He already has the base supporting him. So not sure what you mean with this statement.
ROTFLMAO!!!
IRL, I personally know about 30-50 people that voted for Romney. Out of hundreds, so not a very strong showing, but there it is.
Do you know how many I know that are intending to vote for Trump? TWO. Yes, you read that right - T-W-O.
My brother is in TN and reports likewise
My cousins in MS, KS, and CO report likewise.
I can go right now down to Wallyworld and scan for Trump bumper stickers, and I will guarantee I will find less than four (which was my one-time high record)... Likely I will find one or none.
I have never, even yet, seen a 'Make America Great Again' ball-cap.
BELIEVE ME, you don't have the base. not even close. You haven't had the base since W's first term, and that only barely. Shoot, more Conservatives stand outside your party than in it (including me).
All he lacks now is a hard core among the elites and a few bitter extremists who are angry over Cruz losing. Maybe 10% of the party at most. That said, in a close election that will matter, but lets be VERY clear...that group is anything but the "core" of the party. It is, in fact, the angry fringe...a fringe that believes it should be able to dictate to the other 90% of the party exactly who it can and cannot nominate.
What could have been a 60m strong turnout of the Christian Right will not happen (yet again) this season. You'll be lucky to get what Romney got. That's hardly 'fringe'. And you won't be getting them. Trying to make that up by going up the RINO middle just ain't gonna happen (Just_like_always).
And any anger over Cruz is incidental - I vote for Conservative principles, according to the record. The bare fact of the matter is that your candidate is woefully lacking across the board (starting with his character). There is no way I would vote for him, with or without Cruz - He just doesn't measure up. There is nothing at all you (or he) can do to change that, because his promises are weighted by his record... and his record renders his promises null.
Since I vote for Conservatives, I guess the Constitution Party will get my vote this year... And many I know will be fishing or hunting instead.
A fringe that is loyal only to itself, and believes the rest of us can go jump off a cliff if we don't agree with their choice.
No, it is loyal to the principles of Conservatism. And has been so for half a century. It isn't like you can't see it coming. And it isn't as if you weren't warned. This end is entirely predictable.
Not an easy bunch to share a coalition with, because they believe they are 100% right on everything and the rest of us in the party are RINO's, sycophants, and/or immoral idiots.
It's a simple, simple thing - all you need to do is vote for a candidate that embraces our values and principles along with your own. That's what coalitions DO. Your current offering most decidedly does not embrace those principles... Just another Back East RINO. SOSDD.
Next time, give us someone we can vote *for*. You can have your celebrity, so you can still get all googley-eyed... He's just got to be a Conservative too... Because we don't swoon over the man. We will always look to principles of Conservatism, according to his record (not his promises)
That's how we roll, and you dang well oughta know it by now.