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No, the rules have nothing to do with the Constitution.

They have to do with the Republican party, are changed like dirty socks and are put in place to subvert the American voter if the elites do not like what’s happening.

Don’t even try to tell me that the majority of the American voters are a mob.

Actually the rules MAY be changed once the convention is in session. There will be a rules committee made up of 112 delegates...two from each state and territory. They will make recommendations to the convention.

The recommendations will be voted on by the delegates. If the combination of Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz delegates decide they can change the rules. Otherwise they will not be changed.

Please don’t tell me the rules are changed like dirty socks...it’s just not true. No one is trying to subvert the voter.

Please don't distort what I said.

The idea of the Constitution is to embody a set of rules just as the Republican party has promulgated a set of rules. We respect the Constitution but we must acknowledge that the effect of many of the rules is to avoid majoritarian rule. That is the whole purpose of the Bill of Rights. It does not matter if the majority of the people are deluded and think that Donald Trump would make a good president and would like to shut up people like me. It does not matter because I have a First Amendment right to speak out even against the wishes of the majority of Trump supporters. Democracy in the minds of the framers was often, but not in every respect, equated with mob rule.

If you believe in playing by the rules, as people who respect the Constitution do, if you understand that Trump accepted these rules governing primaries going into the contest, the whole episode does not reflect badly on Ted Cruz who played by the rules but very badly on Donald Trump who ignored them.

No, the rules have nothing to do with the Constitution.

They have to do with the Republican party, are changed like dirty socks and are put in place to subvert the American voter if the elites do not like what’s happening.

Don’t even try to tell me that the majority of the American voters are a mob.

Spot on, Duchess.

Calling the majority a mob, now, is a new low from the cRuz sycophants.

Thank you for calling out this *utter* arrogance.