If Trump sweeps the primaries, and he is cheated at the convention, there will be trouble. Why would he not be like any other candidate? Remember if in the end he has won everything, he will have gotten enough party bureaucrats with him because they want influence.
Oh I agree. But rule thirteen was built to prevent someone like Trump from hindering the insider process. Face it...various people are trying to rig up the process where Walker might win two or three of the first five primaries...then realities come into play and Bush surges forward. The debates are the only place where the cards might be reshuffled and ranking might change.
The whole strategy of Cruz might be to draw X amount of votes away from someone, and Cruz gets the attorney general job, and later gets nominated for the Supreme Court. If you look forward over the next eight years...at least four justices will retire by 2024 (end of the Republican administration). It wouldn’t surprise me if we see two of the replacements go by and by 2020...after four years as Attorney General, Cruz gets the nod and steps over to the court into the third slot to come open.