[Kickass Conservative]

Which reminds me. When Republican Nominee Romney was planning to make a Campaign Appearance in a predominately Black Ares, the Residents protested telling him they didn’t want him there.

Romney folded like a cheap Suit and never showed up.

I will bet a dollar to a donut that Trump could Campaign in the same area and be welcomed with open arms.

For Years the Republican Mantra is we need a bigger Tent to be more inclusive, blah, blah, blah. It seems to me that they just got their wish and they are doing everything they can do to fold that same Tent and go back home.

I am saying this as a Cruz Supporter first, and I am beginning to think that Cruz could never get the variety of Voting Blocks needed to win the General Election that are flocking to Trump.

The next POTUS will not be Elected with just Conservatives backing him. Heck, Reagan couldn’t get Elected POTUS in this day and age. Sad, but true.

I could say it’s a gut feeling, but I know people that would never Vote for Cruz who would Vote for Trump in a New York minute.

I can talk up Cruz to them until the Cows come Home and I haven’t swayed a one. It’s just the way things seem to be heading, like it or not.

Just my $.02, your Mileage may vary.

[Nacho Bidnith]

I think if Trump is the nominee, he’ll attract first time voters, voters that have “given up” on voting and crossover voters like no one has ever seen before.

I also think we’ll see an all time record for number of votes cast.

[poconopundit]

...I will bet a dollar to a donut that Trump could Campaign in the same area and be welcomed with open arms.  

There's an indefinable quality in certain people. Call it character or gravity.   Here's what Ralph Waldo Emerson had to say about George Washington.

"We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington, in the narrative of his exploits.   The largest part of his power was latent.   This is that which we call Character, -- a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.

"It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a Familiar or Genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart; which is company for him, so that such men are often solitary, or if they chance to be social, do not need society, but can entertain themselves very well alone.

"The purest literary talent appears at one time great, at another time small, but character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.   What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man accomplishes by some magnetism.   'Half his strength he put not forth.'

"His victories are by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing of bayonets.   He conquers, because his arrival alters the face of affairs."

Emerson, Character from Essays: 2nd Series (1844)