[Bon mots]

[novemberslady]

Bttt

[Don Corleone]

Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.

Welcome to Banana Republic USA!

[boycott]

The GOPe has no integrity. They will steal or whatever it takes to stay in power.

[Nateman]

Colorado made those rules before anybody got into the game and anybody could take advantage of them. Trump royally screwed up with the rules as they are. Not that any of his whiny sore losers are going to listen to the truth.

[dragnet2]

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

ROFL

Those two images are classic! ;-)

[ek_hornbeck]

The fix had been in since August, when party officials, alarmed at Trump’s popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado Republicans were not allowed to vote on the party’s nominee.

In other words, the party only tolerates elections when people vote for their candidates of choice. That's how voting worked in the Soviet Union, come to think of it - they had elections, but everyone knew the outcome.

Since 1988, the RNC and the GOP has had a lock on having its candidates of choice nominated: Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney. If there was a grassroots populist/libertarian challenger, the RNC would send faux populist/libertarian stalking horses to split the vote and derail them. It was a nice gig for a while - fooling voters into thinking that they were picking candidates while the game was rigged.

This time, things didn't go according to plan because the establishment vote was split early on. So the GOP establishment resorts to desperate measures: having delegates from non-voting states go to their candidates of choice, or selecting delegates who will vote the party's way at the convention.

As I said before, the RNC's motto is "you vote, we pick."