Would you vote for Trump in a general?

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No, definitely not.

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51% of our country voted for a bigger moron less than seven years ago. What brutish things should be done to them?

Eh.  Bush will be looked on a lot kinder by posterity.  Consider all of the loons that have come out of the woodwork since he left.  Hell, people in 2020 might think Dubya as "the man who held the GOP together before its wilderness years" or some such.

I'm sure in 10 years many remaining progressives will look fondly on the man for expanding medicare, waging humanitarian wars overseas like their hero Obama and bravely standing up to the lunatic fringe in both parties that questioned whether we should bail out the starving CEOs of goldman sachs and GM. He almost sounds as good as Nixon.

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Trump is basically the Non-Mormon Romney.

If you don't like Romney because he's Mormon or a flip-flopper, then Trump may be appealing as a Northeast Liberal Rich guy.  

Trump is basically just as liberal as Rudy, but Trump may change his positions on abortion, gun control, gay marriage, environment, for political purposes.

One big difference is Trump has been publicly for reducing immigration on top of his anti-China stance and criticism of NAFTA the last 12 years or so, plus he's been courting the News Max crowd for awhile now. He appeals to a lot of the 'law and order,' 'seal the border' talk radio crowd for a reason. Of course it's probably all for show given his wife and his contacts and everything, but who cares.