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Donald Trump is a successful businessman, but the reason that he is running a successful campaign so far is that he is a great showman and a reality show celebrity. It is an unfortunate fact that most Americans cannot even name the U.S. Senators from their own states. If you think that Cruz’s name recognition is even in the same ballpark as Trump’s you are badly mistaken.

I heard the same arguments that you are making every time that Ronald Reagan ran for president. BTW, Reagan was a great negotiator and his skill had nothing to do with government experience. The key to negotiating is the willingness to walk away from a bad deal because it gives you credibility going forward. Reagan understood that and Cruz does too. Our current elected leaders in Washington are also skilled negotiators, as they are all helping themselves to a piece of the growing government pie at the expense of all Americans.

Few people would have been shocked if Trump had decided to run as a Democrat, had Hillary not run. He could have pointed at his record and explained his past behavior as just doing whatever benefited his businesses - which is the same explanation that he has given for his many donations to Democratic candidates and causes to his new Republican supporters.

I will probably vote for Trump if he wins the nomination but I am growing tired of seeing Cruz trashed in what was once a very conservative forum.

Honestly, I was much less vocal about my concerns about Cruz until when just expressing them got such disgusting, insulting, directed responses from some of his supporters.

As far as "who's a conservative" is concerned, it all depends on who's defining it. At this horrific juncture in US history, my definition of conservative is who will save the US. That involves closing borders if necessary, US jobs to US workers, tariffs to stop unfair trade, not more trade deals. Send home invaders. The other stuff? If we don't save the US we'll be living under a weird combination of "Black Lives Matter" chaos and Sharia Law.

So, yeah, I'm with Trump. But you know what? I have NEVER directly insulted a Cruz supporter. You don't do that.....maybe you can speak to your buddies.

Just one correction: until about four years ago, Trump gave about equally to each side. He has only given to Republicans recently. My sense is that the drift of the Democratic Party into the radical left-wing agenda became too much for him. Curiously, his probable opponent in the general will be a candidate that, in 2008, represented the centrist position within the Democratic Party; although, in 1992, she was to the left of center within that party.

“I will probably vote for Trump if he wins the nomination but I am growing tired of seeing Cruz trashed in what was once a very conservative forum.”

Few Freepers are trashing Cruz; it is some of the zealous Cruz supporters who make a habit of trashing Trump and his supporters on pro-Trump threads that arouse the ire. Those Cruz people, know who they are, and should cut it out.