So the Presidential campaign is in full swing. I know. It sounds insane. Its way to early. But here we are. Tomorrow night starts the first presidential debate. This is the first chance for 17 members of the Republican party to make their statement.
Right now, Donald Trump leads the pack. Why? I've been reading twitter a lot lately, and what I've found is that people like him because they are sick of DC politics and so is he. But anger makes a bad president. He has many things that he is against, but he isn't for anything.
So what do we need in a President?
#1 Executive experience. We need someone who was a governor. Governors understand how the presidency should work, because they've served as the executive as a state. The problem with President Obama (and by association a Rand Paul, Teddy Cruz, and Hillary Clinton) is that those that come out of the Senate don't know how the Presidency should work. Most of them want to serve as President by proposing and signing laws (i.e. ObamaCare). They don't understand what it means to be Commander in Chief. They don't understand the duties of the President. They just want to propose laws. In truth, they think they want to be Speaker of the House. Therefore, we need a person who has executive experience. That should rule out much of the field right there for reasonable people.
#2 A Conservative. There are several reasons why we lost the last two elections. There was major fraud, unnecessary though it may be. There was racial motivations (many people voted not on the content of his character, but on the color of his skin). But mostly, it was due to the Republican primaries. For some reason, Republican obeyed the liberal media in voting for who the liberal media thought was "electable." In other words, with McCain and Romney, they voted for the most liberal Republicans they can find. It seems that the same is going on this year. Trump is liberal. He donated to Hillary Clinton's last presidential campaign. He's voted for more Democrats than Republicans. He's a liberal. I am honestly convinced that he's running a fake campaign to try to get Hillary elected. But I feel the same with Jeb Bush and Chris Christi and a few others. We need a conservative. Think about it. The most one-sided election of all time (1984, Reagan vs. Mondale) was where we put up a true conservative.
#3 Intimidating. The world is in chaos. Putin is restarting the Cold War. ISIS is rolling over much of the Middle East. Iran has a path to the Nuke. Our border is porous. Again, I hate to compare everything to Reagan, but he ended the Cold War by staring down the USSR and making them blink. Some want to pull back from the world. But as we all know, "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." Rand Paul believes that if we give Iran a nuke, the MAD policy will keep them in check. Mutually Assured Destruction is not a great policy for those who blow themselves up in order to receive seventy virgins. That's just not good foreign policy. And there is no reason why we are the only country in the world who are not able to secure our borders. And yes, note the "s." I mean Canada too. I would also include in that we need to change our legal immigration policy. We need more immigrants from Mexico, and from China and the Middle East.
#4 Financially sound. President Bush really wasn't financially conservative. True, he ran two wars, but he wasn't that financially good to begin with. Trump declared bankruptcy four times. Our dollars are worth much less today than they used to be. Our debt is insane. President Obama took out more debt than every President before him. We don't need someone who declared bankruptcy. We need someone who doesn't believe in debt.
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