By Mark Rhoads –
With great respect to my fellow Republicans who sincerely admire Donald Trump, I have a practical question. Many Trump supporters have been very harsh in their criticism of Republicans who have not yet been won over to the Trump campaign and have even called the conservative Trump skeptics by the word "traitor."
The strongest argument that my pro-Trump GOP friends give me is that Trump will appoint a solid conservative to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
But I have one question about that idea.
For the sake of argument, suppose that Donald Trump defies the current polls and is somehow elected president and that after Jan. 20 he really does honor his promise to appoint a conservative? But if the Trump campaign on November 8 drags down just five GOP Senators and we lose the GOP majority, exactly who will be left to confirm a conservative appointment in 2017?
Of course I suppose the Court could continue to be tied 4 to 4 for another two years and one could hope for a new GOP majority after the 2018 off-year elections. But a lot more damage can be done in the next two years by a divided partisan court.
Beyond that problem, I still worry about Trump's superficial understanding of foreign policy, his remarks praising dictators like Vladimir Putin, his desire to disband NATO, and his careless remarks about the use of nuclear weapons combined with an incurably immature personality. Other than all that, he is not a scary candidate at all.
I agree of course that Hillary is a corrupt and untrustworthy left-wing crazoid, but I only wish we had better choices because I think we deserve better.
