“Your scorecard definition of conservatism is not my definition.”
None of the current three front-runners is perfect, and I will happily vote for any of them against the Democrat nominee. However, Trump supports
1. single-payer national health insurance
2. affirmative action
3. ethanol subsidies
4. the use of the power of eminent domain by private developers for projects deemed to have a “public purpose”
for starters. Those positions are not part of a conservative agenda.
He doesn't support single payer, by the way, but there's no point in getting into it with you since you use a scorecard definition of conservatism to determine who to vote for. That kind of thinking is what got us Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney. It's like the canon of a religion, where Republican candidates and establishment leaders repeat, in rote fashion, that they believe this and they believe that. And then they go to DC, and they work with the Democrats, and always, the needle moves left. When the peasants back home get restless, they give us a show vote. And then get back to what they were doing.
The foundation that supports the entire DC structure must be blown up, imploded, blasted to smithereens. Then conservatives who actually believe the canonical principles, and don't merely recite them, might stand a chance. Until then, it's all mental self-gratification.
The only poll that means anything is the poll in November....