No, he would wilt against the media attacks and fail to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.
Donald Trump has failed to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.
Being a "straight talker" and "not wilting against media attacks" has nothing to do with Republican values. That's what Chris Christie does also. Both he and Trump are big-government, authoritarian, establishment RINOs.
And if your argument is that the wimpy GOP establishment candidates of elections past are responsible for losing elections for being too weak and not sufficiently mobilizing the true "conservative base" of the party, then what the heck is that supposed to say about Trump? His nomination has fractured the Republican coalition to a significantly greater degree than any other GOP establishment candidate has in the recent past.
Real conservatives want nothing to do with his BS and are flocking away from the party in DROVES. You cannot tell me that Romney or McCain had anywhere
near this sort of effect. Romney and McCain did not get George Will to leave the Republican party. Romney and McCain did not get Charles Koch to compare the nominee to cancer or a heart attack.