1) To change 'Ryan is clearly the favorite of the NYT' to 'Ryan is clearly the favorite of the GOPe'
2) '...and is portrayed as an alternative to Trump' to '...and is portrayed as an alternative to Trump and Cruz.'
Small changes, sure, but seminal. And unless Trump and Cruz settle their differences now, they will both lose the convention. Unless they join together, it will not matter how many delegates Trump has (as long as he's short of the target), nor what stratagem Cruz works at to try and get an advantage in subsequent convention votes (as sharp as Cruz might think he is, the GOPe is sharper and craftier and nastier and has been doing this for decades). Trump and Cruz will either win together or die separately, and it is up to them to decide what they prefer.
As for the GOPe ...losing the General is an acceptable loss, and is a few ways preferable to have either Trump or Cruz win. I could explain that sentence, but in the interests of time chose not to. However, when one understands it then it becomes very clear that the purposes and aims of the GOPe are not the same as yours.
Small changes, sure, but seminal. And unless Trump and Cruz settle their differences now, they will both lose the convention. Unless they join together, it will not matter how many delegates Trump has (as long as he’s short of the target), nor what stratagem Cruz works at to try and get an advantage in subsequent convention votes (as sharp as Cruz might think he is, the GOPe is sharper and craftier and nastier and has been doing this for decades). Trump and Cruz will either win together or die separately, and it is up to them to decide what they prefer.
You are 100% correct. The only way the GOPe is defeated this time
around is if Trump and Cruz join forces. Unfortunately, IMO, that ship
has sailed. These 2 men despise each other. They hate each other.
I see a brokered convention that goes 3 or ballots, effectively freezing
out both trump and cruz and installing either Ryan, Kasich, or Romeny.
One of the 3 will get T-rolled in the general by the ol hildabeast and
the glorious GOPe will live to screw us for another 8 years.
I wish Trump and Cruz had worked together. It appears that it was when Glenn Beck became close to Cruz trouble started. Cruz started attacking Trump. Then Cruz dishonestly sabotaged Ben Carson in Iowa. Then Cruz and Beck started lying about Trump and his supporters.
When Cruz brought Neil Bush and the Bush people into his campaign it got worse. The attack on Trump's wife appears to have made it worse.
Cruz's only chance now is to have the GOP establishment raise money for him and rig the process for him so he gets delegates he can not win through the voters. Cruz is now beholden to the people who hate Trump and want to see him destroyed.