Trump’s appeal grows for some, sours for others

One view from a conservative:

I feel I have been betrayed by the Republican Party. It has no guts and makes empty promises. That is why Donald Trump still appeals to me ( “I’ll do more for vets than McCain,” Opposing view, Presidential campaign debate, Monday).

Sure, he is not the most articulate spokesman, but Trump attacked Sen. John McCain not because of his war history but because McCain is the personification of Republican in name only ( RINO), especially with regard to his beliefs on illegal immigration in a state overrun through a ridiculously porous border.

Lou Barth

Box Elder, S. D.

Despite not liking everything

about Donald Trump, I felt he brought a badly needed, fresh perspective to this early phase of the presidential race. He forced the other candidates to at least acknowledge the issues he brought up, while they fervently wished he would sit down and stop rocking the boat. But the gratuitous insult he leveled at Sen. John McCain and his justification for doing so have caused me to completely rethink my tolerance for his outlandish remarks and my support for his candidacy.

Unless Trump survives an experience equivalent to having his airplane shot down behind enemy lines, being captured and tortured by that enemy, suffering serious injury as a result of that torture and being prevented from communicating with his family for years, and afterward serving his country as a respected public servant, then Trump can rest assured that any vote he might receive will not have come from me.

J. F. Branan

La Mesa, Calif.