I had difficulty as well until I started putting two and two together. Conservatives were shut out once again by the same dunderheads who just HAD to support Romney and McCain because the establishment told them those were the candidates who could win. All the while, us telling them we needed a Conservative. They ******* insisted it was going to be McCain and then Romney. Two elections in a row, this same group of voters overwhelmingly threw their support to the establishment pick.... BUT.... Now that things have gone totally tits-up for the establishment, they crawdad over to Trump and again, reject the common sense Conservative. I guarantee you... MOST registered GOP Trump supporters voted for McCain and Romney in their primaries.
Here's the problem with this silly argument.
How was Romney "not" a conservative. 2012 Romney toed the line on every bit of Conservative Crazy you put out there. He was plenty conservative.
The real problem you guys had in 2012 was the Mitt Romney thought he was wearing magic underwear,and he was STILL less crazy than the other guys running.
The establishment tried its best to breathe life into Lying' Ted. Cruz should have challenged Trump's nonsense early on. He didn't. INstead he waited for Trump to implode so he could sweep up the malcontents he was building. Except, of course, he didn't.
MY argument is where those voters went who so strongly supported Mitt Romney in the primary. He was not the Conservative candidate, that was Rick Santorum. I realize you're too retarded to understand what a conservative is and it's easier for you to just assume all things republican are conservative. But most conservatives didn't consider Mittens a conservative. However, most republicans supported Mittens, that's how he won the nomination.
Now, it's true, the establishment did attempt, in the eleventh-hour, to try and feign support for Cruz in a failed effort to stave off Trump. If they had supported Ted Cruz back when he was filibustering the funding of Obamacare, maybe there wouldn't have ever been a Trump candidacy? But again... MY argument is not about what the establishment has done, who they've supported, or who is or isn't a true conservative. MY argument is the demographics of those who are supporting Trump. My contention is, it's the same idiots who supported Romney and McCain when everyone else was telling them they weren't conservatives and couldn't win the general.