All of your points, while true, do not negate the fact that Trump is no friend to conservatives and lacks integrity.
False. Trump is disrupting the cartel status quo game plan and for that fact alone is a great friend of conservatives.
Another vanilla election in 2016 = loss for conservatives. We will get either a progressive GOPer or a Dem.
I don’t dispute the fact that his candidacy has done some good, and helped change the conversation.
I’m saying his continued candidacy is destructive to the conservative movement. He would be a bad nominee and even worse President.
Will a true conservative win the nomination with him in the race? Or is he simply dividing the conservative vote so that Jebbie can slide in. (If that happens, I would actually support Trump going third party.)
On the other hand, we conservatives aren’t coalescing around one candidate. We’re repeating the mistakes from years past, and Trump got sent by his pal Hillary to do the job. She can handle a few jabs from him if it gets her in the White House. Besides, it helps her to get those jabs out there early and make it yesterday’s news by the time she gets the nomination.
The problem is, you all are playing checkers while the Clintons and Trump are playing chess. Think about it: if this is collusion between them, it completely fits within the MO of what the Clintons and Trump have done in the past. Trump being a true blue conservative does not fit with his MO.