Well, put.
Many earnest conservatives here made the reasonable decision to eschew nail-biting and make a choice. And many of them picked Fred.
As often happens, when we go more with our hearts and our hopes than our heads and the record, they are being disappointed. Fred is clearly not the man on the white horse that many had hoped and believed he was. For them, these are bitter days.
I respect you all, Fredheads. The choice of a candidate is a close call for many of us. Few of us see a perfect candidate but, once having picked one, many of us feel the need to put him on an unassailable pedestal. When he falls, it is painful.
Conservatism still needs you this season, Fredheads. You'll find a new candidate...and he may be a winner. A Hillary victory is not written...unless we write it.
Fred is running 2nd in most of the polls and will be our candidate, and he is a winner. You will get on board in that effort when the time comes.
It's nice for you to dismiss any candidate that doesn't meet your well defined criteria, even Ronald Maximus had his failings, but his message was a one of hope and patriotism. He came at a time when we were in peril, lost in our way, and wandering.
His message was simple. America is strong and always will be, we just have to believe in it.
He also understood that the rule of law, not the rule of religion is what makes this nation great.
We are now again in a time of peril. Our enemies will not 'negotiate' as the Dims want, they want our heads, and have proven it over and over again. Our 'freinds' can be counted on one hand, and the rest just want us to be there to pay for everything.
Fred also sees that peril, the one of open borders, China, Jihadism, economic disaster, and the future of those yet unborn to pay for it. He has had revision of some of his earlier failings, AS ANY GOOD MAN WILL DO AS HE GAINS WISDOM.
As a nation of laws, we are bound to protect ALL views, even those we do not care for, and through the ballot box is the way we make change. Not by judicial fiat as with R v W or by decree that some want in an EO or other such nonsense that is more dictatorial than democratic.
Fred understands this one fundamental above the rest, the people need to decide, that is what the Founding Fathers wanted. Limited government, decisions made by the people, and not controlled from a central government.
That is why so many of us are with Fred. Sadly, you others can't see why, and probably won't until it's too late.