OK, I’ve had my say about Donald Trump and, apparently, a majority of voters in Republican primaries thus far don’t agree since he continues to win.

The candidate I supported, Marco Rubio, is going nowhere. He is poised to lose even his home state of Florida. His enormous funding from the usual suspects alarms even me and probably indicates that he is just another smooth talker despite my probably errant belief that the crooked, self-interested Republican establishment hadn’t gotten to him.

So, what to do? I believe that Gov. Kasich would be a good choice, but he is doing even worse than Rubio. Even if he wins Ohio, he will never collect the 1,237 delegates to gain the nomination. Same with Rubio. As of the second week of March, Rubio is unlikely to win even his home state of Florida. And it is all downhill for him after Florida. If he or Kasich hope to block Trump from amassing the magic number of delegates before the convention and then win the nomination in a smoke filled hotel room in Cleveland, neither one is likely to win the general election having alienated many of the Trump supporters.

I did see Governor Kasich do an hour of town hall and he was great. His ideas make sense, he is respectful of the questioners, and he has a record of state and federal accomplishments. Unfortunately, we live in a world of reality television where a mostly liberal entertainer lacking substance whose focus for his 70 years of life has been himself and his own ego aggrandizement beats a man of substance like the governor with the “less than well educated,” as Trump describes some of his supporters, who fawn over him.

The only one left is Ted Cruz. I have often said that I feel like I need to take a shower after I watch him speak — seems just a tad sleazy! And that was before his campaign’s several somewhat dirty maneuvers in several primaries. However, I’m willing to expand my personal hygiene routine, hold my nose and vote for Cruz if it will keep the fraudster, the newly self-discovered conservative Donald Trump, from the nomination and from losing the general election in November.

At least Ted Cruz seems to be a true conservative, though mostly driven by self-interest. I have no doubt that he was plotting the Oval Office destination as he was running for the Senate five years ago. But he has a better chance, in my opinion, than Donald Trump in getting the conservative base to vote, which will be necessary to defeat Clinton. Anyone who thinks that Obama’s Justice Department will bring charges against Clinton is delusional.

And even worse, Trump even loses to Bernie Sanders, a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, by double digits. If conservatives want to win this fall and Gov. Kasich fails to gain traction, hold your nose and vote for Cruz. If all you want to do is stick it to the Republican establishment, vote for Trump and get ready for a Clinton presidency with a liberal Supreme Court for the next 20 years.

— P. David Myerowitz, Columbia Falls