[Attention Surplus Disorder]

You didn’t ask me, but it is a mathematical certainty that Trump go and touch some liberal third rail.

Because at first, he was a 1-issue candidate. His immigration position is the only one so far uttered that has anything in common with most conservatives. Screw “tone”.

So now, as time goes on, 2 issues, then 3, then 4. Sooner or later, he WILL express something that reaches towards libdom. It is a certainty.

There is *nothing* productive about obsessing about every squiggle in this election process. It’s just too early. That’s my view. We don’t “owe” the electoral process this much angst. Yes, I understand the country is in pitiful shape and getting worse and perhaps past some sort of tipping point. I believe it will take a shock to flip it around and I pray for that. Not all shocks are created equal. But the magnitude of events exceeded my ability to control it with my worry 57 flops ago.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I agree with much of our set up, but not all of your conclusion. I would say that no mention of limited gov or the Constitution is more than a “squiggle.” I would say that funding PP is not a “squiggle.” His assessment of the economic boom, exonerating ALL Democrats, is not a “squiggle.” His idea of punishing Ford, rather than rolling back the liberalism that is making them look at operating a plant in Mexico, is not a “squiggle.”

These are liberal reflexes. The man has many liberal reflexes.

[freedomfiter2]

Trump’s second issue involves the damaging effect of these “free trade” agreements.

[Graybeard58]

There is *nothing* productive about obsessing about every squiggle in this election process. It’s just too early. That’s my view. We don’t “owe” the electoral process this much angst.

I agree, while the primary process is important, the event coming in November 2016 is a hundred times more relevant. The democrat candidate must be defeated, no matter whether it's Hillary, (I don't think it will be) or whoever.

Democrats will have been working to destroy our country for 8 years in a row, we must not let them have 4 or 8 more years to finish the job.

I doubt that anybody here wants to see Jeb Bush as the republican candidate and I really don't think he has a chance but think about the alternative democrat candidate.

I've seen so many posts saying, "I'll never vote for candidate X, if he wins the nomination and in different posts I believe I've seen every republican candidate mentioned as "candidate X". I understand that sentiment, I struggled in the last election over whether to vote for the utterly repulsive Romney, in the end, I just could not do it and voted for the Libertarian candidate instead.

People on this forum blame me for Romney's loss and I concede they have part of a point. Yep, my one vote here in Illinois cost Romney the election..................or was it Romney's political repugnance that lost the election?

Romney was the only republican candidate that I have ever refused to vote for in a very long history of voting, I'm not sorry for it.

There is no republican candidate in a very large field this time that I would reject in the general, not one as unacceptable as Romney, liberal to the core that he is.<

Yes, I readily admit it, I'd vote for Jeb in the general election against any democrat they put up.

[McBuff]

There is *nothing* productive about obsessing about every squiggle in this election process. It’s just too early. That’s my view. We don’t “owe” the electoral process this much angst.

Very well said. . .the potential third rail for Trump is who he would consider for the Supreme Court. Another bad choice there and recovery will be nearly impossible.