[Impy]

It's extremely sad that the GOP in Washington has been asleep over the past 6 1/2 years, so the resistance movement's leader (almost by default) is ironically an outsider who had shown little sign of resistance himself until about a month ago.

Good insight.

Look, I'm not a Trump fan. I think he's probably a megalomaniac and certainly not a conservative and I doubt he could win an election and think he's running for fun/attention. But I get why so many people are enthralled. Immigration is the hottest hot button issue, and who's the first one to take it up to the level it deserves? Trump. That's a sad indictment of the GOP "leaders".

Trump kinda reminds me of a milkman here in Illinois named Oberweis who once called social conservatives "The American Taliban", he flip flopped and became the a#1 foe of illegal immigration and some conservatives in this state are still obsessed with the idea of him as Governor or Senator even though he's a tremendous loser and chronic self-serving flip flopper. GOP leaders ignore the scope of the illegals problem and this is what happens. ANYONE who takes it seriously starts looking good to people. And Trump is several thousand times more charismatic than Oberweis.

I forget how this goes and where I heard it but the gist goes something like "When there is a dearth of leadership, people will follow anyone who makes an effort".

[LS]

Big difference in Trump and a "milkman": Trump has made billions, negotiated with top guys, and is unafraid of criticism.

And in a way, the "system" (and I hate that word) has made it impossible for even someone like Cruz to tell it like it is in "non-pol-speak").

For example, I heard Rick Perry on a drive-by today and his border solutions were entirely sensible and probably would be effective. And the public heard "zzzzzzzzzz." He went on about how Mexico was not sending us its worst.

Trump says "They at dumping their worst on us and I'll build a fence." NOT "I'll work with congress and reach across the aisle for a solution." I WILL BUILD A FENCE. Five words that any moron or "low information voter" gets.

I totally disagree with him on Iraq, but then he says, "We should have kept the oil." Do you know how that resonates with non-ideological voters? BOOM. I can hear the guy in the corner bar go "Yeah." Setting aside HOW we keep the oil, can you imagine even Cruz saying something like that? Certainly not any of the Seven Dwarfs.

Obama has put is in a new era of celebrity, where old fashioned experience or even consistency in principles are going to do it. Trump so far is the only one in either party who gets it.