We are an exceptional people and made so because of the founding fathers and the framers of our constitution …

Our constitution and the rule of law is the only thing that makes our country exceptional, provides for the advancement of civilization, and keeps the animals who want to destroy our nation and kill us at bay. When correctly implemented, both the Constitution and the rule of law provides a degree of safety, both to the citizens who obey the law and for those who are charged with a crime.

Within our constitution and the rule of law is an exception to the type of routine civility that we expect to find in our nation. An exception that is necessary to keep those who would destroy our nation and kill our citizens at bay. This is the law of war. Unlike our enemies who answer to no laws and have no constraints on their wanton attacks on people and property, we function with a set of formulas that define who were are as a people and the limits to which we can go in our need to protect ourselves.

The law of war is unlike the law demanded and practiced by law enforcement. Whereas, law enforcement protects the general good order and welfare of the population by protecting the administrative infrastructure, it is reactive. That is, law enforcement investigates criminal activities after the fact and with the sole purpose of apprehending those responsible and bringing them before the bar of justice when they will be held accountable for their crimes and punished suitably.  However, the law of war is proactive, killing people and destroying property to prevent a greater evil from descending on our nation and its population. War is brutally savage and ugly. Innocent people are maimed and killed, some dying horrible deaths for actions they did not commit. Collateral damage it is called when a person is in the wrong place and the wrong time and war rains down upon their head.

Our enemies are among us and working against us …

Unfortunately, our enemies have discovered that our constitution and rule of law can be used against us; providing aid and comfort for our enemies while they prepare to strike us both here and abroad. Facilitated by “useful idiots,’ so named by Russia’s Joseph Stalin because these people do not perceive their furtherance of evil and condemning innocent and worthy people to injury or death.

It has been said many times before, there is nothing in our constitution that turns it into a suicide pact. There is nothing standing between good and evil but men, not simply of good intentions, but men with the willingness to name the enemy, confront the enemy on their own lands, and to eradicate the enemy from the face of this Earth.

But, they are prevented from taking unilateral action by enemy agents and their useful idiots in positions of power. These people manipulate the media to paint a false Orwellian narrative that is meant to convince “We the People” that evil is good and good is evil. It is can be suitably demonstrated by looking at terrorism around the world and hearing our President, Barack Obama, declare Islam is the religion of peace and the terrorists are not practicing Islam. To the contrary, the terrorists represent the purest form of unadulterated Islam as defined in the Quran – demanding that there is only one belief and those who are unbelievers be given a choice: conversion, servitude, or death. Again, observing the world around us, we find that even Islam is harsher on those of the faith that do not believe as they do, the apostates, and should be singled out for torture and death even before the unbelievers.

The existential threat the cannot be denied …

We are facing an existential threat that goes beyond all history and represents death and destruction on a biblical scale. That is, we face a nuclear holocaust, or a biological threat that may mutate into an unstoppable plague. Measured against these two catastrophic weapons, we find that chemical weapons are almost acceptable. Again, some of our leaders deny the observable truth. Whether they do this for personal ego, gain, or a legacy, is immaterial.

You cannot make a deal with the devil …

We have heard much about the need to negotiate, to seek accommodation, to build a consensus, and to accept compromise. But how do you compromise or even communicate with a fanatical enemy that will say or do anything to build weapons of mass destruction and then unleash them on an unprepared and unprotected populace? How do you allow law enforcement to react to such a grievous and traumatic injury> The answer is you do not compromise and you do what you must to keep your country and its people – and by extension our allies – safe and secure.

Bottom line …

If you haven't noticed or even considered it, the sad truth is that politics has turned into a profession, where money and power has become more important than the oath the politicians swore to uphold. Gaining and maintaining money and political power has become more important than our nation, its constitution, the rule of law, and the freedom and liberty that were born of this new nation.

The reason I have decided to back Ted Cruz is because he is not a deal maker. We have seen how he is hated by the establishment and the opposition for refusing to bow to compromise and go along to get along. Standing firm against the opposition, from across the aisle and from the leadership of his own party, as he fights for what he believes: the United States Constitution and the rule of law. He fights for his constituents and does what he promises. He is not, as one politician put it, malleable.

We cannot afford a criminal communist nor can we afford a malleable dealmaker who may simply sell out his country due to ego or ignorance.

We are about to lose our country to our enemies. Allowing the next President of the United States to pack the Supreme Court with ideologues who will forever change our nation in ways that may be reminiscent of the fall of the Roman Empire.

There is ONLY one person who has the personal values and ability to be our next leader. And, yet he is being vilified by all sides in their attempt to continue the fundamental transformation our nation. YOU DO NOT SEEK TO FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM THAT WHICH YOU LOVE AND RESPECT!

I beg you to reconsider all of those who are running. I suggest that Ted Cruz is the only one among them that is both capable and worthy of the Presidency. Anyone else and we are playing Russian Roulette with our lives and those of future generations. We have seen what a communist in the White House has done to our nation. This unconstitutional lawlessness must end in November.

Do not let those who have died to protect our nation and its people be forgotten, they did not die in vain so our nation could vanish in the sands of time. Do not let those who stand vigilant to protect us, here and abroad, be slandered and mocked for their service to us and to humanity. We are not a perfect nation nor a perfect people. But we certainly enjoy the most perfected form of freedom, liberty, safety, and security the world has known. Why people are willing to risk their lives to leave their countries and to enter ours, not vice versa.

If you listen to any candidate other than Ted Cruz, you would believe that our nation has lost its nobility and we need to seek a different political system; most likely the one that has failed each time it has been tried and has unleashed totalitarians and their unspeakable actions on an innocent population.

As I have said before, we are so screwed.

God Bless America.

-- steve