[odawg]

Could you possibly describe how an empty headed person can accumulate billions of dollars? I don’t remember you slamming Obama in such a fashion. Is George W of superior intelligence?
Someone could label your snark about his comb-over as shallow. You probably are not, and it is beneath you. I was surprised. I usually read and agree with your posts.

[nathanbedford]

My core objection to Donald Trump is that he is an ideological loose cannon. He cannot be defined as conservative because he is sui generis which is a kind way of saying, a narcissist. He is much in the mode of Ross Perot in many respects including personality traits as well as ideological confusion.

There is also a great deal of ideological confusion among the electorate, hence the appeal of the Ross Perots and the Donald Trumps. Many people believe that political parties are the problem, that an outsider is the solution. The solution is a conservative who can come from outside or inside or from Mars as far as I'm concerned but he must hold true to conservatism.

Donald Trump is simply not conservative, he is an opportunist but he is an ideological and philosophical opportunist as well as an opportunist of personal ambition. He is not a deep thinker, he is ignorant of history, he is akin to any huckster, like Bill Clinton, who can read an audience and summon up the sociopathic skills necessary to persuade by pandering. Some of those emotional hot buttons about which he panders include issues with which you and I both agree such as our trade relations with China but about which I decline to be bamboozled.