It is Decision Time

The rock solid conservative base will not support Trump under any circumstances.  Neither wills the conservative base be supportive of either of the establishment candidates who are remaining in the race.  These establishment candidates are Rubio and Kasich.  It is the Democrats have clobbered history that every time that the Republican Party has selected the establishment middles the Republican Party in a major way.

2016 will either be the year of the conservative recapture, or, it will be the year of the year that Barack Obama has extended his tenure by Hillaryizing the next four years.

Constitutional conservatives, evangelicals, Mormons, and Christians of all varieties will not embrace another centrist-mushy middle Republican that is a Democrat-lite. 

The Republican leadership will say Trump isn’t that bad.  He is talking about making America great again.  He is also talking like a true conservative. 

Trump is no conservative.  He is a liberal populist that is only interested in ‘winning’ as Trump defines winning.  He does not define exactly his policy positions other than he is going to build a wall on the southwest border (which he claims he will have the Mexican government pay for) and we will win…which he does not define other than we will be so nauseated of winning we will beg Trump to stop his ‘deals’ and the growth of the economy.  Again, Trump does NOT define how all of this is to be accomplished.

For many the immigration issue is the red line; for others it is the right to life for the unborn; and yet for others it is the namby-pamby wavering on the second amendment is the issue.  There are a large number of issues including term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and elimination of common core and the 10^th amendment States rights issues, and elimination of the IRS and wholesale reform of the tax code are the hot-button issues.

Any fundamental compromise and movement to the mushy-middle establishment will cause the Republican conservative base to stay away from the polls and will guarantee another Democrat victory in 2016.

The mainstream Conservative Base, those evangelicals, conservative Mormons, Jews, Catholics, and conservative Christians and others of all conservative persuasions will never accept Trump as the nominee. 

These conservatives of traditional families demand that their candidate be a true constitutionalist and one who is governed by a strong internal moral code and is governed to the rule of law and has demonstrated through decades of experience by his conservative and can on a moments notice define and defend any conservative cause and issue and what policy he shall take during the first 100 days of his administration and beyond.  There must be no doubt of his commitment to reorganizing the Supreme Court based on the strict interpretation of the Constitution and by an examination of his judicial opinions not by a promise of what he will do into the future.

So the Republican Party has a decision to make.  Are they willing to risk it all by shunning a true constitutional conservative and embracing a populist?  Are they going to reject a proven track record of conservative accomplishments for the notion of electability and a desire to once again move towards the center and the mushy Karl Rove middle?  The risk that the Republican Party is taking is profound beyond any level of comprehension.  If Reince Preibus and the GOP leadership embrace either Trump or any establishment RINO that is electable, the conservative base will do a ‘Romney’ on either Trump or the RINO establishment-selected moderate.

@JCWinegardner