I don't know why some people seem to think a Cruz or Rubio or Kasich has a better change to beat Clinton than Trump does.
Look how easily all three of those have been exposed during the primary system. None of them are any good and voters see right through them. They are just more of the same. Cruz the religious, dominionist, "I know what the founding fathers think" wack job. Rubio is the pretty-boy career campaigner who hasn't done **** except smile for the establishment. And Kasich is the career government RINO who in most years is what ends up being the nominee and then loses because he has no passion, plays the nerd roll and is too stiff to turn out the vote.
Those are the same three categories EVERY ******* election cycle for the Republicans. And the only reason one sometimes wins is because the democrats aren't much better.
But as the country continues to become more red/blue and less purple, those three categories are a losing proposition on the national level for Republicans.
There has to be a 4th category of candidate. And what has to evolve is the same as Europe: a party based NOT on religious/moral tenets but on Nationalist principles of border control, strong self-interest motivated military, pro-manufacturing and small business, reasonable tax policy, slower government growth and trade reform.
These issues can cross the current blue/red separation in our country and are ripe to be used to coalesce a HUGE voting block to win states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Nevada.
What Trump is also proving is that we're tired as voters of pansies. We want some strength again at the top. Someone that isn't going to take **** from the media, the other party or other world leaders. And it has to be genuine. Cruz and Rubio talk a big game, but they look like their acting. They are both nerds at heart and everyone knows that.
Democrats will argue Trump's "strength" is being a bully, and maybe it somewhat is, but at least that part is real. He probably was the bully in school. But everyone else in this race is the bullied and that's not good either. What's that phrase? You grow up as either the Wolf, the Sheep or the Guard Dog. Most people are sheep. A few try to take advantage and they are the Wolves. And then a even greater few are the Guard Dogs that protect the Sheep from the Wolves.
This country is hungering for a Guard Dog, but we're also so tired of Sheep that we might just want a Wolf too.
Trump is certainly not a sheep. We're just banking on he's more Guard Dog at this point than a Wolf (which I'm sure at many points in his life he was).
