I’m an admirer of Mr. Trump. I get a little tired of freepers who do this virtue-signaling stuff such as “While I feel Trump is a bombastic, vulgar pig who loathes women, he’s still a better choice than Hillary Clinton...” Then why bother voting for him?
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Because for all the flaws I perceive in him, I will crawl over contaminated broken glass to cast a vote to keep Hillary Clinton away from the levers of power.
I think Trump is, at worst, a bombastic jerk. But I think he is sincere in his desire to shake up the establishment, and the treatment he has received since the convention should have increased that desire.
Mrs. Clinton is a threat to our liberties. She will use government to punish those who oppose her. She will go after freedom of speech and the press, imposing campus like "speech codes" to drive places like Free Republic out of business, muffle commentators like Rush Limbaugh, and drive magazines like National Review (a valuable resource, if totally wrong about Trump) out of print.
Trump gets the big things right and the small things wrong. Clinton gets everything wrong and would punish those who dare say so.
Because most people are willing to vote for a less than perfect candidate as long as he is right on the big picture issues, and as long as the alternative is so terrible that those flaws can be ignored.
Trump has said and done some things that rub me the wrong way - for example, I couldn't believe that he jumped aboard the idiotic "vaccines cause autism" bandwagon. However such flaws can be overlooked because he was the only candidate talking about how to keep out illegal immigrants and deport the ones we have while the others were debating the best way to open the borders and grant existing illegals amnesty most efficiently.
It's not "virtue signalling" to acknowledge that your candidate of choice has flaws, it's being honest and facing facts. The bottom line is if you wait for a candidate who you unconditionally admire, unless you go through life wearing blinders you'll be waiting a long time.
As to the anti-Trumpers who pretend to oppose Trump because his views don't fit lily-white pure movement conservative ideology, where was their righteous indignation over the liberalism of Bush, McCain, or Romney? If the NeverTrumpers could ignore their lack of ideological purity, then it's pretty clear that their opposition to Trump isn't about ideology, it's about the fact that he's not part of the establishment. Shaking up that establishment is yet another reason to support Trump, warts and all.