[Hoot Gibson]

Cruz's negatives are on the rise. He's been accused by Carson, Rubio and Trump of dreaming up falsehoods to put into the form of robo calls and other forms of dirty trick campaigning tactics. It stretches credibility just a bit to keep doing it and keep saying oops.

It amazes me how Trump supporters forgive his daily lies and insults are so quick to take Trump's allegations about Cruz as absolute truth. Trump can make fun of people's disabilities, looks, and religion, but it's okay with his supporters. The same kind of behavior in Trump as we have seen for more than seven years of Obama gets a pass.

I don't want another megalomaniac in the White House. And yes, I know that Cruz's organization and super PACs have been caught doing some of the same dirty tricks that happen in all presidential campaigns.

I am realistic enough to accept that large campaign staffs are going to make mistakes and the candidates are ultimately responsible for their actions. Cruz is the only major candidate who has apologized or fired a staff member for exercising poor judgment.

I will not be joining the Trump cult. A liberal Democrat is a liberal Democrat, whether they choose to run as a Republican or not.

Trump is a bullying blowhard and giving him the power of the presidency would be a dangerous act of desperation and an exercise of wishful thinking.

Why would any conservative support a close friend and big donor to the Clintons and many other liberal Democrats? I will never understand the logic of supporting a Republican candidate with so much in common with Obama. I guess everybody's BS detector is calibrated a little differently. When Trump speaks, the needle of my detector is pegged.