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[dschapin] I genuinely believe Trump to be a dangerous demagogue with a narcissistic personality disorder and I am scared to death of what he would do as President.

There is an outside chance some of that would happen with President Trump. There is an absolute certainty just about all of that will happen, and more, with a President Hillary.

Sitting on a fork between Beastwoman and Trump, sure, go for Trump.

But if you are sincerely concerned about Trump's personality and fitness for office, you still have somewhere to go, which is Ted Cruz, as a reasonable alternative to succumbing to the Trump/Beastwoman fork.

The major risk with Cruz is that a) he might lose to Hillary (even with Trump according to polls, on that score), and b) even if he gets elected, there is so much GOP-E resentment toward him in DC that he wouldn't be able to charm birds to poop on him, much less get the GOP cauci to cooperate with him. (Again, conceivably equally true of insurgent Trump.)

You're not stuck with a Trump/Beastie dichotomy. If anyone other than Trump can win the nomination, it would be Cruz. And Cruz has so far outpolled or polled even with Trump in a head-up election opposite Hillary.

Cruz simply cannot win the nomination outright. There is no realistic way he gets 87 percent of the remaining delegates, which means it would be a brokered convention if Trump does not get enough delegates, and the only nominee coming out of a brokered convention would be Ryan or possibly Kasich.

I'm sorry, but Cruz staying in is the only gambit the GOPe has left, which is why they are backing him, but they will stab him in the back as soon as he walks into the arena in Cleveland.