If it’s the liberal “elite” they’re angry at, then why choose Trump, a man who has been supporting that liberal elite (the Clintons, Pelosi, etc.) for a long long time? If it’s that liberal elite they’re angry at, then why choose the candidate most likely to lose to the Democrats and Hillary Clinton?

The choice is based on nothing more than his rhetoric.

“The smug style arose to answer these questions. It provided an answer so simple and so emotionally satisfying that its success was perhaps inevitable: the theory that conservatism, and particularly the kind embraced by those out there in the country, was not a political ideology at all.
The trouble is that stupid hicks don’t know what’s good for them. They’re getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists until they believe all the lies that’ve made them so wrong. They don’t know any better. That’s why they’re voting against their own self-interest.”

Is it any wonder there is anger in the hinterland?

That McCain march was like the Christians being persecuted by the Romans and Jewish city leaders. When the world is against you, you only have your own conscience and soul to withstand it.

As for me, that’s why learning aikijutsu is very useful. With lethal force guns and what not, problematic to use it in all circumstances. But Verbal Violence and the light Physical VIolence the Left uses? Oh, I’ve researched a lot of use out of that one.

Fight fire with fire and poison with poison.

People will Learn. Or they Will Burn. Either way.

Some are life-long Democrats who voted for Obama …but they aren’t going to vote Hillary, because they feel betrayed and lied to during the past eight years.

They lied to themselves first of all, it’s a personal vice and flaw that they can’t get rid of voting for Trump their messiah. When they were told by American patriots that Obamacare was a pyramid scheme and full of lies, what did these “life long Democrats” respond with?

I’m a Republican, and will be until the day I die. Of course, I voted for Ford and Bush I. I suppose that if John F. Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, or Joe Lieberman were running against Trump, I would vote for them, but since they’re all dead or kicked out of the Democratic Party, that ain’t going to happen.

As to Trump, of course, there are many things he could do to overcome his negatives, but since he’s his own “best advisor,” he wouldn’t listen.

Maybe a brain transplant. Maybe if my old friends from South Philly, Bruno and Patsy, could get him into a dark alley and say, “Nice little campaign you’ve got going here, Donny. Be a shame if something happened to it.”

No, I can’t see anything happening in the real world that would convert Trump into a non-assh*le.

There’s an old saying, “If you can’t impress them with your intellect, baffle ’em with your bullshit.”

My only hope for this election is that Trump picks a good vice-president, Hillary doesn’t get indicted and replaced by Joe Biden, Trump baffles the Dems with his bullshit enough to win, and then is abducted by aliens. And what are the chances of that?

I overhear conversations when we’re out and about. Lots.

I’ve met seemingly non-political people who – once you indicate you at least won’t have a problem voting for Trump if it comes to that – say they’ll be voting for Trump.

Some are life-long Democrats who voted for Obama …but they aren’t going to vote Hillary, because they feel betrayed and lied to during the past eight years. They don’t trust her to get us out the mess she at least partially caused. (Some think she should be in jail. Jeezus. Democrats! – I don’t see how she skates that won’t damage the party itself.)

Some are Republicans …and they are simply fed up with Washington. They too feel betrayed. They know what hasn’t worked, and are willing to take a chance.

Some are just …people. Their affiliation didn’t come up. But they too express distrust of Washington and politics.

They’re all worried about where we are, and where we seem to be headed.

They ALL loathe Obamacare.

Frankly, the only person I personally know who supports Cruz other than myself is my cousin (whose opinion on politics is generally not reliably credible: he’s never seen a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, gawd luv ‘im lol).

But I don’t hang with political junkies. Mostly my world is worker bees who pretty much prefer to ignore politics, and it doesn’t come up …but this year, well, they’re aware of Trump.

And they are going to vote for him.

I’ve never seen this kind of across the board support in such a varied group of people in …I was gonna say “years”, but heck, I’ve never seen it, period.

I don’t believe the polls at all (which isn’t exactly a surprise, as I have mistrusted pollsters for a long time …so when I hear anyone quoting some poll, I just tune it out as propaganda …I have no faith in ’em anymore).

Frankly I’m more confused by statements like “I don’t know anyone supporting Trump” then being surprised to find some ordinarily apolitical neophyte approving of ‘im.

What pools do those people (some of you) swim in, anyways lol.

…as for me, I’m in one of the groups neo listed recently in describing Trump supporters (though I remain a Cruz guy). I want the GOPe changed or gone. Conservatives need a clean house, and I believe the GOPe is too corrupt to fix.

I’ve figured since it came down to Cruz and Trump, I’m likely to see that desire fulfilled, and the result of the general won’t matter in that calculation.

(Though I think #NeverTrump is shooting your toe to spite your foot. Whatever. I’m not gonna try to talk you out of it. Shoot away.)

I do think the culture has gotten more crass and again, as I said in another comment (this one on naked lunches!) I am not a prude or particularly conservative in some respects culturally. But I remember being taken aback at a FB friend who praised a story of a child who was swearing and using the “F” word while his parents said nothing. This person is Harvard educated and successful. Yes, they live in the Bay Area. They just thought that the parents were being liberated and without hangups letting the kid swear like that. I just shuddered but didn’t write anything in reply. I don’t think that’s right. Maybe that does make me more “conservative culturally” than I would have thought otherwise but it just seems normal for parents to want their kids to not use the “F” word in public. And for parents to generally want their kids to be restrained and polite and not vulgar. But maybe the whole culture is more vulgar now. People mistake liberation for license. They are very different.

Noonan is right to despair but we do have some gems in this year’s mix and one is Cruz. I’ve been shocked that more conservatives, famous ones, don’t get behind him but instead are behind Trump. Some like Coulter are supporting him partly because she sees herself in him, she thinks he is a victim of PC media coverage. She also is obsessed with immigration. I don’t get it though why the Koch Brothers are apparently more pro-Hillary than pro-Cruz… but this is an odd election cycle.

In the end, we may get the President we deserve and not the President we need. I am just not looking forward to that.