I think we’re paying too much attention to what the media and political elites are saying, TELLING us Trump is unpopular because THEY want him to be so, not because he truly is.
In that same vein he's not on a rocket train to victory because some conservatives want him to be and say he is because they are in love with his loose tongue. Reality is what it is, no matter what the media wants or what freepers want. I believe what my own eyes and ears tell me, regardless of either. Where it only up to freepers and people at Trump rallies I'd wager Sarah Palin would be running for reelection after having swept all 50 states in 2012.
"I could cast a vote for Trump in the general election."
And I WILL vote for any of the 17 including Trump if he is nominated to run against Hillary, I'd vote for a rabid squirrel if need be. But I wanna win GD it, and for the next President to be a good one and not other (r)unt like GW Bush. His entertaining persona and his success with real estate deals does not imbue me with your confidence that he could satisfy either condition. I could cast a vote for Trump in the general election.
Last poll I saw had him leading 2-to-1 over the second place candidate (El Jebbe ?), so no meager plurality in a large field (half of whom are desultory, such as Linda, Gilmore & even La Raza Rick). Trump is no Perry.
Our feel for his candidacy is completely different here. He’s far more appealing to me on a personal level, I’m just so sick of the losers and mealy-mouthed cowards infesting the GOP. I want someone to stand up and unapologetically knock the teeth down the throats of the opposition. We’re losing this country, damn it !
If the GOP puts up another loser/ringer/coward AGAIN against Hillary (presuming she’s even the nominee — the Dem base hates her almost as much as we hate El Jebbe), I’m walking once again and voting 3rd party Conservative (be it Trump, FR’s own Mr. Hoeffling, or even ex-Rep. Hostettler). I have no interest in preserving a party so far in bed with the Democrats that you can no longer tell where they fuse together. It’s like watching a combo of Illinois and Massachusetts on a national scale, collapsing under the weight of their statism, corruption and collusion. Let them “Whig” out.