PawPaw wrote:Who was the standard-bearer before Reagan? Eisenhower?
You must be joking. Eisenhower, like Trump, became a Republican about 5 minutes before the race. He would have been equally comfortable (and ineffective) as a Democrat, he was just waiting to see whether Truman would hang around for his third term.
The last conservative before Reagan was Coolidge.
So, if Trump is the nominee, you'll vote third party and help elect Clinton? (Actually, I believe Sanders will be the nominee for reasons that will become apparent later in the spring, but I digress). Either way, a Sanders or Clinton presidency will be a continuing disaster and an extension of the Obama years. The #NeverTrump guys have lost their minds.
Don't be ridiculous. If Trump is the nominee, I'm voting for Shrillary. Unless/until she gets indicted or suffers sudden "health concerns". In which case it's Sanders all the way.
I'd rather have an honest communist than a faux-Republican.
Oh, and Trump never claimed (that I'm aware of) to be a conservative. Just a Republican.
He is neither. Unless somebody wants to argue that Michael Bloombozo is a Republican too. They are two cuts from the same cloth.
Trump is an opportunistic chameleon, and the one thing you can count on is that anything he says is demonstrably false.
And given the behavior of the quislings in Congress, I doubt the few conservative members will bother to wage an effective guerrilla campaign to stop his nonsense and backstabbing if he's elected.
With Shrillary or Bernie in the Oval Office, there's some
slight shred of chance that in order to gain re-election, they might, from time to time, sandbag their efforts.
Which will do until we can get Ryan and McConjob tossed out in the next round of primaries, and try again for some better leadership.
6-2-even the Republicans lose both houses in two years anyways, unless they start doing what they were sent to DC to accomplish.
At this point, an Iranian or Nork nuke in the vicinity of the Capitol during the next State of the Union could be the greatest blessing to befall the nation in 100 years.
Besides, when the economy goes into a shambles, I want Clinton's or Bernie's sticky fingerprints all over it, and HopeyDopey's too, rather than any wildass possibility that it gets blamed on even a nominal (R) like Trump.
And between Trump, Sanders, and Clinton, whoever gets this election victory, they're going to be a one-term president, barring a miracle.
And I see no miracles anywhere from here to the horizon.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
