[C. Edmund Wright]

but Trump represents a different choice, he is not status quo. So not wanting Trump is tacit resignation to the status quo.

Well thanks for finally putting forth an intellectual argument - though it is still a false choice - because not wanting Trump is NOT tacit resignation to the status quo. If it comes down to Trump or Jeb for example, or say Kasich - then yeah, it will be Trump or the status quo. But there's at least 4 other candidates who are NON status quo....maybe as many as 6.

There are a few of us around here to are stunned at the lack of reason of most Trump FR supporters. It's mind blowing. But we're on board with Trump if it ever comes down to Trump V GOPe, period. We are the few, the proud, the reasonable. It is impossible to have slavish support and be reasonable at the same time. Mutually exclusive concepts.

But again, it was at least a cogent argument. Refreshing change of pace.

[RoosterRedux]

There are a few of us around here to are stunned at the lack of reason of most Trump FR supporters. It's mind blowing.

Actually, there is plenty of reason. It's just not easy to see.

The reason is this. Trump is a straight talker and that tells people that he means what he says. He is transparent in personality and people trust that.

Are they right to trust that? We'll find out.

But that's the reasoning behind the support for Trump.

What he says is simple but it is still what voters want. Trump has never been eloquent. But Obama was eloquent and look what that got the country...his eloquence was all a lie.

Trump is the anti-Obama, the anti-politician.

That's the reason.

It's not a traditional reason one would use in evaluating a politician, but Americans have had it with politicians. In fact, Americans have had it with everyone even remotely associated with politics.

[central_va]

Trump is the bitter pill that must be swallowed by all patriotic Americans(notice I didn't say Conservatives). Unfortunately he is the only medicine that can cure the status quo blues.

I personally don't mind his snafus because it means he is not beveling his opinions out of PC. That is good even though it does make one cringe a bit.

I expect one unPC statement a week from "the Donald", if I don't get it I am disappointed.

The more "they" attack him the stronger he gets....

[central_va]

But there's at least 4 other candidates who are NON status quo that have no chance of winning....maybe as many as 6.

Fixed.

[Finny]

There are a few of us around here to are stunned at the lack of reason of most Trump FR supporters. It's mind blowing.

With ya on that one, CEW.

But we're on board with Trump if it ever comes down to Trump V GOPe, period. We are the few, the proud, the reasonable.

And you voted for Romney last time, too, right?

You're right about your being among being "the few" -- it's why he lost, I expect.

Me, after 35 years of voting "against," finally accepted the truth of my reasonable tagline. And you might say that I'm proud that the balance of fellow Americans were, as I was, more loyal to God than to the GOP.

Nobody knows, not even Trump, what they're voting for when they vote for him.