Arguments for Trump:
1) He can win. He can do this by attracting enough Reagan Democrats with his positions on trade and immigration. Watching Romney flounder taught me that sadly a candidate claiming to be a traditional Conservative cannot win in the current environment.
2) He will shove back hard against the Clinton machine and the Democrats’ Saul Alinsky crap. All others in the GOP have shown they just don’t have the stomach for that.
Bingo! Cruz’s downward spiral towards oblivion starts this week. Preaching to the conservative radio talk show crowd will not win you a plurality. The guy is just not likeable or electable in the general. Reagan WAS likeable, did not come across as strident, angry and preachy like Cruz does. Amazing to me that so many Conservatives who rail against the lawyer hegemony in Washington are so willing to elect a lawyer who has never had a job besides lawyering. I guess if you parrot bullet points of the Conservative agenda that gives you street cred with the purists.
Good points. One has to pretend we don’t live in a thoroughly twisted 2016 to rule Trump out because of a perceived boorishness.
What other candidate has stuck to unpopular positions or (as recently) called out a live debate audience as paid shills? Republicans and conservative purists love Trump as a sin-eater, as a bulldozer clearing the way for them to do the usual number on us once elected.
I’m willing to risk it on Trump based on the serious, measured man I’ve seen in the one-on-one interviews (including the older ones).
1) highist disapproval numbers of all candidates democrat or republican. People like him less than hillary.
2) depends on what version of trump shows up at the time of need.
While I will support him in the general I do NOT think he is the man for the job.
That is one of several things that turned me from a Cruz supporter to a Trump supporter.
There I things I like and don't like in both, but those things I like about Trump tell me he's the one to vote for, and that's one of the reasons.