candycorn
Diamond Member
Yeah, the Barry Bonds analogy ain't bad. "Yeah, he's a pain in the ass, his behavior is an absolute embarrassment to the game, but he does hit a lot of home runs".This has been my question about conservative support for Trump all along - for so long I've been hearing how Republicans should not cooperate with Democrats, and then a guy who promises to do exactly that runs away with the nomination.We are angry with the GOP establishment because they promise us they will fight for our principles and then when they get to Washington they betray us and compromise with democrats.
So to show them we are going to nominate Donald trump who is promising to go to Washington and make deals with democrats and expect a radically different outcome
Meanwhile we could have the man the establishment absolutely hates because he actually went to Washington and kept his promises.
It seems to me that we don't really care about the conservative principles we've been saying we believe it. and if this is true I don't want to be a conservative. I want to be free, not put up a bully who promises to do the same things we are angry about.
From what I'm being told, people who support Trump have indeed consciously changed their priorities from down-the-line conservative values to a bull in the china shop who will at least get SOME things they want via give and take.
Obviously they have to be pretty goddamned frustrated to change like that, but I can see them thinking that SOME victories would be better than NO victories.
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What do you think of the theory that maybe he's like Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco or Alex Rodriguez? You have this guy on your team whose a total nutjob, the other players don't like him, he could care less about the team's traditions, standards, or customs. He doesn't run out grounders to short or arrive for BP on time and constantly criticizes other players and the management. But he can destroy the baseball when he comes up to bat. And because of that, you look the other way on his caustic behavior in all other endeavors?
I honestly think it is that at this point...nothing else threads all the needles. I mean, he's not a conservative, not much of a Christian actually saying "it's more fun" to fight, and his plans are garbage from both a constitutional and a fiscal standpoint.... The only thing that he has is the presumptive GOP nomination and the thought that he will be a formidable opponent to HRC. Thats it.
I believe them when they say that they're terribly frustrated and feeling nihilistic. What the hell, toss the Tasmanian Devil in there, at SOME point SOMETHING good HAS to happen. But I think it may go one step further, that at some level they realize the country is moving left whether they like it or not, and they want just a few victories to claim.
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Not a bad analogy yourself.
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