[TheRealThing]

I disagree. The debates have been boring only because Trump is so ignorant of issues that, until the last debate, he has relied on ad hominem attacks and hyperbole to hide that ignorance. Watching Trump in a debate is worse than watching the pre-shot clock North Carolina Tar Heels under Dean Smith execute its four-corner offense.

I despise the GOP establishment but the answer to RINOism is not electing a fascist to the White House. The only reason that Trump is leading this race is name recognition and the media's quest for ratings. Trump is the best argument against limits on campaign fund raising that there has ever been.

Entrenched incumbents in Congress have almost universal name recognition in their districts or states, which is the same advantage with which Trump began his campaign. As I have pointed out many times, Trump is not and has never been "self financed." He takes donations and has loaned his campaign millions of dollars. Those loans will be repaid by donors and he will finance his campaign in the general election campaign the same way that every other candidate will. In short, Trump is a lying hypocrite.

Trump is a Washington insider. He has financed mostly members of the liberal establishment for decades. There is no reason to expect that Trump will keep any of his campaign promises because he has always acted in his own selfish interests. People who have bought political influence in the past are no less corrupt than the people who have sold that influence. Not all people donate to politicians for personal gain, but Trump has boasted that his past donations were made as bribes for political favors.

I know that people in this country are angry at our corrupt federal government, but supporting one of the most corrupt Washington insiders to express that anger makes no sense. Trump has been a fraud in the business world and he has been a fraud in this campaign.

The Republican Party is in dire need of reform - a thorough house cleaning. Trump's goal is not to reform the party, but to destroy it. Rubio and Kasich are the status quo, establishment Republican candidates. Ted Cruz, in contrast, has fought to reform the party since he was first elected to office.

I am a proud member of the #NeverTrump movement and I remain unconvinced that Trump would make a better president than felon Hillary Clinton would. Slapping an "®" beside of his name does not make Hillary's dear friend, Donald Trump, any more presidential than she is.

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I don't agree with a thing you have said here and innuendo does not pass muster for credible sourcing. Honestly, is it Cruz's libertarian streak that you're so ga-ga over?

I can readily accept a Cruz Presidency and be thankful for it. But in Trump's case, I don't see where accusations which appear to me to stretch credibility to it's most remote limits, serves any good. If Cruz is the best candidate that's fine but, as in the case of cops fabricating evidence or lying to get a conviction, the end is not justified by such means.