Paint me in more of the corner of "none of the above". There is nothing cast in stone that we have to accept either one. You have very eloquently acknowldeged their shortfalls. Don't you think we can do better?
@catfish1957 I am not the one you addressed this to,but as to the question "Don't you think we can do better?",MY answer is a resounding "NO!"
Our alleged Republic is now so corrupt after decades of "insider to benefit insider" plays that we are damn lucky to even have people like Trump and Cruz to step up to the plate and accept the responsibility of cleaning up the human septic tank that US "government" has become.
And let us face the REALITY of the job,which is that no one man or woman on Earth is capable of cleaning out all that trash and making the wrongs right,even if they get TWO terms in the Oval Office.
Our goobermint is just too freaking corrupt,and they will fight correcting it every step of the way because it has made them and their families millionaires that are above arrest.
MY pick is Trump because his ego and how he goes down in the history books are the most important thing in the world to him. This alone makes him more qualified to occupy the Oval Office that any candidate in my lifetime.
He can't be threatened and he can't be bribed,because there is nothing in this world more important to him than how he goes down in the history books.