[Hoot Gibson]

This is what Rush was trying to say that you skipped over, and it wasn't that he is predictable to a fault in supporting the eventual Republican nominee;
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"I still don't think people understand why Trump won this. I don't think they understand at all the reason people support Trump. And the deeper people are entrenched in politics, and the more they are accustomed to the templates and the handbooks and the theories and the playbooks, the less they're gonna understand it. The more they try to plug Donald Trump and his campaign and his personality into the professional politician candidate playbook that they use, the farther and farther from the truth they are going to get.

I've tried to help. During the course of this entire campaign, I've gone to great lengths to try to explain to people what it is about Trump, why he has his supporters, why they support him, and what you have to do to separate them from Trump. Basically, you can't. That's the bottom line. There's nothing any professional politician can do. They've done everything that they knew how to beat a candidate. They threw everything they had at Trump. I mean, the negative ads that they ran against him, these #NeverTrump guys and their PACs in all these states?"[/SIZE]


The Republican Party painted themselves into the corner they now find themselves. The people have rejected the status quo offerings and excuses. Exasperated with the stonewalling and blaming, they have gone around the establishment, and in a sense they might have used one of Trump's more famous lines, and have said to them, "you're fired." In my view, it was just a matter of time until it happened. In any case, I would not have expected you Hoot of all people, to get so hostile with the reality of what has happened. Our dialogue notwithstanding, what happened, happened. I chose a more dispassionate analysis while rejecting the #NeverTrump doomsdayer dogma.

You're a smart man, but you're not smart enough to hang your own obsessions on me. Time and time again you have said you were done wasting time reasoning with me, only to go back on that and make yet another post. You speak as if you consider yourself quite the dominant force on here, as you imagine that you have really put me in my place. You might want to consider that your perceptions and arguments might not be as overpowering as you may suspect.

The fact is, you don't seem to able to tolerate or abide people's opinions that oppose your own. Now, if it was your intent to reclassify Trump supporters with the beasts of the field, that would be consistent with the presumptive arrogance in which you, in my view, have dealt with anybody who has disagreed with you since you suddenly (and by that I mean within a couple hours time) went from a likely Trump supporter to a #NeverTrump.

As I said, respond anyway you choose. If the recent past is any indication, I'm certain we've not yet plumbed the depths to which your contempt can take us. You had every right to say the things you did, and I had every right to question them.

You have a right to belittle, ridicule, and insult anybody that you want, TRT. Exercising that right recklessly does not make you right. You are mistaken to believe that I hold people in contempt who plan to vote for Trump. I hold people in contempt who lie and insult me on a regular basis. Not many BGR members hold that distinction.