Do you not understand that Bush (and likely Rubio) represents the death of the two-party system because he’s all in for amnesty, a pathway to citizenship and a crushing majority once there are tens of millions of brand-spanking new reliable Democrat voters? With a Congress already filled with like minds, how will we stop that once the President is also hell bent for “comprehensive immigration reform.” Even if Bush is the second coming of Buckley and Reagan’s love child, conservative to the core on everything else, that one issue disqualifies every candidate except Trump and Cruz.

This is the defining issue of this nation’s future. Either we choose one of them and work as hard as necessary to get this country started in the right direction or we surrender to the Marxists and 1984 gets here in a hurry.

It boils down to who can you trust – the egomaniac who changes principles as often and easily as he changes his socks, or someone who’s taken on the Establishment and fought for conservative principles his entire life?

If Trump wins the nomination and picks Cruz to be his VP, Cruz might be able to rein in Trump’s fascistic tendencies, but his supporters are doing everything they can to demonize Cruz, while the GOPe applauds.

Despite the fact that the debate travesty seemed to go on forever, the campaign is just beginning. Bush has the resources to go all the way.

The disdain for Bush is a little puzzling. How quickly people forget; he was a very good Governor, who adhered to conservative principles. I was reminded recently that Florida went through four major hurricanes on his watch. While other states, and other Governors, were stumbling around whenever any disaster struck, Florida was prepared and the Governor reacted effectively.

If I were going to take a chance, it would now be on Cruz since Carly is out. But, I have always preferred a Governor, or former Governor, with a good track record. Still do. There are two left standing –actually three because Gilmore, another effective Governor, has not officially quit for some reason.

So for my question, to quote the famous political commentator, E. Litella – “NEVER MIND.”

“What happens to delegates from early primaries whose candidate has dropped out before the convention?

I would like to add:

What happens to any monies left in both the candidate’s own campaign fund and any PACs set up to specifically promote that candidate? It can’t be returned to donors since money is fungible and at that point there is no way to determine which donor or donors’ money is still unspent.

Only after that did I read of Christie’s strong desire to be Romney’s VP. Which makes Christie a political whore, since clearly it makes no difference to Christie whether he kisses Romney’s ass or Trump’s. Christie snubbing Romney, to maintain his in with Obama, just completes the picture.

My goodness! In that photo, Christie reminds me of a blue meanie.

By the way, I just learned that the Romney campaign’s code name for Christie was Pufferfish. That’s actually very clever, because it not only gets across the idea of a very large guy, but also of a person very enamored of himself, puffed up with his own self-importance.

This is from that same article:

It didn’t hurt the Democrat nominee that, at the same time, “Pufferfish was humping Obama’s leg,” as the Romney aide put it. “Pufferish was very upset that he did not make it as Romney’s V.P. pick.” This adviser thinks that Christie was driven, at least in part, by revenge. A few days later, the Romney campaign asked Christie to attend a rally in Bucks County, Pa., on November 4, the Sunday night before polls opened nationwide the following Tuesday. The gathering was a monster: Some 25,000 screaming Romney fans waited for hours in temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s to see the GOP nominee. Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, then-governor Tom Corbett, current U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, all Republicans, warmed up the crowd and praised Romney. The Marshall Tucker Band played Southern rock tunes – a surprising ingredient in Yankee country, but welcome nonetheless.

“They asked Christie to come to the rally,” the aide recalls. “Christie’s people said he wouldn’t leave the state. So, Romney’s people offered to send a helicopter. Christie could get from Trenton to the rally in 15 minutes.” Actually, it takes about that long by car. A chopper ride shouldn’t have taken more than five or six minutes. “Christie said that he did not want to threaten federal disaster money,” which his new pal, Obama, controlled. “He said he did not want to attack Obama. But he didn’t have to do that. All he had to do was introduce ‘My good friend, Mitt Romney.’ All he did was repeat himself: ‘I won’t leave the state.’”

An excellent argument can be made that the country is already finished. But arguments, however logical and factual are not always predictive of future reality.

Another excellent argument can be made that if Trump is elected, it will be disastrous for the Republic. Though IMO, Paul is not one of them, there are a number of excellent people that could fill cabinet positions. Nor do they have to be from either party’s establishment.

The problem isn’t finding qualified people, the problem is a leftist indoctrinated, ignorant public.

Then the country is already finished. Whom is President Trump going to appoint to his administration, if not members of the Republican establishment? You might wish that he would appoint Rand Paul as head of the Federal Reserve and Edward Snowden as head of the CIA, but it’s not going to happen. The federal government is not run by one man, it is and will be run by members of the applicable party establishment.

(Which is why I like both of them.)