I opposed Trump all through the primaries.  At first, I supported Rand Paul, even though we don't agree on defense.  When he lost traction over his 4th Amendment stance on NSA surveillance, with which I agreed, I switched to Ted Cruz.

I didn't begin to warm up to Trump until his nomination acceptance speech and his policy speech aa few days later.  I knew he didn't write either one of them, but by endorsing and giving those speeches, I knew he was hiring the right kind of advisers.  He hit on all of my hot buttons: (1) over-taxation of business; (2) over-regulation (when he mentioned the $2 Trillion cost of regulatory compliance -- an 11% drain on GDP -- I knew exactly where that came from, "10,000 Commandments" by Wayne Crews); (3) More balanced trade agreements; (4) that terrible deal with Iran; (5) Incentives to get the multi-nationals to bring out-sourced jobs home and encourage foreign companies to come here and hire our people.  We need economic growth and he gets it.

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