[Hoot Gibson]

I think you are exactly right. The same brain dead Clinton die hards and Obama twicers are going to be predictably selfish and shallow this election cycle. They will vote Democrat, because that's who gives them welfare. If Republicans promised to give them even more, they would switch in a heartbeat. You have all the lies and bloviations, and then you have the simple truth, they are bought and paid for. The war on women is made of straw and anybody who would actually believe it is too stupid to vote with their head in any circumstance.

They hit Romney with the same imbecilic drivel and it stuck anyway. These guys would make the same argument no matter who was on the other ticket so why knock one's self out worrying about it? Trump isn't the most articulate man I ever heard to be sure, but he has more than held his own against the Clintons so far.

Ted Cruz cannot mathematically make muster, he needs 80% of the remaining delegates, Trump can and likely will. Hillary on the other hand is in my mind, a vacuous shrew of a former first lady who had a senatorship and a secretary of state job handed to her. She couldn't lead the gang who couldn't shoot straight and if we hand her the keys to the White House, I think we can all agree our kid's future, as well as our own immediate future are in great jeopardy.

Ted and Trump should if for nothing else, come to terms for the sake of their own hides and unite under one banner in order to serve, and frankly save this nation. Anybody who cannot agree with that is not seeing the same mess I am.

There are millions of conservatives who will not vote for Trump under any circumstance and I am one of them. Trump is a disaster waiting to happen and Ted Cruz throwing away his future to serve as VP to a madman would not help a Trump administration succeed

As for Cruz, he needs to win about 54 percent of the vote to capture enough delegates to win because of the number of winner take all states remaining. Without Kasich in the race, that would be far from impossible. Polls have consistently shown that Cruz would beat Trump comfortably in a head-to-head match. Kasich is in the race to make sure that neither Cruz nor Trump get enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. The most likely outcome, IMO, is a Trump/Kasich ticket.

The polls that Trump supporters have been ignoring for months are the ones that show Trump losing to Hillary by a comfortable margin. Without the free, positive media coverage that Trump has received during the primaries, it will be extremely difficult for him to beat Hillary. If she gets indicted, it will be even harder for Trump to beat Biden, Elizabeth Warren, or whoever else Democrats decide to bring off the bench.

The #NeverTrump movement sees a race between Trump and Hillary as a choice between two dishonest Democrats. Trump continues to call Cruz "Lyin' Ted" at every campaign rally, which is stupid behavior for a candidate at this stage of the campaign (actually it has always been stupid). If Cruz ends up on his ticket, then he is much less principled than I have been led to believe.

If I were Cruz, I would honor my pledge to support the party's nominee by voting for Trump. Scheduling conflicts would prevent me from making any campaign appearances with Trump and I would make sure of it.

Trump may be an even more polarizing politician than Obama or Hillary. The difference is that Obama has very strong support among Democrats. After the convention, I expect that Hillary will also have strong support among her own party. Trump's nomination will severely depress Republican enthusiasm and turnout. He is a media creation and the media will help destroy him if he wins the nomination.