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Trump is going after Obama - good enough for me. When the primaries come around, I will decide my vote. This is just like Spring football - all scrimmages and no record at the end. I need to look into that Reagan quote - Reagan was a great man, and his convictions went down to the bone, as his letters have proved.

Trump's message resonates: we need to be strong economically. We need fair trade, not free trade. Give America a strong economy, and jobs, and every man can be king of his own castle, not a peasant in a shack he rents from a government that has its head up its ass. That is what is resonating.

Find me a Republican who has articulated it half as well and you will see Trump fade. Trouble is, none has. He puts the big picture in a nutshell that folks can feel at a personal level, without the equivocations and the “well, it's more complicated than that” and the “in a global marketplace, with our various multi-lateral military commitments and inter-dependencies, you have to understand that...” Hence we have Trump. He is making the sale.

Only Palin comes close in persuasiveness, but her record is thin. Not thinner than Obama’s, but thin. Christie has shown it takes a goomba to take on the goombas, and I like that. NO one is going to be Ivory Soap pure - I want the man or woman who will give us a strong economy and the freedom to run my own castle. The latter clause opens the door to issues of morality and essential liberties - you have to have life, liberty, and property to run your castle. The primaries and due dilligence will help me sift on that.