Over the past couple of years, I believe that Donald Trump has generally done more to hurt the Republican party's chances of retaking the presidency than he's done to help them. From his mainstreaming of the Birther movement to his incessant toying with the notion that he might run for the office himself, he's displayed a level of clownish and self-promotional behavior that the GOP could have certainly done without. Furthermore, public perception was in no way helped by the stream of Republican primary candidates who, for whatever reason, felt the need to meet with