My top 3 are Rubio, Bush, and Kasich. I will only vote for Ted Cruz as a last resort. I've gotten older, and hopefully, a little wiser. I'm all for principles, and pretty conservative ones, at that. But you don't damage the United States for personal ambition, and any patriot would rather lose than inflame destructive passions for personal gain. Ted Cruz didn't and hasn't denounced this demagogue, until it benefited him. He's also fed a mostly exaggerated evangelical persecution complex (as if the HHS mandate isn't bad enough). No Christian anywhere ought to advocate the indiscriminate bombing of any people, but he has. He seems reasonable, next to bigotry and xenophobia. Well, my friends, we have to do better. If we don't, we don't deserve what's been handed down to us.
Update: I read the whole thing. I’m sorry, but what a weirdo. I thought you [Tom Darrow, of Denver, CO] made a trenchant case for why lockdowns are bad, and I definitely appreciated it. But a graduation speech is *not* the place for that. Secondly, this is an august event. It always is. I would never address the President of the United States in this manner. Never. Even the previous president, though he deserves it, if anyone does. Thirdly, the affirmations of Catholic identity should be more general. He has no authority to propound with specificity on all matters of great consequence. It has all the hallmarks of a culture war broadside, and again, a layman shouldn’t speak like this. The respect and reverence due the clergy is *always due,* even if they are weak, and outright wrong. We just don’t brush them aside like corrupt Mafia dons, to make a point. Fourthly, I don’t know where anyone gets the idea that the TLM is how God demands to be worshipped. The Church doesn’t teach that. ...
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