Oceander wrote above:
[[ A Donald Trump presidency would do what Obama's victory in 2008 could not do: render republicans the permanent minority party for at least a generation and ensure that the next president is as far left as Obama is. ]]
Hmmmmmmmmm....
Lemmmeeeesssseeee here.....
So... you're sayin' that if Trump wins the presidency as a Republican -- something that the Pubbies haven't been doin' very well for the past couple of decades, G.W. notwithstanding... that it's going to put the Pubbies into the minority?
Somethin' about that logic just doesn't seem kosher to me.
But hey -- you're gonna vote for him anyway, RIGHT...?
I'd love to be the fly on the wall when you step into the voting booth, hating him so much, but determined to mark the ballot for him anyway. Is your face going to be contorted as your conscience grapples with the ballot pen?
Fortunately, I won't have to do that!
Which simply shows why you're an untrustable fair weather friend; someone to be less trusted than one's enemies, who can at least be trusted to consistently want to kill you.
I will vote for Trump if he is the GOP nominee for the general election because I am a team player and a realist and I realize that there are only two options in this election (and will only be so for both the short and medium term): democrat or republican, or liberal or republican, if you prefer. And I realize that there is a certain zero-sum logic to politics and elections (a logic that doesn't apply to economics, contra liberals), which means that, as an old song went (to paraphrase): even if you choose not to vote, you still have cast a vote, and if you do not cast a vote against Hillary Clinton (or whatever other criminal the DNC runs), then you have as good as cast a vote for her; and if you cast a vote for a third party, then you have as good as cast a vote for Hillary Clinton (or whatever other criminal the DNC runs).
I will vote for Trump because as stupid and detestable as he is, he is at least not Hillary Clinton (or whatever other criminal the DNC will run).
The only thing you will see on my face in the polling booth if Trump is the GOP nominee is one of resignation, knowing full well that he will lose, that we will have another 8 years, at least, of a hardcore leftist DNC in the White House, and that Trump will almost certainly have alienated a large number of votes that will be crucial to maintaining GOP control of Congress (or, at the least, to keeping it out of the control of the DNC).
So, my fair weather friend, you can trust me to vote for your Trump if he is the GOP nominee which, I am afraid, is far more than I can say of you should your Trump not be the nominee.