Everyone is thinking the same thing.

Trump and Cruz can — and will either singly or in tandem take the decision out of the hands of the GOPe.

Policy wise they are largely on the same page.

Trump long ago alluded to selecting Ted Cruz as his ‘wing man.’

As long as Kasich is determined to sabotage the GOP — then it’s almost certain to end with Trump with a free hand — he gets the delegates solo…

Or he — the deal maker — pre-deals with Ted.

BOTH know that the fix is in to keep both of them out of the running.

The GOPe REALLY would prefer a HRCGS as Despot.

As Rush Limbaugh said today on the radio, “why have a contested convention if the establishment wants to back Trump or Cruz?” They can back them right now if they want.
The only purpose to have a contested convention is to *contest* the race.
There’s no guarantee at all that the establishment will be able to find a candidate that even most people could get behind, but there’s another option:

If Trump’s and Cruz’ delegates add up to a majority, they hold a two man conference before the convention and strike a deal, thereby cutting the GOP out of the loop.

I have no idea what such an agreement would entail. I also realize it seems far fetched, until you think about what the establishment is trying to get away with in comparison.

Prisoners In 2014
The number of prisoners held by state and federal correctional authorities on December 31, 2014 (1,561,500)

It has become routine for people who obviously never ought to be president, like Herman Cain, to enjoy success in the Republican primary polls for a time and conservative fame – and speaking fees and book sales – thereafter. Sarah Palin has made a similar career without ever technically running for president, raising funds instead for a political action committee that mostly spends money on consultants, giving very little to actual Republican campaigns.

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his time, it was Ben Carson who ran a “normal” scam campaign similar to the one people were expecting Trump to run. He raised a lot of money and enjoyed a brief honeymoon in the polls before collapsing under scrutiny, sold books, and made his campaign consultants wealthy, built a brand that can be monetized on the conservative speaking circuit, and compiled a fundraising list that can be rented out to other campaigns for years.

Why Global Climate Change and Global Warming no Activists give their votes to Al Gore

California has an Hispanic population of 15,000,000.
The 113 campuses of California’s Community Colleges have 2,100,000 students of which 42% or approximately 800,000 are Hispanic.
The California State University system has close to 500,000 students at all its campuses, with a corresponding 38% Hispanic enrollment or slightly less than 200,000.
The University of California has about 250,000 students with about 20% Hispanic or 50,000.
Total Hispanic enrollment at state colleges and universities in California is well over 1,000,000.
There are also a number of private universities like Stanford, University of Santa Clara, University of San Francisco, Pepperdine, USC, Claremont, Chapman, Loma Linda, etc. with unkown percentage Hispanic enrollment.

Many, probably most of the state universities have ethnic studies programs. One can assume that La Raza and other radical groups have a presence. How much of the teaching staff is radicalized is anyone guess, but it is probably significant.

There are 112,000 people in California State prisons, of which 42% are Hispanic. These are violent, hardened criminals. There is a revolving door that transfers many of these people into county jails because of federal and court ordered suits, and then out onto the streets and back into gangs. It is estimated that there are 120,000 gang members in Los Angeles alone. How many are armed is anyone’s guess.

With Rubio voters going to Cruz, Cruz wins by various margins in FL, Il, NC, and MO. So yes, Rubio has a lifetime albatross hanging from his neck. Soon he will, along with Boehner, be a highly paid lobbyest circling DC like a vulture circling a carcass.

I agree a brokered convention that does not end with a Trump nomination is the catastrophe the chattering class chatters; but Cruz will have to arrive with only one or perhaps two hundred fewer delegates than Trump. And, don’t forget, the GOPe believes Trump is open to negotiation (which is true) while Cruz as POTUS threatens their rice bowls.

Plus, I think, but have no hard evidence, that somewhere around 10% who have, and will continue, to vote for Trump in the upcoming primaries are dem ‘ditch and switch’ voters. We are witnessing a hijacking.

If Trump loses at the convention I don’t get why this is such a fracture. Ford eked out a win over RWR at the convention and that didn’t hurt him. Pardoning Nixon cost him the race.

Why all these assertions the Trump people walk away if he doesn’t get the nomination? Sore losers to me.

Trump, if he is as savy as his fan club insists, knows he can not win in the general election. Charade is the word of the day. Or else, Trump’s narcissism towers (pun intended) above and casts a shadow over our current messiah’s narcissism. It looks to me The Shrew Queen will win in a landslide that makes 1984 look like a tightly contested election.

Yes, Cornhead, now we will know. But the odds favor the donald.