The Race to the Glue Factory

This last few weeks have been quite revealing. The controlled opposition nature of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has been distilled into a clear liquid. The only problem with that liquid is that it’s poison to conservative activists and the prospect of reigning in an out of control bureaucratic state. All a garbage Republican politico has to do now is paint some MAGA slop over their doorways and the angel of political accountability will pass them over. 

In a world where Congressmen, like Chip Roy and Bob Good, are seen as bad people for not kissing the ring, people like Elise Stefanik (Should be D, NY) are seen as leaders. This can’t be allowed to continue if we wish to see any sort of actual American revival. 

It’s now easy to see why the electoral cancer that is Donald Trump has gained traction over a competent and effective leader, like Ron DeSantis. The vast majority of Americans don’t want to be citizens. They want to be zoo animals or pets, for lack of a better description. Throw them some food and give them a few toys and they’re happy. Covid proved this to me. People don’t understand that the cheese in the trap is there for reason. 

On the political right of today, few are interested in doing hard things, like running a campaign on issues and policy points or actually answering questions from voters (paging Nikki Haley). Heaven help us if we want a competent ballot chasing operation like the Dems have. Trump has enough name ID to get himself and a few establishment wing nuts over the line in primaries, but when it comes to general election outcomes, the GOP is a disaster because of the stink that is transferred from the former president to anyone he’s associated with. Ask Kari Lake what the Governor’s Mansion in Arizona is like, if you don’t believe me. Just because you win a primary doesn’t make you a good politician. It means you found enough people to buy into your male bovine excrement to fill in a bubble for you in a low turnout election.

With no plan on how to run a competent presidential campaign in the face of 91 criminal indictments, I fear that the down ballot consequences of this shortest primary cycle in history will be disastrous. The Republican National Committee is essentially broke, while the DNC is flush with cash and a readymade slew of opposition ads in the can. All they have to do is have someone read Trump’s Truth Social feed on TV and any Democrat with a pulse will beat him. The GOP also has no ballot chasing enterprise in the works. Organizations, like Toilet Paper Turning Point USA say they’re going to step in, but I don’t expect people used to grifting to be able to run a competent ground game. The DNC is well seasoned in areas where the GOP is nonexistent.

We can likely forget holding the US House. With a multitude of resignations and retirement announcements, the GOP House majority is cooked. A toothless new Speaker is doing them no favors, either. We have to concentrate on keeping the few great members of the House in their seats. I think of three, specifically. Chip Roy, of Texas, must keep his seat. His voice is the most important one in DC. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, must be defended at all costs. He has a Trumpcult nut running against him in the primary. I urge everyone to go to his website and pitch in a few bucks, as I have already done. The last one is the new chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Bob Good, of southwest Virginia. Trump’s merry band of circus freaks have stood up a primary challenge to him. We need to help him retain that seat. After these, you do you on supporting individual congresscritters (as Chip Roy calls them). We need these three voices in the US House. 

In a year where the Senate map should be favorable for Republicans, I can’t see any outcome better than a 50/50 draw. The only sure pick up I see is in West Virginia. Sadly, the likely winner of that race is very likely to the left of the Democrat vacating the seat. Ohio and Montana should be easy pickups, but with the top of the ticket being a mess and the proven over performance of Dems in suburban areas, I wouldn’t bank on any other GOP pickup. One notable senator who is in trouble is Ted Cruz, of Texas. He is within the margin for error of both of his serious Democrat challengers. The Senate is irredeemably broken and a 50/50 split is actually closer to a 95/5 left wing majority. I will keep an eye on Michigan if Justin Amash chooses to run. I have no Senate race to vote on in my state, so I have no dog in this fight. 

While all of the above may seem like I’m in doom and gloom mode, I can say that I’m at peace with this election cycle. While I have no one to vote for this cycle at the top of the ticket, this makes it 16 years without a general election presidential vote for me, I see glimmers of hope at the state level. Texas has passed a few good reforms and it looks like Dade Phelan’s political future is on life support. Ron DeSantis, back in Tallahassee, has chosen to step right back in as the leader he’s always been. Iowa is seeing forward progress with this legislative session. Kim Reynolds is stepping up to defend sanity on several social issues, including working to break the gender cult in Iowa.

On the national electoral front, the 2028 presidential election starts the moment the race is called this November, especially if one of the two octogenarians is still taking the oath of office in January fo 2025. I’m not so sure that the Dems won’t replace Biden with someone who can walk in a straight line and read off of a prompter, but that is more likely to happen after his very likely reelection. The more the race is about Trump’s personality, the better for the Dems. 

Many people in the political realm call what I just wrote about a horse race analysis. In this case, the horses are on their way to the glue factory. I just pray the nation isn’t in tow. 

Enough!

As many of you may, or may not know, my life has been changed greatly over the last year. Much of this has been due to my church and the people I've met through this church. My friends have had a great effect on me. I see the world as a place to serve others, rather than only myself. I have found joy where none existed before. God is always good. One thing that has greatly increased in me is my sense of the amazing differences God bestowed upon each one of us. No one is the same and there are some differences that God intended us to respect. First and foremost of those is the respect a man should have toward a woman(any woman).

A little background before I go any further. I have never been one to have many female friends. That has changed over the past year. The ladies in my church are great. Several I consider to be good friends. This has changed my perspective, mainly because many of these women are godly and respectful. They honor God and respect the word of God. When you see ladies like this in everyday life, a new respect for women is developed.

I think some blame can be placed for the moral sewer we are in right at the feet of the feminist movement over the past 50 years, downplaying the inherent differences between men and women. Men have gone from cherishing women to competing with them. I don't think this is the way God intended us to live. Before you decry me as a misogynist, I believe, as the civil law says, all people are equal before that law. Also, before you get mad, realize that I am advocating that men honor women and women respect men. Both sides have much to work on because our culture has muddled what it is to be a godly man and a godly woman to the point that this aspect of life is almost unrecognizable. Boys need to be raised to be godly men and girls need to be raised to be godly women, and until we get back there, this will continue. It's taken me over thirty years of life to realize this.

Now, to the meat of my message. I am tired of people who, for many years and decades, have hammered the left(rightly so, I might add) for being anti family and anti Christian and anti morality and now have gone all in for Donald Trump because they are afraid of the bogeywoman Democrat running for president. I know Hillary Clinton is a disaster and she will likely be an enemy of the church. Ask anyone who knows me and they can tell you how much I did to try to prevent the scenario we're facing right now. Nearly 10,000 miles traveled and thousands of doors knocked on will attest to that point too. I've been in this fight for quite some time.

Fast forward to today and people I once respected and looked to for moral guidance have left the Christian movement high and dry. People like Franklin Graham, Dr. James Dobson, and Tony Perkins have flushed their ability to speak to issues of morality and biblical sexuality down the drain. How are we supposed to be able to advocate for marriage being a forever promise between God and our prospective spouse when people the same people who told us that for years are now covering for a man who trades in his wives when they get too old, like a wealthy man does with his cars? Michael Farris, who has been instrumental in the homeschool movement and was a founding member of the "Moral Majority" in the 1980's said this,

 "The premise of the meeting in 1980 was that only candidates that reflected a biblical worldview and good character would gain our support.

Today, a candidate whose worldview is greed and whose god is his appetites (Philippians 3) is being tacitly endorsed by this throng." 

I couldn't agree more with what Mr. Farris said. The Christian right has become what they railed against for so many years.

When people, who have made it their business and their mission to speak up for traditional values, throw their credibility away for political expediency, we know they have bought into what Satan peddles. No one is righteous before God, but we must try to be. Giving in to a disgusting man, like Donald Trump, because of a fear of his opponent shows a stunning lack of faith in God. A phrase my pastor used several months ago keeps coming back. So many people are trying to "put God in a box".

On October 7th, when I first saw the piece about Trump's hot mic comments regarding how he treats women, I told some friends of mine, but I wouldn't even send the article to my female friends. I did send it to their dad and let him know what I thought so that he could inform them, but I wasn't going to subject them to that kind of filth. I couldn't bring myself to do that. Fast forward to just last week and a piece by Nancy French in the Washington Post,

"Republicans who have lamented the Clintonian proclivity to malign women are now defending the same activities because … well, they idolize power or their own strategic cleverness. Trump, like the preacher, is too important to abandon. We have become what we said we despised."

I was in tears by the end of this piece. I want nothing to do with a movement or a party that will excuse one vile and awful person just because the other might be worse. I can't do it. I have screwed up many times in my life and I've paid a price for doing so. Relationships have been harmed. I was on the wrong path. I've found my way back, thanks to God working through so many good people and lots of personal reflection and prayer. I don't want to go back to the path that isn't from God's word.

Shortly after reading that piece, Nancy's husband, David French, released this piece in National Review,

"I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”"

David French and his wife, Nancy, adopted a child from Ethiopia. He was a subject of scorn and ridicule for this because a sizable minority of Trump supporters, Trump's cult, if you will, think this is disgusting. We have to push back against this type thinking. Enough is enough.


As I read an email from a friend of mine last night, her work and her words rang true. She is burdened for two young ladies in the community she is staying in who have an abusive and immoral father. She's trying to combat what so many "evangelical" leaders are now excusing as locker room talk. She is reaching out to young women in a different country, trying to help them overcome what society has become. She, through the Holy Spirit working through her, is doing what we all need to do. We need to readjust our focus from a purely political and worldly focus to one of reaching the lost for Christ and then helping them to walk the path laid out for us in the word of God. This friend has reminded me of that calling and I think we all need a reminder, from time to time.

Stop making up excuses for evil! Stop making up excuses for fearing man! Fear God and speak the truth in love! Jesus still saves and God will still be in control on November 9th, just as He is right now.

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"I want to ask the men leading the GOP some questions. Why didn’t you defend women from this raging sexist especially after so many Republican women — for so many years — eagerly defended the party from charges of sexism? You must make us out for fools."

"Only 9% of Americans chose Trump and Clinton as the major party nominees. The one is a repeat donor of the other. Trump endorsed Hillary Clinton over both John McCain and Barack Obama in 2008. He has given to her campaign repeatedly. He defended Bill Clinton in the 90’s against Paula Jones, et al."

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My experiences over the last 9 months of this campaign season have been well documented on this blog. I've been all over the country and especially, Southeast Iowa representing principles I found in a candidate running for President of the United States. Many voters agreed but a large plurality didn't and Donald Trump is the presumed nominee for the Republican Party in this fall's election. This is my party getting off point. I attended my final Republican Central Committee meeting on Monday. After I was told by nearly everyone in the room to put aside my principles and "get on board the Trump train", I'd had enough. I requested time and was granted it. I spoke up. I told them that I could, in no uncertain words, support Donald Trump or give credence to his supporters. I explained how I'd seen so much all over the country. Here is what I posted to Facebook after coming home.

"Tonight, I attended my final Johnson County, Iowa Republican Central Committee meeting. I can no longer be associated with a group tasked with electing Donald Trump. 

I spoke before the committee telling them of my convictions and concerns. I didn't hold back. I didn't parse words. I referred to my faith and the fact that Donald Trump was unrepentant and in using Christianity as a tool for his gain, was a blasphemous man.
After the meeting, I was besieged by half of the group and yelled at and one little old lady, my guess is she is around 80, screamed at me, "What makes you so holy?!" She continued, "I've been a Methodist for 53 years and I know I'm a good Christian!"
I replied, "I'm a dirty sinner saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. If you died today, do you know where you'd go? Would you go to heaven?" 
She was dumbfounded. Nobody in her church had ever asked her to take Jesus Christ at His word."

This post has become the most interacted with post I've ever done on Facebook. I was thinking it wouldn't matter but to just a few local Iowans. I was wrong. It's been shared all over the country in the circles I happen to have a bit of influence in.

The evening disturbed me, for their sake, but it also helped me grow. All but a few people at that meeting were hostile to my remarks. Many are just Republicans because they've always been Republicans. Their hatred for Democrats has impaired their abilities to hold anyone with an R behind their name accountable. It is quite apparent that change in the party will not come from within, but from people leaving and taking their principles with them. 

This is really the crux of the issue. The false religion people have bought into has become my greatest pain. This final meeting as a member of the party turned my attentions completely toward more eternal goals. My involvement in politics will be limited to very special candidates worthy of extreme efforts and worthy of asking my friends to get on board. Sure, I'll continue to vote, but our nation's ills won't be cured until our nation get's on the side of Jesus. Our continued slide toward complete debauchery and moral relativism has led us to accept anything from anyone who has the ability to grab headlines, regardless of their wickedness or depravity.  

If someone were to ask me to describe myself with adjectives, I would say this; I am Born Again Christian American Conservative...full stop. Notice, there were no party identifiers. Unless the delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland choose to form a barrier, to be a remnant, if you will, and deny Donald Trump the nomination next month, my divorce from the party will be permanent and complete. 

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On a final, more personal note, I ask you to join me in praying for my friends, the Bontrager family, as they get ready to leave tonight on a seven week music mission tour of the Northeast US and eastern Canadian Provinces. I have seen them touch so many lives(mine included) that while I'm disappointed they are leaving Iowa and I won't be able to sit amongst them in church and adult bible fellowship, I know they are doing God's work and helping people to know Jesus in a more personal way.

Below, you'll find my email sent to the secretary of the Johnson County Central Committee. 

Johnson County Central Committee members,

I can no longer, in good conscience, be a member of the Republican party. I resign my position immediately on Johnson County Central Committee. The hatred and vile attitude of Trump are sweeping the party nationwide. I cannot be apart of anything associated with Donald Trump. My faith informs me to eschew wickedness and choose good. Donald Trump's bigoted comments about an American citizen this week, who happens to also be a federal judge adjudicating his fraud case, are just more evidence that he is manifestly unqualified for the highest office in the land. I will actively work against Donald Trump this fall. I also will advise people to not vote for Hillary Clinton. I hope this presidential election has the lowest turnout in modern history. The Republican party deserves to feel the brunt of this. They are partially to blame for the rise of a populist nationalist movement behind Trump. Make no mistake, this is a progressive movement, with elements of fascism seeping in. They've stopped advocating for conservative policies and principles. I will vote for only bonafide conservatives with a record to back their claims. No more campaign conservatives. I look forward to opposing anyone associated with Governor Branstad in the next gubernatorial election here in Iowa in addition to working against Donald Trump. Our politicians must be held to higher standards than they currently are.
You will likely see me outside of the GOP and Democrat offices this fall telling people about their choices and why they should turn away from both this November. A gospel tract will likely be my literature.
The reasons I am set so strongly in my principles are Biblical in nature.

Daniel 9:14   Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Proverbs 29:2   When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. 

Ezekiel 18:24   But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 

Luckily, Jesus delivered those that call upon his name.

 John 3:15   That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 

  John 3:16   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

  John 3:17   For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

  John 3:18   He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

  John 3:19   And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 

  John 3:20   For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 

  John 3:21   But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 

  John 3:22   After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 

  John 3:23   And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 

  John 3:24   For John was not yet cast into prison. 

  John 3:25   Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 

  John 3:26   And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. 

  John 3:27   John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 

  John 3:28   Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 

  John 3:29   He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. 

  John 3:30   He must increase, but I must decrease. 

  

Romans 8:1   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

  Romans 8:2   For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

  Romans 8:3   For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 

  Romans 8:4   That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

  Romans 8:5   For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 

  Romans 8:6   For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

  Romans 8:7   Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 

  Romans 8:8   So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 

  Romans 8:9   But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

  Romans 8:10   And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spiritis life because of righteousness. 

  Romans 8:11   But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 

  Romans 8:12   Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 

  Romans 8:13   For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 

My efforts will be focused on eternal truths and not the ways of the world any longer. This is why neither Hillary or Trump are worthy of the vote of any born again Christian.

Thank you and God bless,

Matt Wells

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The Indiana Primary

I spent the weekend working on the ground in suburban Indianapolis for the Cruz Campaign. I love this work. It was the most personally meaningful weekend of campaign work that I have ever done. More on that later.

An Indiana roadside strategy meeting of Cruz Crew members from all over the USA.

My seat of the pants assessments have been correct, so far. After working in Wisconsin, I felt confident and we won. After working a day or two in Kansas, I knew we would win and we Cruzed (I had to go there). I was confident in Iowa too but I knew half of the crew of thousands of volunteers and all of the staff in the state, so my internal gut check poll was spot on. On the contrary, after experiencing the hate and bigotry of the south, I was confident that they would ride the wave of unprincipled Trump support. I was correct in that assessment too. 

This all leads me to Indiana. My seat of the pants estimate is similar to Wisconsin. The poll numbers are all over the place. I'm not entirely sure what good those polls do. Some have Cruz up big, some show the same for Trump and one puts the race in a statistical tie. Put them in a blender and you come out with a tie. I think this is where our vaunted ground game comes in. We have what no other Republican has ever had. A true nationwide network of people that will drop everything and go anywhere to help Ted Cruz advance principles of limited government, strong national security, economic growth and personal freedom. Jobs, Freedom and Security. 

Proper literature placement is critical

The addition of Carly Fiorina to our campaign has energized many younger voters and was met with a good results when talking to most voters on the ground. She seems to do well among younger women especially and among people who actually pay attention to the direction of the country and want to fix what's wrong generally. Those who just want to tear things down(read Donald Trump supporters) couldn't care less.

It has become clear to me that the majority of Trump's support is not rooted in anything but moral bankruptcy. There is a general malaise in the country that Trump tapped into. I understand that part. This is where I may make some people mad. I think many people are leading such morally bankrupt lives that Trump makes them feel OK about their own situations. They see Trump as being this vulgar but strong figure that will push away any vestiges of moral society, thereby allowing them to continue in their sin filled ways without feeling any judgement or justice. It truly is a cult. No amount of evidence presented matters to them because they don't care about evidence or facts. Only Trump can solve. (I almost broke my own fingers as punishment for typing that last sentence).

Yesterday, in my Adult Bible Fellowship class in church, we talked about compromise. Compromise is a tool of the devil. I've known that in my core for many years. It has taken this election cycle to hone that knowledge to the point where I had to use it to cut through the mess that is the Trump cult. To compromise on deeply held, bible backed principles is sin. To engage in moral equivocation is sin. To let morally bankrupt people lead you astray is not biblical. Trump supporters must be called out. If I was being led astray, I would hope one of my friends would step in and steer me back in the right direction. I know my pastor would. 

When talking to Trump supporters, I always try to ask them why they support the con man Donald. Many respond with trite things that are more akin to what a cultist might respond with when defending their cult leader. When challenged to defend themselves in a meaningful way, they lash out with physical actions like door slamming, threats, vile language or lies. There is a manifest evil that has crept in. I know that the word evil is rarely used in modern society because it conveys something that is not talked about much but it must be applied in the case of TrumpCult.

Perhaps the greatest evidence of this evil showed up this weekend. I have a 14 year old friend who was a part of the group that I was door knocking with that distilled Trumpers, as he calls them, to their essence. He walked up to me after a particularly rude and hateful Trump supporter slammed a door in his face and said this, "Why are they so evil? Why are they so wicked?". I wish I could give him a concrete answer. His answer was correct. He said. "They need Jesus." To that, I can only add an Amen.

Indiana, you can be a firewall for liberty and decency. Stand up to the Trump cultists. Stand for what is right. Choose the light over the dark. Choose moral uprightness over moral bankruptcy. Choose good over evil. Choose Ted Cruz over Donald Trump. 

PS: I want to thank Marlin, Mitchell, Denver and Taylor Bontrager for all of their hard work over the weekend. It didn't seem like work to me because I was doing it with people that I've grown to care about and that share the same spiritual and patriotic goals as I do. Here's to another weekend on the campaign trail with friends.

At the taping of the Cruz/Fiorina Townhall in Indianapolis(to my left, your right, were Taylor, Denver and Marlin Bontrager)

Mitchell was in line to ask a question but they ran out of time

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Why I Can Never Support Donald Trump

You all know who I support for president. Ted Cruz has been my chosen candidate from the first time I met him. I gave the others a chance and no one else speaks for me the way Ted Cruz does. He is morally clear. He is consistent. He is a Christian man who doesn't mock our Risen Lord. He embraces his faith and when he quotes from the Bible, you know that he knows what he is talking about. Ted is also a constitutional scholar. He uses the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the basis for all of his policy arguments and standpoints. He has fought to hold up our natural rights and he acknowledges that our rights don't come from man, but from Nature's God. He's a pretty easy guy for me to support. I've been pouring all of my efforts into his campaign since September. He is everything that Donald Trump is not. Follow along.

Donald J. Trump. I'm to the point now that the even his name makes my skin crawl. As I delve deeper into Mr. Trump's past, I keep finding more things that raise huge red flags.

Donald Trump supports "touch back amnesty". He has said that while he wants to deport all of the illegal aliens currently residing in the United States, the good ones would be back "very" soon. What is the point of deporting them to their home country if you are only going to let them come back "soon". Ted Cruz has never supported citizenship status for those that have entered out country illegally. Rule of law matters.

The issue of illegal immigration is the Donald's central issue. It seems like he could, at the very least, be more coherent on the subject.

Now, to the pet crony corporatist issue in my state of Iowa. Iowans have been led to believe that they aren't able to provide from themselves so government must mandate that corn ethanol be used in nearly all gasoline sold in the United States of America. There are many arguments for and against its effectiveness as an internal combustion engine fuel additive. I don't care about those. I care that the market is being artificially propped up by government. Ted Cruz wants to phase out the requirements over a five year schedule but he also wants to remove the current regulatory hurdles that plague all facets of the US energy industry. He also wants to do away with all preferential treatment for any and all segments of the energy industry. This would effectively reduce the power of lobbyists in Washington DC and even here in Des Moines. I'm all for it. Don't believe me, check this out.

The Donald, on the other hand, has seen this as an issue of political expediency. He never said a word about ethanol until Ted Cruz started to pull ahead in Iowa. It was then, he decided to kiss King Corn's ring and wed his corn silk like Combover to the Iowa branch of the Washington Cartel. Add to that, Sarah Palin's rambling endorsement of the Donald after also endorsing the worst Republican governor in the United States, one Terry Branstad, over a good man in Bob Vander Plaats and you have a full blown establishment cabal on your hands. Oh, and Branstache's son, Eric "I never met a government program I didn't like" Brandstad, works for the crony corporatist lobbying group, Americans for a Renewable Future. Ain't corruption and nepotism grand?

These are only just a few of the reasons from the domestic policy angle on why I think Trump is just as dangerous as any Democrat. In fact, I don't see a real dimes worth of difference in the two. National Review agrees with me.

Here's where it become personal to me. I know Ted Cruz. I've spent more time in Iowa with Ted Cruz than anyone except his national staff and the Iowa campaign director, Bryan English. I've been to almost every corner of the state with him. I know his father. I've met his wife, Heidi. I know he misses his daughters when he is on the campaign trail. I would crawl over broken glass with a knife between my teeth for this man.

Donald Trump's personal attacks on Ted Cruz are beyond the pale. To randomly attack someone's faith when you, yourself, can't even quote a verse from the Bible printed in front of you is disgusting. To parade your Bible like it is a prop is even more disturbing. To those of us Christian believers that are saved by grace through faith in a Risen Lord, Donald Trump's words are empty and even blasphemous. He's free to use such language but he must also be held to account by Bible believers everywhere. To see the difference in how Ted Cruz sees his faith, click here.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect to Donald Trump's belief system is his acceptance of abortion. He says he doesn't like the practice but in a 1999 interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press, he said he was very pro choice, even to the point of allowing partial birth late term abortions. The procedure is so barbaric that it makes me sick to my stomach. Donald Trump is at peace with abortionists delivering a nearly full term baby to the point of being next to completely outside of the birth canal and then sucking the infant's brains out. This issue is enough for me to never, and I mean NEVER, support Donald Trump. As you may know, I am the uncle to a preemie nephew. I wrote about my personal pro life story here.

If Donald Trump had demonstrably come to a new found faith in Jesus Christ and repented from his sins (he says he doesn't need to), then I would believe him when he says his views have changed. Since the Bible says in Matthew 7:20   Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. I know that I've changed since rededicating my life to Jesus. There is no evidence of the same in Donald Trump. If he fell to his knees and asked for God's grace through Jesus Christ, I would happily welcome him into the faith and I would consider his new found "religion" a positive. Until that point, I will consider him to be someone outside of a true relationship with Jesus. Rather than giving Donald Trump credence in this presidential race, Christians should focus on praying for his soul, that he might be saved.

Lastly, I'll leave you with this verse. Proverbs 29:2   When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Let us turn away from our wicked ways and elect a good man for the highest office in our land.