Another strawman, @txradioguy It's not a case of "never waste a crisis" for me. I deal with REALITY. Like Rush, I'm the Mayor of Realville.
I was merely stating a fact. The country has moved LEFT. And if you don't know that...maybe you should broaden your sources where you get your news of the day.
That's an articulate argument, DC, and I respect it. If the country's moved to the left, and there's certainly evidence of that, then a left-leaning GOP candidate like Trump might reap votes from the HARD LEFT Hitlery, undercut her base, and win in Novermber. There is a "but" coming, of course.
Trump has cut the GOP electorate in two. Those principled conservatives who would not put Romney or McCain "over the top", will certainly, not vote for Trump. Those conservatives, like me, who have for decades held their nose and voted for whoever the GOP-e slammed down in my face, won't vote for Trump either, because Trump makes McCain and Romney look like bedrock conservatives, and
HONORABLE conservatives, by comparison. The GOP-e is irrelevant; they've always held political power 5x larger than their base support. The GOP candidate could alienate most of the GOP-e (as Reagan did), and will win with solid conservative turn-out. Trump will have neither block of voters.
Of course, Trump will lose all the typical demographics that any other GOP nominee would lose, which is really no big deal and expected, except that he's deliberately forfeited, even
scorned his base. He needs "replacement numbers" from somewhere else, and he won't get them.
Here's the real killer, though. Millennials like my kids have no reason to vote for anybody, and will not. When Reagan won, he got the youth vote too, because I was part of that youth. (Reagan personally signed my Navy commissioning certificate.) Trump's not going to get that.
In fact, the ONLY hope Trump has for eking out a win in November is if Hillary implodes and the Democrats abandon her.
Unfortunately, Democrats do not eat their own. That's a GOP-e trait, now expanded to some element of conservatives who supported Trump. The Democrat's base will show up in historic numbers. Any softening of Democrat support for the butcher of Benghazi will be rallied to her by Trump's bombastic, "true-to-MSM-meme-of-what-conservative's-are", narrative.
Trump loses by a historic margin, AND turns the Senate and very possibly the House, over to the Democrats as well. Hillary declares a mandate for her Administration, and no one will have credibility to contest that, in view of the election returns. Trump and his supporters alone, will bear responsibility for allowing Hillary to be all that she can be, for the next four years. Were it not for my Christian faith, and hope in Gods' promises for my and my family's future, I would be absolutely despondent at the end of this Republic, this Beacon on the Hill for freedom. However, my vote was small, and Trump's momentum was huge, the GOP-e was feckless as usual, and Cruz did all he could.
So be it. It's every man for himself come January, 2017. That cake is baked.
The only other possibility for hope is a delegate revolt at the GOP convention, rejecting Trump and selecting a unifying candidate. However, Jesus Christ is not available for the job as CINC, USA, and the country would probably crucify Him anyway. No such candidate exists that could unify the GOP. Trump has succeeded in demolishing the GOP-e, along with the entire rest of the party of Lincoln.
