It's a choice between a gamble that could work out and certain catastrophe.

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At the moment this particular patriotic American and passionate Zionist is undecided on whom to choose among the GOP hopefuls running for President. Maybe Rubio. Maybe Cruz. But if Trump runs the table and gets nominated there is no choice except to back him fully, 100 percent.

If you don’t like Trump, better to hold your nose for an instant rather than four to eight more years.

Yes, Trump is no Reagan. But he is no Hillary, and that is all that counts to save this country of ours.

I say this after what just happened. True well-meaning Conservatives, led by Rich Lowry and the team of editors at the National Review, came out blasting the frontrunner. They’ve written a scathing editorial against Trump and broke it to us through Megyn Kelly on Fox News and the brawling within the family has begun.

They argue that Trump is no Conservative. Got it. He waffles. He cares only about himself. He is no Reagan. He must be stopped.

Got that too, but I’ll take an imperfect Conservative like Trump over a perfect Liberal like Hillary any day.

In fact I’ll take anybody, and I mean anybody so long as we do not get another Democrat in the White House.

A Reagan comes along but once in a lifetime and we have got to stop getting messianic waiting for Reagan to happen again.

The voting process is always a wager. Seldom are the choices ideal. Trump is not ideal. With Trump we are only guessing how good or bad he’ll be for America and Israel. It’s a toss-up, a roll of the dice. With Hillary we know EXACTLY the doom that awaits us all.

So agreed, Trump is a gamble. We don’t know what we’re getting.

But if he’s got winning ways, if he’s a winner, that’s good enough for me and maybe good for the country. Right. I am not sure. But I am a gambler. {Here’s proof.)

Hillary is no gamble. We know exactly what we’d be getting and I am saying this to fellow Conservatives who’ve already declared that they’ll be “staying home” if it’s Trump. This means a vote for Hillary and this means doom for us and disaster for the only country holding it together for us in the tinderbox Middle East, the Jewish State of Israel.



Will Trump be “good for women?”Can’t be worse than Hillary who said nothing about women being raped by Migrants throughout Europe.

While you’re “staying home” consider the favor you’ll be doing for President Hillary and to the million “refugees” she intends to invite to your home…consider the designs she has for Israel with such cronies as Huma Abedin, Sidney/Max Blumenthal, Tom Pickering et al.

Have you thought this through? The upcoming election is for all or nothing.

Let’s remember what we’re talking about. We are talking about the Presidency of the United States of America. Have we not learned? The President holds complete power. The President is everything. The President is king. Obama has taught us this if nothing else.

There is no balance of powers. Not anymore.

It’s his country and we’re just traffic. We’re just in the way as he (and she!) transforms this country into what’s happening in Sweden, in Merkel’s Germany and what’s already begun happening in burka-loving Trudeau’s Canada.

Am I hearing this right? You’re staying home to watch this happen?

Is it really wise to skip the vote with so much at risk?

Remember our 10 US Sailors on bended knee to their mocking Islamic captors. I doubt that Trump would have trifled. He’d take action.

I could be wrong.

Will Trump be “good for women?”

Can’t be worse than Hillary who said nothing about women being raped by Migrants throughout Europe. She wants to bring more of them into our country.

Not so Trump.

I could be wrong again.

Will Trump be good for Jews? Can’t be worse than Hillary who is reliably documented here, calling an aide “f***ing Jew bastard.”

I’m still wrong?

But I’ll take my chances. Give it to Hillary (by staying home) or any other Democrat and all bets are off. Our ruin is guaranteed.

If it’s Cruz or Rubio, I’m in. If it’s Trump, okay too – warts and all.

New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the international classic “Indecent Proposal” now followed by the prophetic thriller “The Bathsheba Deadline.” Engelhard is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website: www.jackengelhard.com