[Hoot Gibson]

He didn't say he bribed anybody. He said that politicians come to him asking for money. And when they do, they feel beholden to him for his having given it to them. They are thereafter, highly attentive to what he has to say. Sorry, but I'd still call that honesty.

And you said, you don't know he is not who he says he is, or that he will not govern as he says though, I am certain that you feel strongly about it. Perhaps your powers of discernment are superior to mine and you are therefore right about all of this. Time will tell. This business all got very personal to me when I noticed the media become the swamp it is today. That is when the American voter became a manipulated entity, and when I realized the level of dishonesty which permeates the media and the federal government. I am not about to let the National Review or anybody else tell me what I think ever. I loved the way Trump took on the media. At any rate, the truth is out there to be had if one cares to be diligent enough to glean it for himself.

I have done my due diligence on Donald Trump. This morning, I read an article by William F. Buckley from 1990. Apparently he reached the same conclusion about Trump that I have. Maybe Buckley was wrong then and maybe I am wrong now, but it is rare that a person's basic personality changes after puberty, barring a traumatic experience.

Trump claims to be a conservative. It is not my responsibility to prove that Trump is not a conservative. If Trump expects conservatives to vote for him because he is one of us, then he needs to make that case. When I hear Trump speak, I hear an arrogant, obnoxious, narcissistic, demagogic jerk. There is not much Trump can do at this point to change my opinion of him. On the other hand, my opinion of Trump cannot get much worse. :biggrin: