[TheRealThing]

I don't see any evidence that Republicans have tried to find the perfect candidate. Reagan was a great president. George H. W. Bush was a solid president, with whom I had some disagreements. Since that time, if Republicans have been trying to field the perfect presidential candidate, then they have failed miserably to deliver, IMO.

I do disagree with you about Trump, but there is always a slim chance that anybody who gets elected may exceed low expectations. Not much was expected of Truman and he turned out to be one of the Democrats' best presidents in modern history. If Trump gets elected, then I will hope for the best, as I do with all presidents, but if he does not deliver, it will be a short honeymoon.

Trump is the best choice from among the field. They were all singing amnesty and social justice until he proved sanity still prevails. Only after it became obvious that the voting public had not slammed the door on Mr Trump and his candor pertaining to his stated policies, did courage seem to find it's footing in the rest of the field.

In my view, American exceptionalism is already lost. What we're about to find out is whether this nation can undergo a patriotic and moral resurgence, or if people who don't contribute anything to the common good, along with massive and mindless immigration policies and the sexually deviant, are going to continue to pull all of our strings under the authority and might of the federal government or not.