[TheRealThing]

All Cruz has to do is deny Trump a majority of delegates on the first ballot. If Trump is still polling very poorly in a general election against Hillary Clinton, there is no way that he will be the nominee. A candidate with a 70%+ negative rating among women is just not going to get it done in the general election.

BTW, have you noticed how often Trump repeats the lie that polls show that he would easily beat Hillary? If you doubt that he is lying, just check the RCP list of polls. Clinton has led Trump in the last 11 polls and she has led him in 26 of the past 28 polls. In the two polls in which he led out of 28, his lead was within the margin of error. The last poll that showed Trump ahead was taken in mid February. Why do you think he lies so much about indisputable facts? The RCP average of recent polls has Clinton up by 11 points over Trump and the trend does not look good for him.

Cruz has led Trump in a hypothetical head to head match up consistently. As pledged delegates are released after the first ballot, more will abandon a candidate with no chance to win the general than will join his flock. Trump is just trying to run out the clock but if he does not lock up the nomination before the convention, he is toast, IMO.

Trump's problems are self inflicted. Hopefully, you will regain your objectivity at some point and realize that the long list of people who Trump has slimed during this campaign have done nothing to deserve his childish insults. Megyn Kelly had Trump pegged before the first debate. Trump seems to prefer attacking women over men. Maybe he has some unresolved mommy issues.

I am still not convinced that Trump is not running to destroy Republicans' chances of beating Hillary Clinton. If that was his goal, he is succeeding beyond Hillary's wildest dreams.

A vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary.

My objectivity will remain fixed, as it has from the outset of this primary season. My intent has always been to allow the inevitable to play out on the national stage and stay emotionally unattached. I freely admit that I agree with Trump on a lot of his stated objectives. Cruz says he will walk the conservative path and yet, he doesn't seem to be above playing a little dirty. As well as talking out of both sides of his mouth I might add. And you manage to keep dodging this, but Run has it right, if and when the Trump candidacy is dispatched, Cruz will get the Democrat's Full Monty, and it will be merciless. The last Obama campaign proved how short people's memories really are, and there will be no holds barred. I don't think Cruz can handle it but, I think Trump would eat Hillary alive. And one more thing. Certainly, if the women of this nation are prepared to take this thing to the nuclear level by throwing gender based insurrection into the elective process over something like abortion, we've all had it anyway. Trump is right in that women who get abortions are culpable. They make the decision to have sex, and they are the ones who make the decision to dodge the consequences (temporarily at least) by getting rid of the baby that their actions have produced. If we as a nation are prepared to give women a complete pass on such behavior, we are truly in free fall. But, let's not leave out the Daddies. IF these guys had to pay for their own offspring, they'd behave a little bit. But no, not here in America the beautiful. Here one can impregnate as many as possible with zero consequences to bear. The rest of us will step right up and pay for that thank you very much, through forced taxation. So let the good times roll.

But I'll tell you what really irks me about all the Trump detractors. Where was all this miraculous vision that serves them so well in Mr Trump's case, when Obama came on the scene? Today they speak with certainty, as if the future is entirely discernible to them. We could have certainly used their talents for looking into the future where Mr Obama's tenure was concerned, but alas, back then they were nowhere to be found. This country has since been decimated. Under the present administration civil anarchy has flourished, and welfare has reached socialist levels while our world stature has practically disappeared. Are we wailing about that? Nope, we're still ignoring that inconvenient truth as hundreds of media types and political talking heads are lining up to come on TV and lay down chapter and verse about the certain doom associated with a Trump Presidency.

Two things about that. Back in 2007 my own objectivity afforded insight into the coming Obama tenure. My mouth fell open when he slammed the US for using too much energy while everybody else seemed to have missed it completely. Secondly, these guys slamming Trump all have something to lose if he is elected. Put succinctly, the pushback against Mr Trump is from the ESTABLISHMENT. The very same looney tooners who have brought stratospherically high taxes and the morally erosive effects of political correctness to the doorsteps of both the industrial scene and every household in America. No, I am more than comfortable leaning on my own understanding there Hoot, no matter how confident and forceful your delivery of the going speculations may wax.

And yes I've noticed, and he shouldn't do that but he probably could win against her and he knows that.