Sen. Jeff Sessions Endorses Trump

There he was, stripped bare and standing in the middle of the debate stage. Donald Trump was eviscerated in Thursdays debate. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz took turns pummeling the founder of Trump University with his own words, his own history, and delivering body blow after body blow.

I hear it all the time, and as quickly as I hear it, I reject it.

Ever since Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez shot and killed Kate Steinle on a warm July evening as she strolled along Pier 14 with her father, San Francisco's Sanctuary City policy has enraged swaths of the rest of America. Lopez-Sanchez, you see, had been convicted of multiple felonies and deported five times. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would have deported the Mexican national if he had not been handed over to the San Francisco Sheriffs Office on a decades-old marijuana charge.

When this election started what seems like a lifetime ago, I was contacted by the Bush people. After all, I had been a supporter of Bush 43 and one of his appointees.

Have you noticed? Marco Rubio plays every version of himself very well, with the exception of that New Hampshire stumble.

Whoa! Let me get this right. After Sunday morning, we now have a potential Republican candidate who is comfortable quoting the Italian dictator and ruthless fascist Benito Mussolini, one of Hitlers closest allies. Specifically, Trump retweeted a quote from the fascist dictator and said Sunday is comfortable being affiliated with that quote, and by implications the man.

I was going to write this column about slimy, venomous reptiles that are so frightening you would go well out of your way to avoid them. But I'm tired of the presidential campaign. So I decided to write about rattlesnakes instead.

Much will be written about the utter thrashing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump took at the hands of the far-more prepared, knowledgeable, qualified and otherwise principled Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio during Thursday nights Republican presidential debate on CNN. I will, therefore, focus, instead, on another Republican candidate whos absolutely got to go: Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

This week, Mr. Trump indicated that "One of the things I'm going to do if I win... I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money."

On Wednesday, Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times, set a new low for his liberal publication. As a supposed joke, Douthat tweeted that the best way to stop Donald Trump was to attempt to assassinate him. He said, Good news, Ive figured out how the Trump campaign ends, and included a link to a scene from the 1983 movie, The Dead Zone, which featured an attempted assassination attempt on a deranged political candidate who had visions of running for President.

When people think of landmarks in political history the Grecian Senate comes to mind, learned men debating in colonnaded halls of marble; Rome with its noble but contorted spasms of democracy, terminating in the butchery of mad and tyrannical Caesars; and, the golden experiment of the American founding, men of genius and faith who gave birth to a Constitutional Republic sublime in its balanced complexity and reliance on Divine principle.

If you are an evangelical Christian reading this, you base your life on principles. Your guiding principles come from the Bible, which you believe to be the living Word of God. Yet though the Bible ALWAYS speaks truly, it does not attempt to speak comprehensively on all matters.

1) Trump has favorability ratings that make him unelectable: The American public is very familiar with Donald Trump and people hate his guts. Trumps current favorable/unfavorable rating is 34/58. Just as a point of comparison, the two biggest landslides in history were against Jimmy Carter (33/58) and Walter Mondale (34/40). Trump is so unpopular with the general electorate that we might as well be running Jared Fogle or Bill Cosby.