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It is one thing to change the rules of the convention to convert majority requirement to a minority requirement and quite another thing to change other rules in the midst of the convention.

As I pointed out a recent reply, if Trump could change the rules to reduce the number required to nominate him below a majority, why can not the establishment change the rules to require 60% to nominate?

The answer is if this course of conduct is embarked on we have no convention we have anarchy. I think we also have to acknowledge that as much as we both despise the establishment which has rigged the convention in many respects, there has to be some observance of the rules which cannot be dismissed simply because we do not like the people who are making the rules.

If we are going to simply ignore rules by people we don't like, we will have no rules. I think we both agree that politics is a rough game (not beanbag) but at the beginning of this process Donald Trump and Ted Cruz each had the option of running as independent candidates where they would not be subject to the rulemaking power of the Republican Party. They chose to play within the system. Donald Trump has threatened to crash the system by running as a third-party candidate. He wants it both ways.

As much as I deplore the people who make the rules, if Trump wins the nomination he will be making the rules, will Ted Cruz and his supporters have to obey them or will they be free to ignore them?

Of the two men, I believe that Ted Cruz is interested in reforming the process and Donald Trump has interest only in hijacking it.

To me, I have not seen where Trump categorically and formally demanded this to the rules committee. If he has, I’d like to see it so I can be informed to real facts.

By morphing campaign talk into the equivalent actual ‘demands’ only in the sense that Trump is the sole offender is disingenuous, particularly in light of many members of the GOPe poweratti actively advocating even taking away a legitimate 1237 lead if that candidate be Donald Trump. And all this, even before the actual nomination convention is actually convened.

Of the two men, I believe that Ted Cruz is interested in reforming the process and Donald Trump has interest only in hijacking it.

Trump seems to be the only one willing to live within the rules the party has established. Whether it is the loyalty pledge or the Rule #40/majority of delegates in 8 states, etc., Trump has not been advocating rule changes. Whereas the insiders have.

Consider how many insiders have said they would vote for Hillary over Trump, yet they were the very ones who made a HUGE issue of the loyalty pledge.