Conservatives and the conservative journals of opinion are generally deeply alarmed by the Presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and many say that under no circumstances will they endorse or back Trump in any way, fashion, or form.
This includes, among others, the following:
THE NATIONAL REVIEW
THE WEEKLY STANDARD
REDSTATE
THE BLAZE
Bill Kristol
Jonah Goldberg
Erick Erickson
Glenn Beck
Robert Kagan
Max Boot
Mark Levin
Stephen Hayes
George Will
Mona Charen
Ross Douthat
Charlie Sykes
David French
Jennifer Rubin
This is far from a complete list, but the numbers are growing daily.
They see Trump destroying the conservative movement for a generation or more, and are determined to take him down, even though they have no clear alternative to vote for.
Professor,
Some on this list only have themselves to blame. Years of accusations for both Democrats and for candidates they mocked as RINO brought to the forefront someone like Trump, who truly cannot be labeled anything but a caricature
Status of the election race so far. http://bluevirginia.us/2016/06/6-27-2016-stand-2016-presidential-election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-mcdonnell-case-supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-prosecute-corruption/2016/06/27/dedf4baa-3c81-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-low_corruption-0844pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
(Re: Supreme Court decision of McDonnell case – They should be making it easier, not harder.)
Totally in agreement, Paul.
Princess Leia, the election analysis is very close to what I have forecast on this blog.
Pragmatic Progressive, this Supreme Court case will make more corruption likely, and further undermine the faith of the American people in their government.
Princess Leia,
From that “Status of the election race so far”…the author, Dan from Nevada, should add Georgia to “Toss Up.”
Rank of states carried in 2012 by Mitt Romney, a total 24 for 206 electoral votes, had Dan from Nevada four listed tossups among Romney’s bottom five. To be more precise:
20. Indiana (a 2012 Republican pickup) +10.20 percentage points
21. Missouri +09.36
22. Arizona +09.03
23. Georgia +07.80
24. North Carolina (a 2012 Republican pickup) +02.04
Interesting fact, with the Democratic pickup year of 2008 (with the first-term election of Barack Obama), was that about 12.5 to 13 million raw votes shifted Democratic. (Republican George W. Bush won his 2004 re-election by just over 3 million. Barack Obama won in 2008 by about 9.5 million.)
For a 2016 Hillary Clinton to be leading Donald Trump in polling from somewhere between +10 and +14 is indicative of 13 to 18.2 million raw votes. (There were an average of about 130 million raw votes cast for president of the United States over 2008 and 2012.) What occurs to me is that about every 1 to 1.5 million raw votes shifted is a gain of a state (not carried in the previous cycle). That is, for whichever party. This could be overfitting; but, this could mean at least 5 states would flip from 2012 Republican to 2016 Democratic. (I think, if Hillary Clinton were to win by over 13 million raw votes, it’s more like ten states ended up having flipped.) Those five I mentioned, above, are a good indication.