Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
I think its more a scathing indictment of the GOP base than anything else.
Much of the GOP base was voting for someone else. Unfortunately, several someone elses. Trump took some of the TEA party side, and a whole lotta new faces came to the polls to vote to "Build that Wall!" or "Flog the system!" The Base never did settle on a candidate -- never got below two others -- and Trump went first past the post.

The GOP is neither grand nor much of a party....it is simply looking very old.