. The future of our country - that there is a good chance that a Democrat president will lead us down a path of repressive federal control over our lives (in his opinion), that our rights to defend ourselves via the Second Amendment will be threatened (in his opinion), that a Democrat president will substantially alter the makeup of the Supreme Court in a liberal way for decades (in his opinion) and that a corrupt federal bureaucracy will continue on, without being held responsible for its biased and unaccountable rulings - is being abandoned because of personal slights? Now, Cruz claims he is withholding his support of Trump because of insults directed at his father and wife. Cruz did lie about his eventual support of the Republican candidate and Trump in particular. I cringed when Trump started calling him “lying Ted.” But, obviously, Trump understood something about Cruz’s leadership characteristics that none of the rest of us did. I was an early supporter of Cruz and contributed to his campaign. Cruz promised to support the Republican-nominated presidential candidate in general, and Trump in particular, when the eventual winner was still in doubt. It turns out that Trump was right, after all. There are more important things in life than party politics and getting re-elected - it’s called integrity. We are witnessing the party’s last stand and the disaster it’s in right now couldn’t possibly happen to a more deserving group of people.Ĭruz may be the least-liked senator among his peers, but by not endorsing Trump he demonstrated an authenticity and honesty that is seriously lacking among most of our politicians on both sides of the aisles in Washington, D.C., and St. Allegiance to a celebrity, certainly not allegiance to principles, not to ideals, certainly not to the greater good. Allegiance to an “R” next to people’s names. I, like others, saw his speech last night as a self-serving kickoff for his 2020 campaign.īut when you have one self-serving egomaniac standing in front of a crowd to essentially say, “Vote your conscience, vote what you believe, don’t just blindly vote for someone because of the party listed next to his name on the ballot,” only to receive a look of death from the egomaniacal nominee of the party loyalists booing the idea of voting for what you believe in? That’s the Republican Party in 2016. I have never heard Cruz stand up for any principle I agree with him upon. I’m not sure the current state of the Republican Party could have been summed up better than by Ted Cruz’s speech, the deafening boos and the glare worth a thousand words from nominee Donald Trump.
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