This all really boils down to a choice between Trump or a GOPe favored candidate. But, hey, maybe you have a contrary view and rating so post away.
I’ll say 7
-2
2
9
Zero Point Zero
-3 ... Even Ted is clueless as to the sacrificial goat the GOPe is placing in him. The establishment is using ted to remove the Donald, so they, the GOPe can place their choice in the nomination spot.
Zero
At that point, do you think they are going to hand the party over to an adulterous bible thumper that they all hate? Not gonna happen.
It's going to Mitt, Ryan, Yeb or, maybe, Walker is in on it now too.
Minus 1.
The GOP-E will NEVER give it to Cruz.
They want another Leftist Loser Throw-The-Fight type candidate
I am betting the gopE will put some un-named familier face. No one now in the running.
If they can manage to ax the guy with the most votes, because they don’t like him....what kind of fevered imagination does it require to believe they’ll allow the other guy they don’t like to have it with even less than the most votes????
It depends very much on who the delegates are. Has Trump organized at the county and state level to get favorable people elected as delegates in states where candidates dont choose delegates?
Because Ted has been organizing at that level, I give him at least an 8 out of 10.
I rate it as a “1” — total impossibility, as you defined it.
Cruz is just being used by the GOPe to deny Trump the needed 1237 delegates, and if that is successful, they will pull the rug out from under Cruz, he won’t know what hit him. Too bad he doesn’t think and look around now and realize what is happening.
At least his current supporters need to stop and think, and not throw the election to the GOPe, in bed with Hillary,
by voting for Cruz.
For Cruz to win, you need to believe that the delegates currently committed to nonTrump candidates will not under any circumstances cast their votes for Trump and that they believe Cruz is the better candidate.
The problem is your assumptions. An open convention is not a "brokered" convention. Brokering implies more centralized control. What will happen is the delegates themselves have to settle on a nominee and some of them are going to have to change their votes after the first ballot, once they are unbound. It may not require any negotiating at all to get a nominee, but if there is it will be negotiating between the candidates and the delegates, not some hidden power.
Which leads to the second invalid assumption. The GOPe doesn't dictate the result of the open convention. The delegates will decide. The same delegates that were won by the Trump, Cruz and Carson campaigns in the first place.
0.
You do realize that the GOPe got behind him only as a means of neutralizing Trump, right?
You do realize they will eviscerate him the moment he has fulfilled his purpose, right?
You’re really not so dim that you aren’t aware of that, right?
-8
It’s either Trump or Cruz. There is no try. Whoever wins will have a majority though so I would not call it “brokered.”
10 (if he runs trump over with his car)