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so let me ask you....serious honest question.....how will this play out if Trump goes liberal on some key issue at a key moment....or otherwise implodes for any number of potential reasons? EE can’t compete with Rush, but even David Limbaugh is much more circumspect on Trump than his brother. If EE is proven even somewhat correct....it’s all on the record now. There will be no escaping the scoreboard.

You didn’t ask me, but it is a mathematical certainty that Trump go and touch some liberal third rail.

Because at first, he was a 1-issue candidate. His immigration position is the only one so far uttered that has anything in common with most conservatives. Screw “tone”.

So now, as time goes on, 2 issues, then 3, then 4. Sooner or later, he WILL express something that reaches towards libdom. It is a certainty.

There is *nothing* productive about obsessing about every squiggle in this election process. It’s just too early. That’s my view. We don’t “owe” the electoral process this much angst. Yes, I understand the country is in pitiful shape and getting worse and perhaps past some sort of tipping point. I believe it will take a shock to flip it around and I pray for that. Not all shocks are created equal. But the magnitude of events exceeded my ability to control it with my worry 57 flops ago.

“how will this play out if Trump goes liberal on some key issue at a key moment...”

Trump has already done that.

Supported Obama. Supports the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. Supports “a path to Citizenship” for Illegal Invaders.

Has jumped between being a “republican” and a democRAT at least 6 times in the past 20 years.

How much more do you need to know about this unprincipled, self absorbed individual?

Good article, David Limbaugh's is also enlightening, but does not so much cover the potential problem EE has made as yours did.

I think EE is making a huge throw of the dice here and is making a mistake in doing so at this point. Cruz has the right position here, don't poke the bear. Most of us here know that Trump is not a reflexive conservative, yet most of us enjoy how he has stood up to the PC nonsense and the ridiculous idiocy that has become our media.

Like it or not, Trump is in the driver's seat, it's his nomination to win or lose. I'm not saying he's a shoe in, he could flame out any time, but it is his unless he does the flame out himself.

How we deal with that fact is an issue for every conservative. Pointing out that I don't trust him yet is where I am. Pointing out his flip flops, and his recent conservative conversion is important, but going after him like EE and the GOPe is doing is short sighted and foolish.

My 2 cents.

so let me ask you....serious honest question.....how will this play out if Trump goes liberal on some key issue at a key moment....or otherwise implodes for any number of potential reasons?
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I can only rely on my 70 years of experience and insight. I make wrong choices on occasion, but I am never, never going to be told or driven into voting Republican again because I have no other alternative. Just like Trump, I want to preserve my options, and right now that means supporting Trump. At this point I know one thing for certain. As Trump’s former advisor, Roger Stone said, the Uniparty elites are pissing in their pants right now. Trump is the only guy who can bust up this disastrous cartel that will certainly destroy the country. What good are elections if they are only window dressing, a contrived means to betray us? Right now, the news is the RINOs are huddling, plotting their course on how to destroy Trump. Trust me, they are not doing with your interests in mind. They detest the likes of you and me. They are trying to calculate whether they can write us off and still maintain power.

No, and there is "no escaping the scoreboard" in reverse, either. So far, the anti-Trumpsters have been 100% wrong in their predictions about what would happen. ("He won't really run," "He won't file his financials," "He's done after the McCain comments," "He's done after the Fox debate," blah, blah).

No one can predict how someone will act when in office (well, Zero is an exception cause he was a devout Marxist). But Reagan went along with a tax increase, Bush folded on bailouts, etc. We CAN look at the predictions by Erickson and the other pundits as listed above. So far they have all been horribly wrong. Most of them, even if they have to admit it, really say it like, "Yeah, but we're only wrong because you voters are stupid." I went through this with Jim Geraghty of NRO---usually a pretty fair and smart guy. But the NRO crowd is 100% Bushie, and hate Trump. Of all things, THEY try to claim that Trump "isn't conservative enough."

My point is not to again debate Trump's conservatism or lack thereof, but to at least suggest that with a track record of the pundits about Trump, I'd take him in a bet any day.

“...how will this play out if Trump goes liberal on some key issue at a key moment...”

Or, in other words, for some bizarre reason, Trump chooses to abandon the policies that put him in the lead in the polls. Normally, that is what conservatives do.

“If EE is proven even somewhat correct....it’s all on the record now. There will be no escaping the scoreboard.”

Hmmm. Dole, McCain, McConnell, Boehner. The failure of GOPe candidates to follow through on victories given them in two elections. GOPe majorities in both houses rolling over and playing dead for Obama and the Supreme court.

There’s no escaping that actual scoreboard. That theoretical scoreboard that EE is trying to scare us with seems like pretty weak stuff in comparison.

Go, Trump, Go!