[jjsheridan5]

If he goes third party, under no circumstances will I be voting for this fraud.

Given your description of him as "a fraud", do you really expect to people to believe you would vote for him under any circumstances. And just remember, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Perot run in 92 did not prove that a 3rd party candidate couldn't win. In fact, it proved the opposite. Prior to pulling out, he had at least a 1 in 3 chance of winning, and that is a conservative estimate. He was within a stone's throw of being the clear favorite, when he backed out. So the Perot candidacy did not prove the futility of a 3rd party candidacy, anymore than it proved that a 3rd party candidacy hands the election to the democrats.

What the Perot candidacy proved was that a 3rd party candidacy that taps into the simmering anti-DC sentiment will probably win, unless, as in Perot's case, the man leading it turns out to be crazier than the uncle living in the attic. Which is not a possibility, with Trump.

[sasportas]

What I was saying is: I have been for Cruz all along, a proven conservative, Trump a big question mark, but were Trump to win the Repub nomination I would vote for him. Not any more, not if comes out for a third party. If he does proves to me he is a self serving fraud. He doesn’t care if he splits the vote and puts the rats in there.

Whether they shut him out of the debates is no reason to go third party, in my view. The way the polls are trending, he would win the Repub nomination anyway. No need to go third party.