"Trump handled this trial poorly. He lost his cool. He failed. His tantrum reveals his true colors. He’s fine as a lighting rod, and I’m glad he’s taking the heat, glad he’s imploding."
Trump could play you like a fiddle if he wanted to. He could turn on a dime and act the dignified gentleman statesman and presumably suck you in since you demonstrate all this concern with appearance ( Right? Or could he? Unless you are feigning this concern as you are really wedded to a party or philosophy ). But as Nixon pointed out you run to the base in the primary and then back to the middle in the general. We are in the primary season and he is running to the base. Red meat is what's on the menu, and that includes major media personalities and wussie politicians. Like I said before, you have a knack for misreading the events in front of your eyes.
"This isn’t about “the MSM” or about “RINOs.” This is about Trump making an absolute ass of himself. That’s his schtick. Lots of FReepers love it. They want to see it “all burn down,” and that’s Trump’s gimmick."
Sorry, it is ONLY about the party duopoly and the captive major media outlets. In the past it was just 3 networks, but now it is 6 plus a slew of enemy combatants embedded behind enemy lines out of uniform, like RedState. Ignore them no more, the country is literally at stake.
"Once he’s off stage and back with his casinos and TV shows and blather, the conversation will become more about serious policy and the right man (or woman) for the job and the best path forward, and not about Mr. Self-Absorbed."
Ummm, Trump has no casinos you know. He is getting up there in age and who knows, maybe he figures he only has 5-10 years left on Earth and wants to do good now. That is a reasonable theory in my opinion, but who can tell? Most of them know they can't take it with them and quite probably even The Donald understands this fact. He could do a lot of good as President for issues he already cares about, such as Veterans, so I am willing to believe this, for now.
"One person will rise to the top, a solid conservative who is good with ideas and good with words, a man with character and determination and fearlessness who gets the job done."
Okay, I have to complement you on your faith. However, you are not going to like what I tell you here, it will be as bad as the Doctor that walks in and says 'it's Cancer'.
In short, you are still living in 1988 or 1992. You might optimistically stretch that out to 1996, some 20 million illegal aliens ago, and some 70 million total people ago. Read that again. That was perhaps the last chance that a textbook Conservative had to win a legitimate election. Then, in 2000 Gore finally dragged more people to the polls than Bush43, and he just squeaked by in 2004 with +3 million against Lurch Kerry.
You really do not want to know the numbers after that, 280 million in 2000, to 320 million today. The (D)emocrat-Socialist enemy has somehow managed a complete non-quota bias towards Mexico so you can guess that they have padded their rolls by perhaps 30 million to our 10 million.
When you say: "a solid conservative who is good with ideas and good with words, a man with character and determination and fearlessness who gets the job done." you are whistling past the graveyard. You are describing the path to 180+ electoral votes, maybe 200, *if* the (R)inos would even nominate him in the first place. But since you literally just said this is not about RINOs at all it is clear you don't even get the insurmountable odds in front of you. Maybe *you* should visit a casino and learn something that Trump and many of us know - the house almost always wins, and in this casino - the uniparty is planning on winning.
I don't want to be accusatory, but IMHO anyone still pressing the myth that all we need to do is nominate another good guy may be trolling, or is completely in denial. But make no mistake, the one sure way to ensure a repeat of recent elections is to repeat the same mistakes ...
DingelBarry = 365
McCain = 173
2012
DingelBarry = 332
Romney = 206
It is up to you to place your perfect candidate name on those maps and then draw the path to 270+ electoral votes. Can you demonstrate that? 5 states need to be flipped just to get back in the game, 5 or more actually, since they are hard at work in conquering Texas.
Their next move is for naturalizing 13 or 35 million and 100 million total with extended families, of which 70% at least are in their pocket. You can leave your eyes closed and fingers in your ears and argue that we just need to do the same thing yet again, but more people are going to call you a troll, or insane, or both. Because a (D) troll would do exactly what it takes to ensure that one of those above maps occurs again next year. An insane person does the same thing over and over expecting a different result. (D) and (R) party politics and insanity all fit together rather nicely you see.
I'm not optimistic. But I can see narrowly threading a needle here in a multi-step operation. Trump has the ability to compete in California and New York. He could draw the enemy into a siege in places they never even have to defend. The stupid (R) party would be free to use their resources in state and local elections with Trump financing the main event. Any other candidate means the stupid party money must go into the main event and whatever is left over in state and local, so the Congress is at risk again. I call them stupid because they cannot understand the force multiplier they would have in a self-financed campaign by Trump. BTW: doesn't anyone remember that idiot Romney did NOT self-finance? Who needs more proof that he never even tried to win.
So, there is a possible perfect storm scenario here, with lots more money than ever before, and playing in every ballpark, against a bad (D)ummycrat no matter who it is. Trump nailing either New York and Florida or California is a win. Getting all three and many more is a landslide. Populism can make this happen. Conservatism cannot ( sorry Rush ). We already have all the "Conservative" states. Demographics turned several into purple. We're at the end of the road now. So which guy is addressing the border, illegals and immigration? We actually need an extended moratorium, so who would even consider that?
Still think that Trump is crazy idea? Still think his supporters are robots? I think these people are just being realistic. Someone please put forth a better idea that is mathematically sound.