Originally Posted by Mutt

I was hoping that the Trump run would show other non-career politician outsiders that you can run for president successfully - but he's one in 100 million, he had the celebrity thing, the billionaire businessman status, and most importantly the outrageous personality and energy to get himself tens of millions of dollars of free advertising - who else can do that?

The Republicans need to re-invent themselves as a party - the moderate establishment goes off and forms a new party and leaves the Tea Party/Evangelicals to themselves. There's no way the moderates can kick out the far right, so they best move on. It's crazy how just 2 parties have existed for over 2 centuries - the Founding Fathers didn't even envision a party system but it didn't take long for them to form.

I really don't want Hillary Clinton to win but I think Trump has scared off a huge number of independents and Democrats who would vote Republican if the candidate appealed to them more than Clinton.