Objective is to win election.
Not doing stupid things like taking oath/mocking, running ads against very popular sitting Gov.
You can’t win election like this. If you can’t win you are good for debating in some college lounge.
Better take job as Professor.
Trump is a fusion of Machiavelli and New York values. It’s not only about winning. Lots of politicians win. Winning with an agenda conservatives can support is what matters, not winning with the Trump New York values - abortion, non-traditional values (three wives), gay marriage, pro-government, big government, crony government.
The only guy in the equation who has actually won political office clearly needs to be lectured to by those who have not. Both you and Trump.
And the objective when Ralphie's dad entered the contest "Great figures in American literature," in which he was victorious because he came up with the correct name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse, was to win a major award.
Who cares that the major award was the world's ugliest lamp?
Who cares that conservatives end up "winning" with a guy who has spent a lifetime defying virtually every conservative political principle?
After all, winning is the only thing that counts, even if you win garbage!! You still WON!!! Yippeeeeeee!
It is. Just ask Jonathan Gruber.