You are forgetting the fact that in everyone of those instances where Trump “bludgeoned his opponents” — those opponents started the fight, they attacked him first, over and over and over. Since the Barry Goldwater/LBJ contest, I never saw anything as wicked and as twisted as the attacks on Trump by his own party! Trump just finished the fights they started, Trump just reacted to the vicious attacks from every quarter. Trump is not the bad guy here — THEY ARE, they started as nasty slanderous backstabbers, every last one of them, and they finished as nasty slanderous backstabbers.
And by the way, while Trump is not an orator, he has a way about him that appeals to people and he gets his points across. Furthermore, his published position papers are well thought out and on point, so I don’t see how you can say he is not strong in the policy realm.
You could not be more wrong, Trump’s defense against these lying corrupt opportunists, is a good offense. Who cares whether these puny self-serving corrupt aslo-rans endorse him or not.
You are mixing Trump with Romney. Romney is the one who turned on his opponents, who had not slandered him or attacked him, and “bludgeoned” them into non-viability, not Trump.
These dishonorable liars, who picked the fights with Trump in the first place, deserved what they got. And I hope with all my heart their political careers are over!
I agree with what you said about Romney, IMO if he ran the same way in the General as the Primary I believe it would have been a very close race in 2012, ugly but close enough for it to have been competitive IMO.
I disagree with you about who drew first blood during this Primary Season I overwhelming belive it was Mr. Trump but that really doesn’t matter at this point.
The vitriol directed at Mr. Trump outside of the candidates was quite agressive and I think out of bounds, but with regard to the candidates attacking each other I don’t think the Donald took a backseat to anyone when getting down and dirty, we’ll just have to disagree on that.
As for the point of the article and thread: I think it is what those withholding their endorsements and their supporters withholding their votes and what they believe or perceive. That is unless the numbers indicate that Donald Trump can win regardless, and if that’s the case, to paraphrase Mrs. Clinton, what difference does it make if they endorse the nominee?