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I would NEVER request you to go anywhere else. I like listening to people that don’t agree with me. I know what is reasoned discourse and what is bullying crap.

You are willing to vote for someone that is playing a siren song...just what you want to hear. Which is fine. Sirens played to sailors and wreckage was the result. Donald Trump uses abrasive and obnoxious rhetoric. It causes voter suppression. Doubt it? You use abrasive and obnoxious techniques to support your candidate. It causes voter suppression. Doubt it?

Donald Trump has no consistency of philosophy over the decades, years, months and sometimes days. His treatment of women will be Trumpeted when the nominees go head to head. “You know, it really doesn`t matter what (the media) write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” will make a great campaign slogan doncha think? How about: “Excuse me, you dropped to your knees?” Trump interrupted.

“Yes,” Roderick responded.

“That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” Trump said.

Tell me a Republican that could recover from those comments...and there are more just in that category. Tell me a Republican presidential candidate that could have been a democrat, republican, independent, and a republican again, just in the last eight years?

Donald Trump has bragged about buying politicians and in one of the more humorous campaign moments showed the actual cell number of a politician seeking favor. People complain about politicians taking money, but without people like Donald Trump they would not get any money (while selling the rest of us out). Why do you believe a casino owner will giving you what he promises? The four bankruptcies are instructive in what he said. He did not go bankrupt, his companies did. He used his name to sell other people who did lose money on his bankruptcies...his name, but not his money. I won’t go into eminent domain, that is too easy.

Donald Trump does not have a history of being a republican, by actions or by party choice. He has a history of alienating people who disagree, even those he will need as allies. He has a problem with understanding what this campaign means...he did not have a ground game for the second vote? And he claims to be a great deal maker? This was not a difficult nor hidden process. Extend that to EVERY MAJOR promise he has made. He won’t do the legwork to get it done. He certainly did not hire the best and the brightest soon enough in this campaign to guarantee victory on first ballot. MAJOR NEWBIE MISTAKE...and not from a lack of money or access.

I’m conservative. Bernie is a non issue as he has the Trump problem without the money. He is not a democrat. He does not have a shot. Trump is not a republican but is only still in because he has access to things only a billionaire can command. Corruption.

All of a sudden, I see the whole republican party acting like three year olds going into a presidential election.

I doubt anyone could articulate enough to charge me with being ignorant, you would have to make that case, and from the above I believe you would have trouble. Self-righteous?
No one has convinced me the above is wrong. Calling me a self righteous A hole is interesting but that is where the Trump campaign has gone. It is just a tactic, but the real question would be, do you use that tactic when it is appropriate and leave that hammer in your tool-belt when you need a screwdriver.

I hope that Jim Robinson does not ZOT you over this. This is a religious fervor, not a rational one, and I would hope that you get many more years of enjoyment out of this site. I will.

But there are things you should takeaway from this post.

Reasoned people believe Donald Trump is a losing candidate even if he wins the nomination, and it is an easily seen beforehand for articulable reasons.

Reasoned people can believe and articulate that Donald Trump is not a conservative, a republican in history or deed, cannot stand a simple process that he cannot use money power or influence to muck with the fair playing field.

I won’t ask you to examine your own positions on this, that is strictly up to you. Name calling, invective, and histrionics does not work as a tactic on me. It is a poor substitute for reason.

The reason you should listen is the fact that I am not alone. Reagan’s eleventh commandment was there for a reason, when it is broken...republicans lose. Trump broke it with a tactic he overuses...”counter punching”. I believe many of those were also low blows. Others do to. You will need them later, but they may be gone.

Never Trump