Trump is fine with homosexual marriage. He was fine with abortion before running for president, he is fine with one payer government healthcare. Becoming president will make his company even bigger and richer. His state of the union speech will be how much richer he is now than he was before he was president. A celebrity president.
When people are angry, they select an angry person to yell for them and cause destruction and that is exactly what Trump is - destruction. He enjoys making enemies of other celebrities, carrying on ridiculous tweets in the middle of the night to assail people he thinks are not fair with him. His definition of fair is total adoration from others.
Any criticism from anyone and he explodes - he requires total love from every person he encounters or he destroys them.
He will win because people are mad/angry. People are blinded due to his billions of dollars. When there is one criticism of him, posters say that cannot be true because he has billions of dollars so he must be wonderful no matter what he says or does or has done in the past.
Angry people want a King to make it all better. Put gold fixtures in the White House as he has in his apartment and airplane. Put the latest fashion on his model wife. Make it all beautiful as a King must have.
They will finally understand what their anger has done when they have to live under the dictatorship of a tyrant who demands unconditional love from his peasants or he swats them down. He has already said he will get millionaires to help him run the government. Unless you are a millionaire, he will have no time for you.
The country is lost. What a pity we killed ourselves out of anger instead of saving ourselves by rational thinking.
I guess one needs to define "rational thinking" in order to put things in perspective. You obviously don't like Trump (I'm a Cruz first and Trump second person because nobody else is suitable) but do you dislike him enough to pass on him and let Hillary or Bernie in like folks did to allow Obama 2 terms?
Does anyone compare the damage already done with the damage to come if one allows another far Leftist who cares nothing about the Constitution or them dang inconvenient laws?
Does one consider the difference between someone 'who is OK with homosexual marriage/and was OK with abortion, and someone who is rabidly pro homo/abortion and who will break laws to elevate those items above decent Americans?
How much do we think we can actually aid and abet the Evil side and still call it "rational thinking"?
Some say they can't bring themselves to vote for a Trump and I say I can't stop myself from voting for a trump. To pass on him is to tacitly prefer the darker side of things.
Maybe we've gotten so lazy (it was our side's apathy for decades that allowed things to get this bad) that we aren't willing to actually roll up our sleeves and work - if we can't have everything in one fell swoop, we opt to drop out and go whine about how bad things are.
Hate to say it, but no matter who gets in, we are going to have a lot of disappointed folks because they envision changes that will set everything right w/o considering that no matter how much progress is made, it will inconvenience a lot of folks and it will only be a step in the right direction - the process took a long time with a rabid and tireless Left working 24/7 and it will take a lot of time and work (eternal vigilance) to make things right.
Find faults instead of looking for solutions - that seems to be our battle cry (whine/snivel/moan).
We are oh-so-capable of discerning the slightest flaw in our side, but seem incapable of discerning the functional differences between our side (flawed as they may be) and are too willing to ignore the damage we help wreak.
That is why we are so screwed - to many nitpicking carpers and n ot enough solution-oriented folks. We have who we have to choose from because we aren't active enough in the process - we whine about paid and bought for candidates (Trump ain't one) and we refuse to invest ourselves with our own donations and work to boost real conservatives (we seem to think, that like Neo, they will just pop onto the scene and be elected into office where they will make everything right.
We are screwed because we are lazy and cheap and stupid except when it comes to trashing any who might end up on our side (after allowing them to be placed there).
Functionally, we are just as base and useless as those we deride - big talkers and big egos playing a game because to make it real takes actual cost and effort beyond blathering about how bad things are.
Pogo had us pegged.
All true but there are a couple of things I like about the Trump candidacy. One, he is breaking the back of the Bush dynasty. Two, he may break the back of the Clinton dynasty.
And . . . Trump is a white male which means he can be impeached and that Congress will be allowed to control the budget strings. Because of Obama’s and Clinton's gimmicks, those checks and balances are off the table for them.
Very, very well said.
SUPER BUMP
Every self-described conservative on Free Republican should mull Marcella's words above with sincere self-searching. She is absolutely correct in identifying reasons right-headed people support such a wrong-headed candidate.
I pray they wake up in time to dump Trump and choose Cruz.