If you had to settle, would you pick Trump or Rubio?

[Brad S]

It's likely Cruz would carry the ranchers net vote, but ranchers net voters are not a typical cross section of voters. If it came down to a choice between Trump and Rubio, which way would you go and why?

 

[Faster horses]

I would rather pick Rubio but he has lied to the American people about his involvement with the Gang of Eight (amnesty bill) and that's a big deal to me. Plus he is pretty entrenched in the establishment and we don't need that.

I don't like Trump and his record of funding liberals in the past really bothers me.

I guess this is where "picking the less of two evils comes in."

I guess......I would go for Trump.... under protest....

So frustrating that the GOP has someone as qualified as Cruz and they won't get behind him.

Maybe Cruz could be a Supreme Court Judge....we definitely need him in there somewhere. I really enjoyed his performance
last night and how direct he was with Trump. You can see why he has won many important cases. Rubio was good too, bringing
up things to Trump. One thing I really liked, they didn't back down. Had Romney not backed down to Obama in those debates,
we might not have wound up with a bummer president. Wishful thinking.

 

[Mike]

I really think Trump will change the way things are done in D.C. Rubio will be the same-o, same-o, and he'll get gobbled up by the "establishment".

Somebody needs to fire everyone in D.C. Down to the janitors, Secret Service, and the lobbyists...................................

Right or wrong, we are in the midst of a Revolution. Isn't that what we've been asking for?

 

[Traveler]

The way Rubio has gotten the support of the establishment tells us all we need to know. Going with Trump with some reservations. Anybody who pouts and stays home, get ready for an Australian type Clinton gun grab, or at least some crappy underhanded way to stop ammunition and reloader sales.

 

[Mike]

Whomever the Republican nominee is, we've all got to get behind him. Unless we want a full blown Socialist gubmint & the Constitution torn to shreds.

 

[Brad S]

For me, when Jeb quit and Rubio inherited Jebs backing, like someone already said, that's a disqualifier. I don't mean that we need a purity test, but establishment republicans won't fix this mess.

 

[Larrry]

Trump has a big load of baggage siding with liberals on many things. Gun control is a big one where sided with libs in the past. I do like that he is anti establishment, but believe he is a loose cannon. He could very easily jump in the libs bandwagon at times. I'll go with Rubio, but I'll go with any of them over hill or Bernie.
The right tend to abandon someone on the right if the disagree on an issue. The left will many times support their leftwingernut if they agree on one issue

 

[Brad S]

David Stockman:

America will need the Almighty's favor if Donald Trump becomes our 45th President. Still, blessed be The Donald for running a demolition derby in the Republican primaries. There is no hope for the future of capitalist prosperity and a free society unless the Republican Party is destroyed, and by golly Trump may well accomplish the deed.

We need to be clear. There is no longer a Republican Party rooted in the main street highways and byways of America. What's left of it is not even the xenophobic, nativist, crypto-racist flotsam and jetsam of the populist right that The Donald is successfully calling to arms.

The fact is, the GOP has mutated into the War Party. Nestled comfortably in the Imperial City, it operates special interest rackets to underwrite its incumbency. It idles its time conjuring and embellishing scary stories about terrorist threats alleged to be stalking the planet and creeping onto these exceptional shores.

Once upon a time, by contrast, the GOP actually stood for free markets, fiscal rectitude, hard money and minimalist government. Calvin Coolidge did a pretty good job of it. And even the unfairly besmirched Warren G. Harding got us out of the foreign intervention business