[Rockingham]

The GOP base is disenchanted with the party's conventional political figures as Presidential candidates this year because of the failure of such types to even attempt to carry out their promises in Congress or to treat the GOP base with respect. Now Trump comes along and echoes the concerns of the GOP base on illegal immigration and America's economic and strategic decline.

As the alternative to the GOP's conventional candidates for President, Trump seems pretty good, as do Carson and Fiorina, who are also outsiders and rising in the polls. When the whole bushel of apples has gone rotten, it makes sense to go to the tree to pick some fresh ones and overlook superficial scars and blemishes.

As for Trump praising Charley Rangel, it is easy enough to imagine him having had business reasons for doing so given that Rangel is a powerful local member of the US House. And changing party registration may well have had the same business motives in that Trump had to deal with deeply partisan Democrats in office and in the bureaucracy.

[Louis Foxwell]

Images are everything.
Renaming Trump’s fleet of jets AFI.
The new Trump White House ballroom.
A wall 25’ high, impenetrable and unclimbable running the entire southern border.
First lady Melania
Sarah heading Dept of Energy
Cruz on SCOTUS
Add your own.
Trump wins the image campaign hands down.