Nailed It

What the Beltway elitists and journalists just don't get:

That sort of political good-old-pols-club solidarity is what angers many people. They are also sick of the carefully parsed and qualified and nuanced and poll-tested statements that are yet another device for avoiding the truth and hiding true motives. They sense that “insiders” with their bespoke suits and college degrees and smooth rhetoric are patronizing them and sacrificing their interests and principles. They get that the constant calls for “civility” and “decorum” are camouflage for the grubby pursuit of personal power and advancement, and a disdain for the common folk. Perhaps that’s why Trump’s dismissal of McCain’s status as a war-hero did not exact the price one would have expected, given the high regard Americans have for veterans. Perhaps many people figured that McCain had for too long made a career out of waving the bloody shirt rather than challenging the progressive status quo bankrupting the country and endangering our security and interests.

That's as succinct a summation as any I could write. The question is whether the GOP elitists will understand what Trump is doing in time to save themselves. Because if they don't, they will lose the 2016 election, whether to the Democrats or to Trump. I can only say this: I will NOT vote for another milquetoast good-ol-boy it's-his-turn political rump roast. I toed the line, as did many others, in 2008 and 2012. I voted for people whom I find mildly nauseating, people of questionable morality who have demonstrated a lack of interest in the well-being of this nation. No more. I will vote my conscience in 2016, and that does not exclude a third party candidate. I am an unregistered conservative and I have no obligation to the GOP; it is their mistake to think that I do. Maybe it's finally time that conservatives and the GOP split the blanket.