Ted Cruz supporters at this point are voting for the GOP Establishment to Choose the nominee.

self / opinion ^ | 4/1/2016 | Jack Black

[Jack Black]

There are only two choices remaining for how the GOP Nomination process goes.

• One, probably the less likely option, is that Trump secures enough delegates in the rest of the contests to put him over the top and he is nominated on the first ballot in Cleveland.

• The second is that the GOP Establishment, led by Mitt Romney, Carl Rove and others succeed in making it an open convention and choosing the nominee there.

There is no possibility of either Cruz or Kasich winning the nomination by delegate votes on the first ballot, so both of them are working to prevent Trump from reaching that threshold, and then hoping they are the choice of the open convention that results.

It's hard to handicap who walks out of Cleveland with the crown if we go in with Trump short of 1237 delegates.

What we do know is that the party is being extra-crafty to put party loyalists into as many of those delegate slots as possible. Some of those faux-Trump delegates may well support Cruz, but it's more likely that many are Romney era or even older GOP establishment types.

Do you know your county GOP chair? Those are the type of people who will be deciding the nominee in an open convention.

I think Cruz's chances of winning the nomination on a second or subsequent ballot are pretty poor. He's not loved by the GOP establishment, in fact some say he's liked less than Trump. Having pulled off a great political coup, with the open convention, you can be sure that the powers that be will not settle for Cruz.

This will be the golden opportunity to seat someone they really like.

My guess is Paul Ryan is that guy.

My serious question to Cruz supporters (and Kasich too if there are any here) is: do you prefer having the GOP Establishment pick the nominee to Trump?

And, secondly, if you will stipulate for the sake of discussion that Cruz is unlikely to be the guy, who do you want the GOP Establishment to choose?

[Belteshazzar]

Fine. I happen to believe that you are not correct in your assessment. So, I disagree with your main point. Other than that, I think you summarized the problem that faces us very well.

[Jack Black]

‘Miss America’: GOP Bigwig Alex Castellanos Claims House Speaker ‘What Delegates Really Want’

This story from Breitbart makes it as plain as day. The GOP establishment is using Cruz and will be done with him as soon as he succeeds in blocking Trump from the first round.