Anyone who reads my articles, knows that I was for Ted Cruz until it was obvious to all that he had no chance.  I loved the fact that he professed his love for the Lord.

Tonight I realized for the first time, that Ted Cruz was not about fixing America. He was not about preserving the Constitution. He was not about securing our border for safety for all Americans.  Tonight I realized that Ted Cruz was about Ted Cruz.

I thought that perhaps he would encourage America to vote for Donald Trump, because not voting for him was, in essence, a vote for Hillary Clinton. The ramifications of a Clinton win this November are so disturbing, it is really hard to fathom.  She will immediately place a Marxist/Socialist on the SCOTUS and tip the scales for the progressives.

Clinton will annihilate the 2nd Amendment and a major gun grab will most likely take place.  This woman is a criminal and should be behind bars.

Hillary Clinton will fight against the Christian’s right to adhere to their beliefs from the Word of God.

I have posted this video before, but I feel the need again:

Hillary Clinton will add more Muslim Brotherhood members to our government. Her White House will be filled with radical Muslims.  Perhaps this is what America deserves.  My readers know that I have spoken about God’s judgment against America many times.

As a people, most Americans have turned their backs on God.  Planned Parenthood continues to be funded and we (the tax payers) fund them!  We have no choice.

The SCOTUS decided to “make” law and declared that marriage was no longer just between a man and woman. Their job is to interpret the Constitution as our founders meant those words to mean – NOT to make or change laws.  That is the job of the legislative branch.

There is a part of me, because I love America, that wants to see the Marxist/Socialists kicked out by Conservatives/Consitutionalists.  I’m human just like everybody, and I have hopes like the rest of you.  But I’m a child of the King and I know what His Word says. I know that He judges nations.  I know that our nations’ sins are so egregious.

But I must say that for Ted Cruz to get up on that stage at Trump’s convention (he IS the party’s choice) and not endorse him, was shocking and very telling.  It told me that Ted Cruz cares more about himself than he does about America.

A “no” vote for Trump is a “yes” vote for Hillary.

Are you willing to do that?

MARANATHA

By Daniel Pipes

National Review Online

July 18, 2016

Originally published on Middle East Forum

Every major government condemned the coup attempt in Turkey, as did all four of the parties with representatives in the Turkish parliament. So did even Fethullah Gülen, the religious figure accused of being behind the would-be take over.

All of which leaves me feeling a little lonely, having tweeted out on Friday, just after the revolt began, “#Erdoğan stole the most recent election in #Turkey and rules despotically. He deserves to be ousted by a military coup. I hope it succeeds.”

Having this nearly-minority-of-one stance suggests that an explanation longer than 140 characters is in order. Three reasons account for my supporting the ouster of the apparently democratically elected and democratically ruling president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, by what are apparently the forces of reaction:

Erdoğan stole the election. Erdoğan is an Islamist who initially made his mark, both as mayor of Istanbul and as prime minister of Turkey, by playing within the rules. As time wore on, however, he grew disdainful of those rules, specifically the electoral ones. He monopolized state media, tacitly encouraged physical attacks on opposition-party members, and stole votes. In particular, the most recent national election, on November 1, showed many signs of manipulation.

Erdoğan rules despotically. Erdoğan has taken control of one institution after another, even in the two years since he became president, a constitutionally and historically non-political position. The result? An ever-growing portion of Turks are working directly under his control or that of his minions: the prime minister, the cabinet, the judges, the police, the educators, the bankers, the media owners, and other business leaders. The military leadership has acquiesced to Erdoğan but, as the coup attempt confirmed, the officer corps has remained the one institution still outside his direct control.

Erdoğan uses his despotic powers for malign purposes, waging what amounts to a civil war against the Kurds of southeastern Turkey, helping ISIS, aggressing against neighbors, and promoting Sunni Islamism.

Fighting between Kurds and police has done much damage in Istanbul’s Gazi district.

Military intervention has previously worked in Turkey. Turkey is the country where military coups d’état have had the most positive effect. In all four of the modern coups (1960, 1971, 1980, 1997), the general staff has shown a disciplined understanding of its role — to right the ship of state and then get out of its way. Their ruling interludes lasted, respectively, five years, two and a half years, three years, and zero years.

Turkey would benefit now from a spell of military readjustment, ending Erdoğan’s increasingly rogue rule, even if that meant replacing him with more reasonable Islamist figures from his own party, such as Abdallah Gül or Ali Babacan.

In the memorable words of Çevik Bir, a leading figure in the 1997 coup: “In Turkey we have a marriage of Islam and democracy. … The child of this marriage is secularism. Now this child gets sick from time to time. The Turkish Armed Forces is the doctor which saves the child.” That child is now very sick and needs its doctor. Sadly, the doctor was stopped this time. One can only imagine how badly the sickness will now spread.

Gen. Cevik Bir presented me with a souvenir at Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, 1997.

We have an initial idea how it will look: 6,000 Turks have already been detained, almost 3,000 judges and prosecutors have been fired, and relations with Washington have escalated to near-crisis mode over Erdoğan’s demand for Gülen’s extradition. However rocky the past road, the future one looks yet more harrowing.

I renew my prediction that Erdoğan’s undoing will likely be in foreign affairs. Applying the same bellicosity that works so well in domestic politics to international relations, he will probably meet his doom one time when he’s just too aggressive for his own good. After paying a heavy price, Turkey will be finally be rid of its megalomaniac.

Daniel Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is the president of the Middle East Forum. © 2016 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.