[SoothingDave]

Trump’s brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right. According to conventional caricature, conservatives are selfish, greedy, materialistic, bullying, misogynistic, angry, and intolerant. They are, we’re told, privileged and pampered elitists who revel in the advantages of inherited wealth while displaying only cruel contempt for the less fortunate and the less powerful. The Left tried to smear Ronald Reagan in such terms but failed miserably because he displayed none of the stereotypical traits. In contrast, Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination

[NeoCaveman]

Oddly enough the unwinning policies are the ones embraced by Conservative Inc^TM a libertarian economic policy married with an unpopular sectarian emphasis on social issues. So for those of us who don't like the left but aren't CATO institute think tankers or fundies*,

we finally got someone. *And I say that part with love as I'm socially conservative I've just not made my politics my relgion and I see that all the time.

[xsmommy]

Read them they all make valid points.