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my understanding is that most delegates in this country are chosen by the party

"Chosen by the party" does not mean that the state level version of Reince Priebus leans bank in a chair, smoking a cigar, saying, okay Mr. Donor, you are going to go as a Trump delegate, but on the second ballot, you go for Mitt Romney.

In some states, slates of delegates run with a candidate. In Texas, Rick Perry would certainly be a Cruz delegate if he wants. Some states vote for the delegates themselves. In other states, delegates are selected by the candidate who won the delegates through his own organziation.

The Cruz campaign has been working on organizing delegates not only for the national convention, but for the state conventions as well. We have a much larger pool than what is needed. Those who donate to the Cruz campaign would certainly get consideratio, so would county chairs, and so would worker bees. Trump certainly has the means to ensure that he will get Trump minded delegates, as he should. Just 10 days ago we had our big meeting to select delegates to the county convention, which in turn sleects delagtes to the state convention.

Here's the problem for armchair conservatives. If you don't go to the county/town meetings, you are not in the game. Sometimes you will see a candidate who is on the ballot, but doesn't have a large enough slate of delegates. If the candidate happened to win the vote, only the delegates on his slate could be selected. THEN , he could lose delegates.

Go to YouTube. Look at some videos of the 1976 Republican convention, where Foprd beat Reagan by about 75 votes, and tell me ANY delegate in that room was going to switch from Reagan if there had been a second ballot.

Delegates could theoretically be bought off with political promises, or some horse trading (VP pick, etc) I don't see any Cruz delegates caving on that. I don't see any Trump delegates doing it either. Heck, I don't see Carson delegates doing it. Rubio delegates, well . . . Kasich delegates ...the same.

We have a huge advantage. We have no interest in maintaining the power structure of the Republican Party as it presently exists. The rats are being flushed out. We will make notes of Allies, Enemies and Frenemies (enemies who might be willing to cooperate against a more dangerous third enemy).