As you’ve demonstrated with your eminent domain posts, which by the way are just a tiny portion of what the left can throw at him, all straight out of his own big mouth, he will be subjected to a withering onslaught in the general. Note that these were not dug up by his Republican opponents, they were already in the public domain. David Brock is working feverishly to get the rest of them stockpiled.

Now look at all the dirt and sleaze Trump and the other Republicans have dug up on Cruz – he’s Canadian, or Cuban, he got low interest loans against his own brokerage account that he paid back in full, his wife is an executive on Hillary’s biggest donor, he talked about running for POTUS as a teenager, he made a couple of votes that could be construed in negative ways – my god, the man is evil incarnate.

Same for Rubio – another Cuban, bought a fishing boat, mixed up some charges on his personal and party charge accounts, and did you know this man took a drink of water during his SOTU response? His biggest negative oppo to us is amnesty. Would Hillary attack him with that?

And all those major scandals about the rest, you know, the one who hugged Obama and had people working for him that closed a bridge for a couple hours w/o his knowledge, or the doctor whose father is an isolationist, the other one who plays bass guitar, et al, ad nauseum.

Outside of Trump’s gratuitous insults, this is what they’ve dug up to attack each other with.

My point is that the Republican Party this year has an embarrassment of boy scouts, yet the only one easily vulnerable to the left’s scandal assaults is the one in the lead, who could just as easily have run as a democrat.

Just one of fate’s cruel jokes, I guess.

Trump, as much as you may despise the guy, will give the low blows necessary to blow up Hillary/Biden/Bernie. He’s already shown that. He shut down the ‘war on women’ thing that Hillary was going for with a few crude shots at her husband…that stuck. Suddenly, Bill is hardly seen, losing traction and not the powerhouse he used to be. Crude and dirty works. And Hillary has a PILE of trash that anyone can use against her, if they would just go there. No more nice guy. I want dirty. It works.

If Hillary or any democrat; a continuance on the path to the collective is certain. Any of them will remake America into the E.U.

If Trump, his ‘deals’ will be those agreeable to Reid, Pelosi, McConnell and Ryan.

If Rubio, the legislation passed will be those agreeable to McConnell, Ryan, Reid and Pelosi. As will his executive orders and, Rubio will NOT enforce the illegal immigration laws already on the books.

If Cruz, (will the GOP support such a candidacy or would they rather have Biden?) becomes President, what effective legislation will he be able to pass? Ironically, it’s entirely possible that just like Obama, Cruz will also be reduced to executive orders. As, why would a Congress that hates what he stands for, cooperate?

There came a point where the Civil War was unavoidable. Some saw the approach of the Civil War and even warned of it but because that prospect was too terrible to contemplate, their Cassandras were ignored.

Arguably, we are already at that point, all of us desperately hoping that not to be our fate. And as long as the bullets are not flying over our heads, we will continue to cling to that hope.

I pray that I am simply letting my fears get the better of me but my intuition laughs at my wish that any other fate than war can exist… between those who would eviscerate liberty in service of an ideology at war with reality and, those who see that life without liberty is simply slavery by another name.

That’s just one person, of course. But I’ve spoke to other Democrats who are very dissatisfied with their choices this year.

Yes, that’s one of the ways to sabotage a party’s primary.

It’s one of the huge faults with primaries.

And we have no way of knowing their motivation. Was it to vote for a GOP candidate because they actually would vote GOP in the general? Or was it to throw a monkey wrench into the works? This problem has dogged primaries since the primary system began. It was not a problem with the “smoke-filled room” system, which had other problems.

Some of them are probably voting for Trump because they want him to win the presidency. I wonder how many of them want Trump to beat Cruz and Rubio because they believe Trump will be easiest for the leftwing attack monster to crush.

Big Data and social media can easily be used to defeat HRC. if that’s is your definition of alt-R or activist GOP, then I agree with you.

There is 30 years of material on HRC. She will get 40% even if she is indicted, but the trick is to get enough of the popular vote in the right states to win the Electoral Collage. Winning NE by a huge margin means little for the GOP.

That’s where Trump is vulnerable. There is so much dirt on him that he will lose. Imagine a liberal Super PAC running Facebook videos sent to pro-life voters highlighting Trump’s former pro-choice views. Rinse and repeat on other issues. That’s how Hillary beats Trump. Tougher to pull off with the other candidates.

McCain lost mostly because of the financial crisis and its timing, and his reaction to it. Yes, of course there was activism against him, but I haven’t seen many people say that’s why he lost, and my personal observation is that he lost because he wasn’t a very good candidate.

Romney was a bit different, in that a lot of the attacks against him—and the broad outlines of the later Democratic attacks against him—were set by the Republican candidates during the 2012 primary campaign. The left didn’t really have to do that much.

The other thing that sunk Romney (and many other GOP candidates) was the bias of the MSM. I’m assuming you don’t consider them “activists” (although perhaps they are), but whatever you call them, they were a big part of it.

One “activist” that did help sink Romney was Carter’s grandson, who was at that fundraiser and taped that 47% speech. That was a big big deal.

In addition, hurricane Sandy, which was not due to activists, had the effect of raising Obama’s stature in the eyes of many, and was timed so that it helped him.

For as long as I’ve been writing this blog, and earlier, I’ve read the constant plea of people on the right that what they want is a principled conservative who can articulate conservative principles, Reagan-like, to the American people. That is the opposite of Trump. Maybe Trump supporters were never conservatives in the first place, or maybe they were lying, or maybe they changed their minds. I think it was the first, and/or the third: this is a different group, for the most part. If they’ve changed, they’ve pretty much done a 180, to become pro-statist and pro-tyrant.