Why some conservatives enthusiastically favor Trump over establishment Republicans:
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2015/0.../?subscriber=1
Trump is not my choice. I prefer either Cruz, Jindal, Carson, or Fiorina--and a combination of any two of them for Pres. and VP. But the Democrat-lite establishment leadership prefers to support their own Dem-lite guys, like Jeb Bush etc., and it invites the conservative base to bolt the party and give the election and future of the country to progressive socialist rule.
Those who think that, at this time, a plurality, or even a small majority of Americans won't vote for a socialist, might be right . . . but they may not be right.
If establishment conservatives actually offered a distinct choice to progressivism, Trump would not be a factor.