Granted, the chances of this happening are between slim and none.
BTW, this is my first post both here and on TOS where I was a long-timer lurker -- from the days of hanging chads and "get out of Cheney's house". Am grateful for this site -- was shocked and disgusted at the level of discourse over there -- toxic -- not a healthy way to spend time for a political junkie.
#NeverSayNeverTrump http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435235/donald-trump-conservative-votersNational Review
May 11, 2016
Ben Shapiro
Donald Trump could conceivably win conservative voters, but it would require a complete makeover. Ever since Donald Trump ascended to the role of presumptive Republican nominee, those of us in the #NeverTrump movement have come under heavy fire. Using the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency as a threat, the more enthusiastic passengers aboard the Trump Train have attempted to pull us onboard. If we don’t vote for Trump, they insist, we’ll be turning the White House over to Hillary! This is a weak argument for any number of reasons: that Trump is unfit for office of any sort, regardless of his opponent, based on both policy and character; that Trump is a leftist who will claw the face off the conservative movement and then wear it around as his own, Hannibal Lecter–style; that Trump is a vile authoritarian who could mobilize his alt-right, white-supremacist populist base to gut whatever is left of the Constitution, even while bearing the Republican mantle; that Trump will lose anyway, so why smear ourselves with the embarrassing stink of his candidacy for generations to come?
But there is a flaw in #NeverTrump. Its name implies that Trump cannot do anything to win over conservatives who don’t support him now. That’s not the case. #NeverTrump simply means that if on November 8 Donald Trump is who he is today and who he has been during this campaign, we cannot vote for him. We can still be wooed by real change. New evidence provides the basis for revised decision-making.
