You don't build a multi-billion dollar empire without being able to get along and compromise with  a wide group of people.  I really can't put it any simpler than that.   You think Trump will be terrible because you're buying his shtick hook, line and sinker.  You think he's just some blowhard reality TV show star.  He's a smart ivy league educated man who is essentially running an incredibly low budget campaign and completely destroying his competitors in the process.  

He's always in the news because he wants to always be in the news.  It's called playing to win the game.  He's out polticianing the politicians.  

Obama had zero credentials for his presidency.  Zero.   Just like Bush,  Bush had zero credentials other than "My Dad was pres!".   Trump will be way better than both of them.  

I'm not saying he isn't ridiculously wealthy (He is).  I'm saying that he actually understands how the private sector works.  He employs 10,000 people.  He knows what factors into his hiring decisions.  He's got a pulse on where the country is at far better than any politician who is collecting pay checks from the government.  

I actually think Trump is actually fairly liberal. He's stated his positions before and they are in fact quite liberal. He's not very religious either (so lol at him playing religious coservatives like a deck of cards).

He's a show man though, and he understands TV, so he knows how to whip guillable people into a frenzy. 

Honestly there are no credentials for being president. Other than maybe vice president. To be fair to Hilary she probably is more qualified than anyone having been the wife of a sitting president for 8 years, she knows how the system works. There is no job remotely like being president of the United States. They all learn on the fly. 

Business world is easy to bring people together because there's a combining, overriding mutual force in business called -- gettin' paid. There's self interest involved. It doesn't work like that in politics, in politics everyone is trying to score points at your expense. 

He's been pretty consistent with the notion that they need to eradicate ISIS for the good of the world (but that's all the intervention he wants to take).  He was posed the question if Russia wanted to go in and take care of them would he be opposed and he shocked people by saying essentially that he would be fine with Russia doing it and that he would get along with Putin.

US knows damn well that Saudis basically fund ISIS and the powers that be are OK with that. They serve a purpose of being a bogey-man, so there's no rush to eradicate them even from the Russians. 

ISIS is a tiny fighting force, Ethopia has a freaking larger standing army, any one of these world powers could wipe them off the planet overnight if they really wanted to. 

In fact out of all the realistically viable candidates I would go for Trump since he somewhat appeases my economic stance ...

I am personally content with the personal rights I have now and most likely will if Trump were elected ...

I don't believe he's liberal,  centrist - independent would be far closer (He's been a registered Republican since 88').   I believe that's why he would be a great choice.  He's not a divider (Obama has been a divider,  Cruz would be a divider too for example).

There isn't credentials for being president, but if there was any job on the planet that compares the most?  It probably would be the role in which Trump sits.  A multi-national, multi-billion, global conglomerate of businesses.   

Business world is easy to bring people together because there's a combining, overriding mutual force in business called -- gettin' paid. There's self interest involved. It doesn't work like that in politics. 

If you go a step more abstract,  that's exactly what politics are.  Gettin' paid is exactly the same as (Gettin' something that I want (Military support,  Cheap Oil, strategic help,  10 Battleships, Nuclear energy, etc, etc).   The manner in which you need to achieve that balance or agreement may differ, but the core concept remains the same and people are people.   You sell people, not ideas.  

Every politician is a divider and a unifier, you think everyone likes Clinton or Bush or even Reagan? Obama will be well thought of after his presidency because he's likable and nothing really major happened under his presidency. Most presidents are more fondly thought of post-presidency. 

And no being president is nothing like running a corporation. It would be much, much easier if it was like running a corporation. 

You don't sell anything to politics, politicans are on "their side" and that means they do everything they can to stop/derail the other side. That's the name of the game. 

Republicans have opposed positions from Obama that they supported like 10 years prior just because ... they can't be seen approving anything Obama. There's no arguing or rationalizing with people in politics in a lot of ways because they have their position (left or right) and they are never going to compromise on it. 

There's no "oh gee, you said that so eloquently, now I'm going to support your position".

The country changes from changing demographics and changing attitudes from the general public (ie: marijunana and gay marriage ... most Americans are more liberal on these issues today than 10-15 years ago, probably because a lot of the people against it probably also were old farts that died). But that isn't really a change due to any politican.  

Bernie can stop Trump.

Hilary will probably win in a general election too. If she can win Florida due to its high Latino population and hold steady in most other Democratic strong holds, she basically wins the White House. 

It would be very hard for Trump to make up electoral votes elsewhere.