[C. Edmund Wright]

You don’t like Trump, I get it. Tell me who to vote for.

Small minds (like yours) focus on personalities...greater minds focus on ideas. The idea here is that Trump is NOT what he so many of you think.

I'll vote for Trump if he wins the nomination, happily so, relatively - but that doesn't change the FACT, he is no conservative, he is philosophically incoherent, and has been for decades. My problem is NOT with Trump. Trump is who he is. My problem is the fan boy nation who will not face the truth.

[proust]

That might be the most bizarre and twisted logic I’ve ever read in any forum. Explains a lot, thanks.

[jjsheridan5]

My problem is the fan boy nation who will not face the truth.

Let me guess ... a truth that only you, one of the "greater minds" who "focus on ideas" can see? You may choose, erroneously, to include yourself in the roster of "greater minds", but you have revealed yourself as just one more person who simply lacks the will or ability to grasp what is actually occurring in the body politic.

[nathanbedford]

I agree with all of your comments on this thread as I agree with your comments generally. I especially agree with your comments in this reply which echo comments I made as long ago as May 22:

Donald Trump is the poster boy for violating Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment. He will tear the image of all the debaters and all candidates down in his narcissistic ambition. Romney did it, yes, but Trump gets personal.

My core objection to Donald Trump is that he is an ideological loose cannon. He cannot be defined as conservative because he is sui generis which is a kind way of saying, a narcissist. He is much in the mode of Ross Perot in many respects including personality traits as well as ideological confusion.

There is also a great deal of ideological confusion among the electorate, hence the appeal of the Ross Perots and the Donald Trumps. Many people believe that political parties are the problem, that an outsider is the solution. The solution is a conservative who can come from outside, or inside, or from Mars as far as I'm concerned but he must hold true to conservatism.

Donald Trump is simply not conservative, he is an opportunist but he is an ideological and philosophical opportunist as well as an opportunist of personal ambition. He is not a deep thinker, he is ignorant of history, he is akin to any huckster, like Bill Clinton, who can read an audience and summon up the sociopathic skills necessary to persuade by pandering. Some of those emotional hot buttons about which he panders include issues with which you and I both agree such as our trade relations with China but about which I decline to be bamboozled.

[entropy12]

The first NON-Trump candidate who includes DEPORT all illegals in their web site will instantly jump to number 1 in my preference.

Anyone? Should I hold my breath?