Soon after voting for Ross Perot in 1992, I sobered up, had a "what did I do?" revelation, noticed Bush and Perot NOT in office, and began a process of maturing politically.
Since then the GOP has run Dole, McCain and Romney--all lost. But I voted for them, and would do so again.
The democrats love when "conservatives" split their votes. They chuckle over the "virtue signaling," moral protestations, etc.
Trump is doing most of the conservative governance, that conservatives have said they wanted over the previous election cycles.
The thing about splitting votes is that this election split the Democratic votes also. Many voted for Trump. Lots of Conservatives had a problem because Trump and his family have been liberal. This article is an excellent look at who voted for Trump and why.
Can the Republican Party Keep Trump Democrats?
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442347/donald-trumps-election-win-white-democratic-voters-went-republicanby Henry Olsen November 21, 2016 4:00 AM
The voters Trump picked up do not fit neatly into any of the GOP’s pre-Trump factions. The victory of Donald Trump surprised virtually all political observers. Many since have focused on Trump’s record-high 39 percent margin among whites without a college degree. Few have focused on what this means: Trump — and the Republican party — owe the presidency to millions of whites who have largely voted Democratic for years. The implications of that for the future of the Republican party are immense.
Trump’s appeal to white non-college-educated Democrats and independents is clear with even a cursory glance at the election map. Take closely balanced Michigan, which Trump leads as of this writing by 12,000 votes. He carried the state by winning all but eight counties, including historically Democratic places such as Saginaw, Bay, and Gogebic counties. A Republican has not carried the first two since Ronald Reagan in 1984. Gogebic, a 92 percent white county on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, hasn’t voted for the GOP since 1972.
The pattern is identical in other midwestern states that Trump won narrowly. He carried Wisconsin largely because he won ten white, historically Democratic counties in the southwestern part of the state that even Gore and Kerry won in their races against George W. Bush. Most of these counties had not been carried by the GOP nominee since George H. W. Bush in 1988 or Reagan in 1984; Republicans had not won Pepin and Kenosha since 1972. Trump swept Iowa by winning virtually every eastern county, places that had voted Democratic in every election since 1988. Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County last went Republican in 1988, while Ohio’s Trumbull County had been Democratic since 1972.
These voters do not fit neatly into any of the GOP’s pre-Trump factions. If they were motivated by social conservatism, they would have backed George W. Bush. If tax cuts were important to them, they could have backed any of the GOP’s last four nominees. But Chamber of Commerce Republicans can’t count on their support either. These voters are workers, not bosses, and they view corporate-centric policies with a very jaundiced eye.
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