[Hoot Gibson]

Hoot-- was being not serious but being serious on a couple of reply's.
Know your not stupid as you make some great points and commentary on this site but point was the population as a whole on the Grubber deal.
His statement being upheld as looks like Hillary a shoe-in and a great number of voters supporting a socialist? What's up with this picture?

I don't disagree with Gruber and you about the stupidity of people who fell for Obamacare. The truth is Obamacare is much more like the system Hillary promised during her campaign against Obama than what he promised.

My problem with Trump is that he does not seem to be taking the campaign seriously. I encourage you to look at Trump's negatives buried in the details of recent polls. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll was released today that shows Trump losing head-to-head to Hillary by a 50-40 margin. The same poll shows Hillary beating Cruz by three but shows both Carson and Rubio beating her by narrow margins.

I believe that a good conservative can appeal to independents and moderate Democrats, just as Reagan did in the 80s. Trump is not a reliable conservative and his apparent tendency to speak before he thinks will cost him any chance of winning a general election, even against a criminal like Clinton.

Like Trump, Ben Carson is ill prepared to be president, but Carson seems to be working hard to get up to speed on issues and when I listen to him, I do not get the feeling that he is speaking down to me or assuming that I am as stupid as a typical Hillary supporter.

I hope that I am wrong about Trump, but it seems to me that he is simply relying on his celebrity and trying to play a presidential candidate without the benefit of a script. Time will tell.