Cruz Or Trump?

   Everybody has an opinion about Donald Trump.  There is a lot of drumming and humming about the fact that Trump, though running as a Republican candidate, is not a conservative.

   I agree, Trump is no conservative.  But so what? 

   People I consider to be the most reliable truth-tellers about current political trends have made the point that far too many folks in the mainstream Republican party have been moving away from true conservatism for decades. 

   I think Trump is an astute businessman whose occupational endeavors have been complicated and frustrated by growing government incompetence, encroachment and interference. 

    Maybe Trump believes that his best hope for stopping government tampering and rolling it back to insure the success of the Trump dynasty for himself and his heirs, is to be President himself and put some of his own executive orders and some of his own “people” into place while doing his best to get rid of the worst ones that others have effected, especially Obama.  

   That may explain why Trump is getting so much adoration and support from Democrats as well as Republicans.

   Ted Cruz might be more conservative, and therefore a more attractive candidate for conservative voters.  Cruz is certainly less arrogant and less of a bully.

  But who would have the most strength of purpose and be able to wield enough influence and power to roll back oppressive government regulations and policies and force better legislation that would exact immediate improvements in commerce? 

    In the short term, what is most important --  repealing and replacing regulations, legislation and people who obstruct commerce in order to gain a quick reprieve to improve commerce or propping up conservative idealism that dies on the vine in the face of a decades-long deterioration that will require decades-long diligence to transform it?