[Beernoser]

The message of the person making this original post is something that thousands of people are going through right now. It’s a form of mourning. Many people have volunteered for Republican presidential campaigns for the last 20 years.

They never thought they’d have to vote for someone as vulgar as Trump, a person who has spent much of his lifetime supporting the worst characters that Republican volunteers have fought so hard against.

It’s a feeling of losing something you’ve fought your whole life for. And yet, it’s happened so it must be accepted.

It will be up to Trump to bring these people along if he is to have any hope of winning at all.

His supporters can help too and the best way to help Trump is probably not to hurl 100 insults at anyone who says they are having trouble accepting that the party they have volunteered for their whole life is no longer going to be what it was.

In the end it will be up to Trump and his supporters to unify the party. From low energy Jeb to Lying Ted to Little Marco to Disgusting Kasich, it’s been a campaign of insults and his supporters have laughed along.

Well now you need to get these people and their supporters back. It won’t be easy but it’s possible, but probably hurling 100 insults at everyone who is disappointed or afraid, or mourning or just disgusted by what they’re going to have to do is probably not helping the party or Trump. How about being nicer people for a while. Stop the insults and start the long effort to bring these people you’ve insulted back into the fold.

[central_va]

Many people have volunteered for Republican presidential campaigns for the last 20 years.

Maybe the "polite" Republican is the problem. That is how we got here.

[austinaero]

“Trump, a person who has spent much of his lifetime supporting the worst characters that Republican volunteers have fought so hard against.”

Please be honest. Let’s start with honesty. Trump has done much more good in his lifetime than supporting Dem and Rep shysters. You write as if that’s the ONLY thing Trump has done.

Come on.

BTW - it’s not about feelings. Trump is probably a proud jerk who wants it his way. Who cares? If he’s going to do great things for the Country, then fine. Let him be a jerk!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Ahem.... your “friends” have a problem with the Hoi polloi and so.... it is that your friends are the problem. They like the trappings of being “conservative” and no nothing about classical liberalism. They are crooks. They cheat lie and steal. They want cheap labor. They want cheap goods. They could give a frig about America. They want an easy life but make everyone else’s life miserable. Damn you, damn Cruz, damn the Clinton cabal, damn the Senate, damn Soros, damn the EU, damn Face-assbook and a hell of a lot more to hell.

[tumblindice]

"someone as vulgar as Trump" "Mizz Drysdale. Go away." Jedediah Clampett

[Lurkinanloomin]

Good post.
I understand the angst of losing a primary, but voting for Hillary is voting for “Death to America”.
There will be some GOPers who will do that.
My gut tells me they will be more than offset by Trump Democrats and new voters who had given up on voting.
The flame wars were always counterproductive, but inevitable when tempers flare and tension is high.
I lurked through 2008 and 2012 and the opuses and purges that followed.
Pissant was right with his support of Duncan Hunter, but got deranged when he lost and was zotted.
Some good freepers opused out because Romney was a liberal too far.
There are quite a few among the Cruz supporters I hope we don’t lose, the ones zotted so far have actually improved the place, IMHO.

[reaganaut1]

Excellent post.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Any potential voter who'd genuinely feel better served by the Butcheress of Benghazi in the long run is entirely welcome to cast their vote for her, with my blessings; or else sit out the election altogether and sulk, if that's the way their conscience happens to roll.

They just can't blackmail the rest of us into giving two wet sneezes either way, is all.

[Veracious Poet]

They never thought they’d have to vote for someone as vulgar as Trump...

[GingisK]

I didn't "hurl insults". I merely pointed out that conservatives are not people who are all made from the same mold. The veiled insult is those who insinuate that I am not conservative just because I have liked Trump all along.

You took it as an insult because you must have a chip on your shoulder ... the hallmark of US politics as of late.

[mkjessup]

Once again, we are subjected to a round of "oh, poor widdle ol' us" from someone who states that Trump is "vulgar" and that proves right there that you're just one more Trump-hater, unable to see beyond your damn nose, and you and those like you think that because your candidate (whoever it is or was) turned out to be the proverbial pile of *FAIL*, that it is somehow our responsibility to treat you people with kid gloves and murmur soft little nothings into your ears, *poor babies*.

You write about Trump "insulting" people and his supporters "laughing along" but not a word about the widespread, unrestricted and full throated insults, abuse and hatred ALL directed at ONE man, from the left, from the right, from the 'RATS, GOPe, media, bloggers springing up like toadstools in the meadow, screaming invective, and that includes our own home grown contingent right here on FR and they saw nothing at all wrong about laughing away at THAT.

Can you say "double standard"? I'm sure you can, it's staring you right in the face. Give us a damn break.

Would you be urging and clamoring for such tender compassion and consideration if it was Trump who had been mathematically eliminated but was doggedly clinging to some false and illusive hope that he could somehow beat Cruz at the convention on a second ballot or some craziness like that?

HELL no!! You would be hammering Trump supporters at every turn, telling them they had picked a "loser" and slinging around every kind of personal insult that you so piously deplore. Don't try to deny that, you know that would be the case with nearly every Trump-hater around here, their roaring would rise to an even greater crescendo.

Here's the bottom line: one of my favorite political writers was Finley Peter Dunne, who said "politics ain't beanbag" and he was absolutely right, it is NOT a sport that anyone should get into in ANY capacity if they're not prepared to experience or observe utter devastation and destruction of their candidate, their cause or themselves if they become an integral part of it, because that's the nature of the game, fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, some causes win, some causes die.

We are all individually responsible for the choices we make, and if we choose wisely, we are validated by those choices. If our choices fail to deliver what we hope for, there is no one to blame for that except for ourselves. It doesn't matter. Quite bluntly, nobody cares. Choose better next time.

Enough of this obsessive-compulsive need for group hugs, community weeping and wailing because a political campaign is going in a direction some people are unhappy with.

As Trump himself has said (and would say):

DEAL WITH IT.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

In the end it will be up to Trump and his supporters to unify the party.

WE are unified! How 'bout you comin' 'round?