victor809 wrote:... I'm just saying... It's your party, you could put a better human being through the primaries...
(Reread your last paragraph. You literally just did what you accused the "many on the left" of doing. Why would you assume that it was "many" treating the Obama's like royalty, and then say they project all trump supporters as doing the same?)
Notice I very rarely speak in terms of "many" or "all the.." I'm very specific. If I say it looks like tail has Cheeto dust on his lips, it's because I believe he does, not because I believe anyone who says they like something trump did does.
Victor, again, you have missed it, even though I have posted it many times. Republicans are not MY party. I registered Libertarian way back in '96, when I just couldn't bring myself to vote for Bob Dole. I have voted Libertarian in every election since then till '16. Since I am not a registered Republican, I can not vote in the Republican Primary here in NJ, so I had no hand in giving Trump the nomination, nor will I have any hand in choosing their 2020 candidate.
2016 was the first election in 20 years that I voted for a non-Libertarian. To me, Gary Johnson was just a Bernie Sanders lite. If we had run a Ron Paul type candidate, I may have voted for him instead of Trump, but we didn't so it was either Trump or Clinton. As a right leaning Libertarian, the choice was clear. The main stream Republicans did not elect Trump. A number of them are "never Trumpers" and did not support nor vote for him. It was blue collar Democrats and Independents like myself that swung the election to him.
Due to all the whinny, hissy fits and vile hatred coming from the radical left, I, along with a number of these blue collar Democrats and Independents are considering holding our noses and voting Republican in the mid terms. The radical left has no clue how many hard working middle class Americans they have alienated. They'll find out come November.
David (dpnewell)