Hey you Republican lemmings! Donald Trump is not a protest vote! [View all]

[bulloney]

I can't begin to count the number of conversations I've had with friends and relatives who have expressed disgust over the apparent upcoming Presidential election between Trump and Clinton. Most of these discussions have been with Republicans. And they all go something like this: "I don't care for Trump, but he speaks his mind against the current establishment and I'm voting for him as a protest vote."

Newsflash! Trump is not a "protest" vote. He's the nominee of one of the two major parties. A protest vote would be for a third party or write-in candidate. All these people are doing is rationalizing some excuse to vote Republican again.

I've said for years that the Repubs I know would vote for a Hitler/Stalin presidential ticket if they ran as Republicans. And they would rationalize that Hitler/Stalin support the sanctity of life and believe in all of the things that Republicans claim they stand for (but rarely support candidates who carry out those beliefs).

Unless something radical comes out of nowhere and it does not become a Trump-Clinton race, I can't see how Trump doesn't get elected. This country is dumb enough to do this.