[TheRealThing]

I respect your opinion but respectfully disagree with your position. I most likely would have ended up holding my nose and voting for any of the 17 Republican candidates except for Trump. I think Trump lacks the moral character to be president, just as I think Hillary lacks character. I did my duty to my country when I voted against Trump in the Virginia primary election, but I cannot in good conscience vote for Trump for president because he does not represent my political beliefs any more than Hillary does.

I agree with many of Trump's stated positions on some issues, but I have always weighed candidates' actions more heavily than their words. Trump has been a liberal all of his adult life until he decided that he had a better chance being elected president as a Republican than as a Democrat. He has made huge donations to nearly every major liberal Democrat and RINO in the country. Trump has made large donations to Attorneys General like Pam Bondi when states were weighing whether to pursue fraud cases against Trump University. IMO, Trump's past actions do not match his words.

I do not lump all Trump supporters into the same category as TRT and RunItUpTheGut. Most Trump supporters believe that they are supporting the lesser of two evils - not the second coming of Ronald Reagan. That is a reasonable position to hold and it is the same reason that I voted for Dole, McCain, and Romney. As long as I believed that the Republican candidate had a reasonable chance to make a good president, then I found a way to rationalize my votes for less than stellar candidates.

I just don't see the Trump candidacy ending well for this country. Either he will lose to the worst Democrat candidate in history, or he will win and become the most unqualified, reckless, and untrustworthy Republican president in history.

And heaven knows your convictions far outweigh the import of this election, as does your omnisciently precise and inerrant vision into the future. What a burden you must carry.