{Sad, really. Otherwise bright, intelligent, well informed and engaged people who refuse to see reality that the GOP-E must be torn down rather than aligned with in order to “win at any cost.” }
Sad, really. Otherwise bright, intelligent, well informed and engaged people, so lost in their hatred of the GOPe, they refuse to see the reality that “deal maker” Trump has no actual interest in tearing down the GOPe. They justifiably want the GOP torn down because the GOP has failed to live up to their conservative electoral rhetoric...and they do this by pinning their hopes on a man who has zero conservative principles to live by.
Sad, really.
After YEARS of pinning my hopes on the GOP(E) to at least live up to a minimal amount of Conservative hopes, their continued failure to do so, and decades of telling us Conservatives to "sit down, shut up, and vote GOP" ... what exactly is the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans at this point?!
No one seriously believes Donald Trump is a conservative. I've said many, many times on here, Trump is a Populist who occasionally has left of center positions, occasionally right of center positions. The fact that both political parties hate him with a passion tells me much: that he is an instrument of both their destruction. The fact the GOP is actively working towards a brokered convention which will ultimately elect Shrillary Clinton tells me Trump is a weapon, to be used to bludgeon both parties to their miserable death.
And THAT is the reason I support him.
In 1976, they tried to tell us to sit down, shut up and vote for Gerry Ford. Instead, we got Jimmy Carter.
In 1980, they tried stealing the nomination from Ronald Wilson Reagan. Thankfully they failed.
In 1984, Ronald Wilson Reagan was so wildly popular, he swept 49 of 50 states to win re-election. Drove the GOP-E batshit crazy.
In 1988, they told us to sit down, shut up and vote for George Herbert Walker Bush. So we got a GOP-E "out of touch" President.
In 1992, they again told us to sit down, shut up, and vote for George Herbert Walker Bush. We got Bill Clinton.
In 1996, they told us to sit down, shut up and vote for Bob Dole because hey, it was "his turn." We again got Bill Clinton.
In 2000 they told us to sit down, shut up and vote for George W. Bush. We got a faux "Conservative" who turned out to be one of the biggest fiscal liberals since Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In 2004 they again told us to sit down, shut up and vote for George W. Bush. We *again* got a faux "Conservative" who couldn't win a war in Iraq or Afghanistan, and continued to blow holes in the budget and deficit and in fact KILLED the balanced budget AND SURPLUS he was given.
In 2008 they told us to sit down, shut up and vote for John McCain because it was "his turn" and oh, he was a war hero to boot. Instead, we got 0bama. In 2012 they told us to sit down, shut up and vote for Mitt Romney because it was "his turn" after being a good GOP-E soldier in 2012. In an election he should've won, Romney failed to "go for the kill" during the final debate with 0bama and blew the election, losing in a massacre. In 2016, it's time for the GOP-E to sit down, SHUT THE HELL UP and vote for Donald Trump!!