Donald Trump's appeal

Since it is apparent Donald Trump is going to be the Republican candidate for president, it’s time to consider what is his appeal. On who have the, as one pundit called them, “disgruntled conservative voters” pinned all their hopes. .

It is claimed Trump has hit a nerve among GOP grass-roots members with a message of we are fed up, especially with the GOP establishment.

Is that nerve the one that also desires to insult veterans, like Trump did with John McCain last July? If these grass-roots members are also military veterans, doesn’t it bother them that their candidate has so little regard for former prisoners-of-war? Or that when Trump had a chance to serve his country in the 1960s he claimed he got deferments for a bone spur in his foot. Yet when politely asked ‘which foot”, he fumbled a few moments and then said “It’s in the records. You’ll look it up in the records.” I can still remember which hand I broke (left) playing football when I was just a kid. But Trump can’t remember which foot had enough pain caused by a spur to keep him out of the military?

Why don’t those grass-roots members get fed up with Donald’s dishonesty, like claiming it wasn’t him posing as his publicist John Miller on a recorded phone call from the early 1990s that he later even admitted was a joke that spiraled out of control? Or his promise to release his tax records, as every presidential candidate has done since 1972, then reneging on it, saying not until after they are all audited (which won’t be until after November 2016) and besides, they would reveal nothing new. That doesn’t hit a nerve when he blatantly lies when confronted?

In Donald's defense, Genesis 19:30-36 says it's okay.

If any of those grass-roots members are female, how can they overlook Trump’s numerous instances of belittling women as dogs, pigs, fat-slobs, flat-chested malcontents, ugly-faced losers, and bimbos? Or when he calls women “basically aesthetically-pleasing objects”, that sexual assault in the military is to be expected, that women should rely on sex appeal, that pregnant women are monsters, or that breast-feeding in public makes a woman a horrible person? How do any of those comments miss a woman’s nerve?

This modest, humble and thought-provoking man tells anyone who’ll listen “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich”, “You can never be too greedy”, I’ll bring back a hell of a lot worse that waterboarding”, and that it doesn’t matter “what the media writes as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful piece of ass.” And yet his base of conservative voters aren’t fed up with such sexist, self-centered and shallow thinking.

Most astounding is the evangelicals who still support Trump. Here is a man who claims he doesn’t need forgiveness from a god because he hasn’t done anything to be forgiven for and referred to Second Corinthians as “Two Corinthians” when asked his favorite bible verse. He also cited the “Eye for an Eye” rule from Exodus 21 as being one that has guided him throughout his life, when that Mosaic Law was repudiated by Jesus in Matthew 5. Evangelicals, this is the man who will represent you to the world...and he claims his version of Christianity will have power when he’s in the White House. Not your interpretation of the bible...his interpretation. And you evangelicals are not going to like it. Because what he means is the Crusades power, Inquisition power, and unrestrained bigotry and oppression power. Is this how you want to be seen?

So much for Donald thinking the Clintons are horrible, dishonest people.

The GOP establishment that the disgruntled grass-roots members are fed up with is being encouraged to swallow its pride and do whatever it takes to keep Hillary Clinton from gaining the Oval Office because she’s a liar and proven deceiver. The patriotic thing to do is to instead put a lying, self-centered, thrice-married, flip-flopping semi-successful, crass, unapologetic sexist in the office. Yep…then the world will finally respect us!

As of May 19^th, Donald Trump has launched a media offensive to reset his campaign. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee is hoping to rehabilitate his image among voters who have been put off by his extreme rhetoric, and address the wrongs he has committed on the campaign trail. His main problem is still his take-no-prisoners style that has spurned Independents and moderate voters. His willingness to goad protesters, encourage violence, and hit below the belt in upending a culture he argues is spoiled by political correctness has also alienated most women, non-whites and moderate conservatives. Unless they all stay home November 8th, there aren't enough people left to get him elected.