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Republican Voters: Please Look under the Hood

written by Guest Contributor Mark Shepard February 19, 2016

The importance of the Republican primary cannot be over stated. I say this as someone who came very close to running against Bernie Sanders when he first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I have personally seen and battled against his ideas and influence in four elections, winning an underdog primary, followed by two terms in the Vermont Senate and then running against a national-GOP-backed candidate in a Congressional primary. It would be folly to underestimate Sanders or his message. Hillary is merely a power hungry crook. Bernie Sanders is on a mission, which now has a sizable following, many with deep pockets. If there is anything we should take away from the past decade it is that these folks are a force to be taken seriously. We either turn their ideas back this election or truly risk undoing everything that made America the envy of the world.

Neither a businessman with unlimited money, nor a politician with eloquent speeches will defeat Sanders. He took out the wealthy real-job-creating and charitable businessman 65% to 32% to win his Senate seat. Childish name calling – liar, liar, liar – to avoid addressing history or a record will only make the spread larger.

Sanders socialist movement will only be defeated by a candidate who has the ability and the will to piece-by-piece unpeel every half-truth that socialism is built upon. This task is a must even Hillary wins the Democrat primary.

While chaos reigned through much of the Greenville, SC debate, the candidates’ uninterrupted closing statements presented a noteworthy contrast between Trump, Rubio and Cruz:

Marco Rubio: “… If you elect me president … We are going to be a country that says that, life begins at conception and life is worthy of the protection of our laws. We’re going to be a country that says that marriage is between one man and one woman …”

Donald Trump: “… We are going to make our country great and we’re going to do the right thing. …”

Ted Cruz: “Do you want a conservative, a proven conservative that will stand and fight with you each and every day?” “Listen, repealing Obamacare is not going to be easy. Passing a simple flat tax that abolishes the IRS is not going to be easy but if we stand with the American people we can do it. And today, we saw just how great the stakes are, two branches of government hang in the balance. Not just the presidency but the Supreme Court. If we get this wrong, if we nominate the wrong candidates, the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious, liberty – everyone of those hangs in the balance. …”

Marco Rubio’s and Donald Trump’s closing statements called on voters to simply elect them and things we have battled for decades will be accomplished. In stark contrast, Ted Cruz’s closing statement shows an understanding of the incredibly tough battle we are in.

Yes, Cruz has promised he would overturn all of Obama’s illegal executive orders on day one, which is something he can do as president, yet neither Rubio nor Trump will take such a stand. But Cruz also has a firm grasp of the battle we are in. Things will not simply go our way just by electing our candidate. The fight will be huge and relentless and that is why it is so important to elect a relentless fighter who does not live in a fantasy world, but rather understands and honestly expresses reality.

For the sake of winning the SC primary, Rubio and Trump are quick to promise things they cannot control, while staying far away from things they actually could do as president. Just read their closing statements again and imagine their responses when these are challenged in a debate in the general election. It will undo both of them because they will not be able to defend their own words as has been the pattern so far in this primary once the facts are sorted out: See here, here and here for video footage.

I am supporting Ted Cruz because I believe he is the only candidate running that has demonstrated he has the ability and determination to do the hard work required to unpeel the half-truths of socialism and thereby shift the thinking of millions of millennials who simply have not thought socialism through. We must have a candidate that thinks things through before he speaks. This is a battle of worldviews, not a speech contest nor an insult match.

Socialism is a caste system. The rich stay rich and then there are the rest. The millennials need every aspect unpeeled if we are to leave a strong, free and prosperous America to our children and grandchildren. Please look under the hood of every candidate. The engine matters.

© Mark Shepard

Republican Voters: Please Look under the Hood was last modified: February 19th, 2016 by Guest Contributor Mark Shepard
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Guest Contributor Mark Shepard

Mark Shepard served two terms in the Vermont Senate (2003-2006) and ran for Congress in the 2006 Republican Primary. Like so many other families and businesses in Vermont, in 2011 the Shepard family moved from Vermont to Virginia, where Mark's wife Rebecca was raised and where they were married in 1990.

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