The Future President, Donald Trump

stalwarts go to war to destroy their own party's likely nominee.

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stalwarts go to war to destroy their own party's likely nominee.

And Biden against Clinton is not the same? Looks like the situation is very similar.

That's a perspective on this I hadn't thought about. Again - sooooo interesting!

The Koch brothers already said they don't care if Trump is the candidate. They're willing to sacrifice this election cycle to develop a better candidate for their purposes.

The Republican party establishment will have to ante up their funds elsewhere if taking down Trump is on their agenda.

They certainly won't get anywhere running a Republican against the Republican incumbent in 2020.

and the media.

The Koch gang has the money and the media. They'll do what they want - and that includes taking down a Republican incumbent to put in one that suits them better.

My only concern over a Trump presidency is that I don't have reliable information about what his views really are. I'd like to have some sense about what someone is like before I consider supporting them

I don't need to know what sort of person he is. I need to know what his positions are on specific policies.

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"There was a fair amount of denial early on that Donald Trump could win the primary. When you have a 30-point number in South Carolina [Trump is getting more than 30 percent of the state's vote in current polls], that tells me he can win the primary. You will have to stop Donald Trump," said Dawson, who was an adviser on Rick Perry's campaign until the former Texas governor dropped out last month.

"It's about telling the story of what it will look like if he's our nominee, 'this is how many [GOP] congressmen will lose if Trump is the nominee," said Dawson.

Dawson's comments reflect a shift in thinking among key party operatives and officials, many of whom strongly oppose Trump and think his nomination would guarantee the victory of Democrats in next fall's general election. Many party operatives dismissed his rise during the summer, arguing it was simply because of the nearly constant coverage Trump receives from the news media and that voters would tire of his approach.

Now, veteran Republican operatives argue that while Trump seems to have peaked at about 30 percent of the vote in most polls, such a rise is substantial, particularly with 14 other candidates splitting the rest of the GOP electorate.

"There is a big part of the party that is against him, but they have not necessarily mobilized against him," said Katie Packer Gage, who was deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney in 2012. "But I think that's coming."

"At some point, somebody is going to have to run ads against this guy," said Gage.

Donald Trump

Pretty much everyone who knows him says that he is very smart,