Voting For Trump With Nose Held

WE'VE ALL GONE TO WEDDINGS knowing, just knowing that the bride and groom were making a terrible mistake, that it would never last. Usually, we were right. We've all met people and realized from the moment we met that we would never be friends. At first, nobody but nobody thought Donald Trump would hang around. Everyone assumed that he would shoot himself in the foot with his mouth. And he still might. Its still early. Right now we're all trying to recover from the shock that he has actually become the republican candidate, that he has gotten to where he now is. And somehow, as we continue to watch this bizarre, unlikely, volatile marriage between the Donald and the Republican party, we have the foreboding sense that something's going to happen, that it will never work out, that it will all come crashing down, somehow. Already there are signs. Even the leaders of the party are losing patience with Trump's irrational behavior, his anger, insulting comments, his racism. They are starting to tell him to cease and desist, to suddenly become more "presidential", and as we all know, the Donald doesn't take criticism well; it usually inspires him to only increase, or 'double down" as we like to say, his bad behavior. Trump is not the candidate most republicans want, but he is the one they've got, and they're stuck with him, for better or worse, which makes their situation terribly awkward at best. And its likely to get worse before it gets better. The real question is: exactly how much do the republicans hate Hillary? Enough to support a loose cannon? Enough to hold their noses and support a candidate who responds to his own bad behavior by increasing it? Are they really willing to go to this extreme to elect a president who appear more closely aligned with their conservative agenda? You almost feel sorry for their dilemma. Almost, but not quite. In a way, its rather funny.