[ForYourChildren]

“So you are saying unless the GOP nominates someone unlike the people they always nominate they will be a farce.”

Good point... your whole post is well stated.

My point is my preference for candidates is to be strong in these two criteria:
- Christian Conservative
- Constitutional Conservative

We all have degrees to where we place the candidates and at some point when a candidate crosses too far over, then they get crossed of our list.

I believe Trump is so far over on both of my criteria, that he fails as a candidate. To me, he is so far over to the left on both criteria, that I place him with Romney, McCain, and other similar RINOs and liberals.

[Jack Black]

We all have degrees to where we place the candidates and at some point when a candidate crosses too far over, then they get crossed of our list.

That makes sense. I too have a sort of hierarchy of who I'm voting for. It's roughly like this:

• Gun Rights
• Ending illegal immigration, and over-immigration
• Fiscal Conservative, including focus on role of Fed
• Downsize government, reign in bureaucracy
• Support more liberty

  None of the candidates hit all these, which is unfortunate. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Walker each hit some pretty hard. Trump hit the immigration ball out of the park in his speech, which I appreciate.

  Character is important to me, too. If someone was 100% of my issues but I thought they were a bad person I'd probably go with someone else, even if I agreed with their positions less.

  Newt Gingrich was in that category for me.