Rant Start:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/south-carolina-republican-party-donald-trump-run-2016-121725.html?hp=rc2_4_b1

Loyalty Oaths? What the hell is wrong with these guys? This is not the People's Republic of the United States, we don't need to pledge unconditional loyalty ot a political party in order to make our way in life.

I don't like Trump, I made that extremely clear, but this is stupid and is only causing the rifts within the GOP to grow bigger. He's got no real chance of winning this election, nor even the candidacy, but the GOP is risking everything, including unfettered political expression in order to keep him out of the candidacy.

A Civil War is only a step away within the Conservative Coalition, because the GOP's leadership is too old, too rigid, and too orthodoxed to keep it together. I've worked on Republican campaigns, went to state meets, and had some fun debates (MA and NH Republicans are really different from Southern Republicans, it's less Gay bashing and more clam bakes/Sam Adams Ales ). Still, this is getting ugly and despicably destructive. Whatever "respect" I had left for this party is gone.

Not to mention Jeb Bush's offhand racial slur against legal Asian immigrants (Your dad was the Ambassador of China, for Pete sakes). Everyone knows Jeb was talking about Latino babies, but in a fit of political calculus, he just threw the Asians under the bus to keep his popularity with the Hispanic voters. This is symptomatic of a political party that cares so little about its constituency beyond population growth patterns. Right now half of America does not vote for any party, because of crap like this.

This so fucked up, I can't vote for Jeb Bush, who is the establishment go to guy, and I can't bring myself to vote for Trump. I don't like Hilary Clinton, both from a political and professional level (I had worked with her people on something years ago, it's a really long story involving my Non-Profit work in community health care).

What am I supposed to do?