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Not even close. Trump is by far the most conservative candidate in both deed and platform.

You can start by telling us how supporting lots of liberals (and a few RINOs) over the past thirty years makes him a conservative? Oh, that's right - he was just buying influence, because he's a crony capitalist.

But he himself "can't be bought" - despite by his own admission engaging in questionable ethical practices like buying influence? Trump's just cut out the middleman; He's his own special interest.

Or how his contributions to Harry Reid's campaign when he was challenged by an actual conservative, Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who wanted to fight ObamaCare, make him a conservative? I don't know about you, but I was working for candidates like her, and writing checks to her and candidates like her, while Trump was working against us.

Or how supporting government controlled health care makes him a conservative? Seems we on FR (and presumably, most of us are conservatives - those of you who think Trump is a conservative excepted, of course) were all up in arms over that a few years ago...

Or how imposing tariffs is conservative? We used to quote Adam Smith and Jack Kemp, and believe in the sanctity of markets... Those tariffs, btw, are not just a liberal idea, but they're a dumb liberal idea, and will do nothing but raise prices for American consumers, and destroy jobs for American workers. If you want to make us more competitive, walls (economic or otherwise) are not the answer.

Or how instead of blaming the policies of the democrats for failed policies which have destroyed economic growth over the past seven plus years, he blames Juan the dishwasher over at the neighborhood greasy spoon? That is not to say that we must control our borders - clearly we must - but it is not even remotely close to the biggest problem this country faces.

Trump is no conservative. Conservatives don't spend their entire lives funding and supporting the opposition, only to make a foxhole conversion because they believe (correctly, as it turns out) that there are enough profoundly gullible people with either no intellectual basis for their purported beliefs, or with no core beliefs whatsoever, who are simply willing to support a reality TV star full of empty promises, unworkable policy pronouncements, and one very defective ideological compass.

profoundly gullible people with either no intellectual basis for their purported beliefs, or with no core beliefs whatsoever, who are simply willing to support a reality TV star full of empty promises, unworkable policy pronouncements, and one very defective ideological compass.

Wow, you got it bad. You are so jaded and beaten down by your own disbelief of reality that the only thing you think you have to offer to persuade people to your side are insults and nonsense. There is something we can agree on, I also think that is the only thing you have to offer. Better brace yourself, it's about to get a whole lot worse for you.