Neither Trump nor Cruz should never be allowed near the Presidency

reactions to his WashPo editorial board interview, in which he bizarrely dragged the topic of his "hand" size out for 600 words, saying he had "no choice" but to defend himself, again and again, and again, before they finally suggested moving on, and even then The Donald had trouble leaving the topic.

The author was wondering to what purpose Vladimir Putin might pull The Donald's executive "branch" string, but not at all that he could and would dominate a dreadfully incompetent opponent.

I wonder who would actually be running the White House, probably a string of whos who would come and go again as The Donald didn't like what he was reading on Twitter.

The thought of Cruz scares me more.

and does not help their credibility

the GOP leader well into the race, and they do interview people who may become president before they issue their statements. Seems to me encouraging that the WashPost isn't such an irresponsible insider player that they feel just whitewash all these cons they have to tolerate coming and going in their city. No?

would be to lose resoundingly to the Democratic Party.

I'm serious. Many bad leaders would be ejected for failure to perform if that happened, and there would be no chance of somehow pasting together and limping on as is. They would be forced to regroup around their common ground: They are all anti-Democrats. They do still have a common ideology that is literally defined by opposition to us. Pathetic, but that would bring them back together.

And, who knows, perhaps the moderate traditional conservatism purged by ultraconservatives and libertarians would rise once again. Those people were at least trying to create a conservative ideology -- something far more worthy than "stop the Democrats."

A vast majority of the national polls show her losing, or closely tied with any of the top GOP candidates, and Bernie clearly winning.

Meanwhile, the MSM is spewing that she is more electable. This is a candidate whose negative approval rate is in the cellar.

It boggles the mind.

This is what National Review has been working for its entire existence! What Bill Buckley devoted his life to working for!

Yeah, it's not the picture you had in your head about what you were doing, but it's what you were actually doing.

You were dopey enough to believe your own advertising. You were the one sniffing Gipper Glue for a Conservative Paradise high.

You, personally, are the guy who made a bundle from Wingnut Welfare on a book to wash conservative hands of the Nazis and pretend they were leftists.

You built this.

Be the "party of personal responsibility", admit you're a failure on a historical scale, and GO AWAY. Do something more in line with your talents, like "hermit" or "dog shit collector". Just get the hell out of politics and peoples' lives.

I can't think of a better scenario than either Cruz or Trump getting the nom, and the other running independently. It's a thing of beauty. And now they've brought each other's wives into it. The vitriol may give me my wish.

No more pretext of morals, Christianity, and fiscal responsibility. They're now just a reality show filled with elected officials that sound exactly like that guy on the Internet. They've grown into the roll the past 35 years and now they own it completely.