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<p style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(62,62,62);font-family:'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Carson has already answered the above statement...It is about your ability to surround yourself with qualified people to assist in making decisions.

 

Here's what scares me about that answer, and a potential deal-breaker for me on Carson: it sets him up to be a puppet. He's all but admitted to lacking the experience and knowledge to make those huge decisions, and his immediately reliance on advisors as an answer to the question makes me think he's lacking in confidence as well. I do not want another George W. Bush, who will respond to an advisor saying "jump" by asking "how high?".

 

Quote:  W/o saying,  we are 180 degrees apart on our respective opinions of Ted Cruz and the Iran situation.   But what jumps out about this from the debate standpoint is our reactions.  Not only was I thrilled with Ted Cruz's answers on this subject.  It also impacts my opinions of the candidates that differed with Cruz in the manner that you expressed.

 

  I realize that John Kasich is one of your top choices.  Which is fine.  Yet, for me,  the responses by Kasich were such a turnoff that barring something that changes dramatically,  the most I plan on doing if Kasich gets the nomination is reluctantly voting for me.  It would be very difficult for me to give him a campaign contribution or campaign for him in any manner.  If I did campaign,  it would be practically exclusively against the Democrat Nominee.  

 

I like the way the other candidates reacted because their answers recognize that Cruz's plan is buffoonery. For one, the President cannot unilaterally "tear up" a treaty. That requires Congressional approval, and that certainly takes longer than one day to accomplish. Two, they displayed an understanding of how diplomacy works in the real world that Cruz has yet to demonstrate.

 

Believe it or not, there is one, one possible situation in which I would have to consider voting for Cruz in the general election, but much as in your case with Kasich (who's probably my second choice amongst the Republican candidates right now), it would be a tough call between reluctantly checking the box next to Cruz or casting a write-in ballot for Deez Nuts.

 

Quote:  We rarely agree on politics and related subjects.  But if I had to choose between these two candidates,  I would also reluctantly choose Donald Trump.   Hopefully,  it doesn't come down to these two choices.  

I don't think Trump or Fiorina will take it. I don't think that Trump is going to be a big draw for supporters as guys like Paul, Walker, Christie and Kasich drop out. I also think that once the public realizes that a vote for Fiorina is a vote for a train wreck of a businesswoman who wants to nuke the world, her support will tank. Those supporters of failed candidates that I mentioned above will, imo, flock to Carson or Bush, and one of those two will likely overtake Trump by the time of the convention.

 

If it did come down to those two, I'd have little choice but to go with Trump. Fiorina is just a walking disaster waiting to happen. How a CEO who was fired after crashing the USS Hewlett Packard into the rocks, then backing up and crashing into them again over and over can represent herself as a successful businesswoman qualified to run the country is beyond me.

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