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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I don't know.. something has changed. I don't think he would have beaten McCain or Romney taking that path, heck he was too scared to run in 2012. The Republican party over the last 4 years alone has gone to far that this path is only now available.
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Because the GOP has spent a decade ignoring reality and science and appealing to the uneducated, treating knowledge as an elitist disease and facts as disposable options.
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wittynickname: That's all true, but why Trump? Why Trump over the equally extreme Cruz or Rubio?
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Cruz is intensely unlikable, at least as much as Hillary Clinton, if not more so. At least Democrats can manage to rally behind her, Republicans all vocally rejected him.
Rubio was just a terrible candidate from the start. This culture of uneducated good old boys who long for the days of the 1950s aren't about to vote for a man who is soft-spoken and friendly. They want the larger than life, Jackie Gleason, "to the moon, Alice!" type of manliness that Trump espouses. Also he's Cuban, and old white dudes don't like voting for minorities.