"A Trump candidacy will destroy the GOP?" Really ? Isn't that what McCain did to the GOP back in 2008? Or GW Bush in 2006 ??

While the GOP pretends to be linear in its requirements for "member status" within the Establishment GOP,  I remind you all of Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Michael Bloomberg, and,  Michael Steel (past RNC Chairman)   . . . .   all more liberal members of the GOP than Trump is "racist."   

The Grand Old Party gets what it deserves,  for years of marginalizing those conservatives that gave the party its recent political powers.  Michele Bachmann,  a key figure in the success of the 2010 midterm elections,  was shamefully ignored as Boehner and his leadership team decided to openly work against the teaparty/conservative movement.   If leadership did not have the commonsense to at least appease the teaparty,  it deserves nothing in terms of consideration from conservative voters.  Time to pay the fiddler   . . . .    in fact,  this may be the last chance for such commonsense measures.  If not Trump then Cruz,  Rubio, Fiorina or Christie.  Forget about Rand Paul,  Jeb Bush and Kasich.  

Understand that Trump is not my choice,  but if he wins the nomination,  I will vote for him.  Party politics will forever be affected,  I know.  But that process began with the 2006 failure of the GOP to keep the Senate and the House.  

Many of us liked G.W. as a Command and Chief,  but most of us understood he was more a progressive than we cared for,  supporting the legalization of the abortion pill (RU 486),  his deficit spending habits and his support of "Affordable Housing"  which gave us the 2008 fiscal collapse.   

McCain was simply a jerk when it came to his opinion of conservatives,  and Romney was a Mormon   . . . .    no problem for me,  but millions of evangelicals stayed away,  thinking,  somehow,  it better to have a second term of Obama than see a Mormon in office.  Dumb.  

We can take down much of progressives gains with victory in this election cycle.  Otherwise,  the nation will have become even more progressive than it is now.  Problem?  Progressives do not believe in balancing the budget.  They think money is free,  the military unnecessary,  and private constitutional rights  (i.e. property rights,  gun rights, free speech rights,  religious freedom rights and the right to due process) are ill advised contructs of the U.S. Constitution.  

Either we give them more power,  or begin to tear down what they have managed to put in place.  That is what this election is all about.