1) It is putting the party in a position where it will be damned near impossible for them to come out and embrace amnesty.
2) It is causing other Republican candidates to at last grow a spine (see: Mike Huckabee)
3) It is monkeywrenching the entire liberal media mechanism for selecting our nominee by knocking out candidates they don’t like (witness their cranial explosions when Trump shoves it in their faces and his polling goes up)
4) It is drawing a whole lot of Reagan Democrat-type voters back into the party, who really have had no reason to vote Republican in recent years.
5) The fear that Trump will take his fortune and run third-party will keep the party elites from engaging in the usual shenanegans.
I like your summation of points better than the article.
If someone actually leads people will follow.
Say what you will, Trump may be a jerk but has he ever shoved it outta sight up the tookas of the preening fops and strutting capons who rule the GOP. Fops, capons, the occasional hebephile and pederasts. Go Donald !!!!!
Caddis the Elder
But if he keeps doing what he's doing (exposing the enemedia and GOPe lackeys for what they really are, talking about issues which need to be discussed, etc.), I'm more than willing to give him a serious look.