You persist in this idea that Trump does well against Hillary. And yet you’ve offered not an ounce of backup evidence for that idea. Crowds are never an indication of what will happen in an election. Polls are not perfect, but they’re far better prognosticators than crowds. And yet the polls show Trump doing consistently worse than any of the other major candidates against Hillary. I’ve presented them to you, with links, time and again. I’m not going to repeat my wasted efforts here, because you’re never responded to that evidence. Suffice to say they show that he loses badly—worse than any other major Republican candidate—with Independents. He does the same as other candidates with Democrats—that is to say, they don’t support him. It’s the Independents who can’t stand him. They like Rubio and Carson, especially Carson, very much, and that’s why Carson does best against Hillary.

You can ignore the polls or you can discount them. But it’s telling the you merely assert your opinion over and over with nothing whatsoever to back it up except Trump’s popularity with his supporters, who of course are wildly enthusiastic. Let me remind you that Romney drew tremendous and enthusiastic crowds, much more so than Obama did, right up to the time Romney lost to him.

As for him being electable, I don’t see why not if Hillary is electable. Trump is absolutely NOT electable as he seems to me to be a crazy clown. Even if he sometimes says “the right things” are Islamic terrorism, I don’t trust him. I don’t think most people do and if it came down to the wire against Hillary, I think she’d sweep in. She would seem like the safer choice.

Executive experience involves leadership. If Trump had no leadership skills, he couldn’t have built an empire of around 70 major properties across the US and around the world. He needed to work with construction companies, unions, government agencies at all levels, politicians and his own people to make that happen. Admittedly, four of his properties in Atlantic city went bankrupt. So did almost everybody else in Atlantic City. He used bankruptcy laws to protect the rest of his properties, as does anyone in business. The question with Trump is whether his leadership and negotiating skills transfer to the presidency. That will be answered when he starts talking about who he is going to appoint. So far, he has only talked about Carl Icahn, another business magnate.

Ben Carson’s executive experience seems to have been limited to his leadership role in neurosurgery. Wonderful as that was, I don’t see it as demonstrating the necessary executive ability the country needs in its President. His web-site is rather short on specifics. Unlike Trump’s, it says nothing about illegal immigration. Going to the ever-reliable Wikipedia (I checked the quotes), I read:

In the Washington Times, Carson wrote: “Once illegals have legal status, it will be difficult to deny them any of the multitudinous entitlements that are freely distributed throughout our society.” Carson believes that illegal immigrants should be able to register as guest workers and have a pathway to apply for permanent resident status.[87]
In August 2015, Carson said he was “suggesting we do what we need to do to secure the border — whatever that is”. Carson proposed using drone strikes, although not on people – “I’m not talking about killing people. No people with drones.” Instead, the drone strikes would be used on “the caves that are utilized to hide people” illegally entering the United States from Mexico as “those caves can be eliminated”. Additionally, “drones can help with the surveillance”.[114][115]
In September 2015, Carson said that due to the difficulty in deporting illegal immigrants, he would instead prioritize sealing the borders of the United States, which “in the Carson administration that would be done in the first year”. He also said that “you have to also turn off the spigot that dispenses the goodies so that people don’t have any incentive to come here”.

The idea of using drones to bomb caves in order to halt illegal immigration sounds a little strange. The illegals don’t have to hide on the Mexican side of the border and bombing caves in Mexico could be construed as an act of war.

Anything that gives illegals legal status without forcing them to re-enter the country legally is amnesty, pure and simple. And what’s to stop the next Democrat President from creating a pathway to citizenship for those illegals granted legal status? The temptation for a party as crooked as the Democrat party to add 11 million new Democrat voters would be irresistible. GOP candidates like Bush and Kasich are going nowhere precisely because they support some form of amnesty.

Once Carson’s views on giving legal status to Illegals are widely advertised, his numbers will tank. This election will be about illegal immigration. Obama’s decision to import 100,000 Syrian “refugees” and the recent Paris atrocity will keep illegal immigration at the top. Trump put it there and that is the sole reason why this rude buffoon is leading in the polls. Since he is not bought, he is the only candidate that people trust on illegal immigration. Everyone else is owned by their large donors, and they will support policies advocated by those donors, including open borders, TPP, and a regulatory framework favorable to Wall Street. One only has to look at the way the GOP has betrayed its conservative supporters to realize that most GOP candidates are only conservative when they are running. If the GOP had kept its promises to secure the border, Trump would be no place.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/16/im-a-gay-man-and-mass-muslim-immigration-terrifies-me/

A republican.

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Connecticut-to-Accept-More-Than-1600-Refugees-from-Syria-Governor–350647401.html?abc=2233&_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand

Two Democrat governors (PA an CT) have said they will continue to accept “refugees” (soldier aged middle east men)

My wife saw the 19 minute video going around. She was more moved by that video than any other video she’s seen this year. She’s Mexican. She gets it and more.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/states-slam-doors-on-syrian-refugees/?singlepage=true

Those who have been bewitched by the spell of the great wizard Trump really don’t care, though.

And he’s delegated authority in companies he owns and operates. Why, that means he’ll choose wonderful people in government and be a great president! It’s all clear to me now!

And your reference to his position papers is meaningless. Do you think he wrote them? I think not, and one of the reasons I don’t think so is that he usually dodges questions that ask him to speak about them in any detail. And when he does choose to answer such questions, he sometimes contradicts things that are in the position papers. In other words, he doesn’t seem especially familiar with their content.

I don’t follow your logic. In fact, it doesn’t seem very logical. Trump,among other things, is not used to having any checks and balances to his power. He has no experience working with Congress. He’s good at slogans, though, and bluster, and promoting himself, and cheating on his wives, and making money.

Whatever could go wrong?