The issue I have is the expectation that the result of a Brokered Convention will be Cruz coming out on top. the GOPe will never allow that, and unfortunately a good number of delegates have their allegiance to the GOPe. If it even gets to a fourth vote, you can be sure that there will be another person - selected by the GOPe as a 'unifying candidate' - and that person will be the Republican candidate. That candidate will not be Trump, and that candidate will not be Cruz.
At the Convention, someone like Kasich actually has a better chance than Trump and Cruz. I am not saying it will be Kasich, just saying he has a better chance than the other two at a Convention.
Anyway, I hope you are correct and that the result of a convention will be a Cruz win (I am one of the few who are okay with Trump or Cruz and has decided not to get involved in stupid anti-Trump/anti-Cruz vitriol).
Unfortunately, I fully expect that you will be disappointed, and that the GOPe will put one of their own.
You will be further disappointed in the General Election when Hillary steamrolls the GOP and wins the 270 needed to win the presidency. People are focusing on the 1,243 when they should be looking at the 270, and the result of a Brokered Convention will be many Republican/Conservative voters refusing to vote. Already the Republican Party suffers from a Demographic disadvantage, that only keeps growing every 4 years, and disenfranchised voters simply make it more possible for the Democrats to win.
Let me stop now and let FR continue with its anti-Trump/anti-Cruz bashing. After all, as members of the 'Stupid Party,' FReepers should have a full opportunity to engage in the self-defeating games the wider party is engaged in.
Very well said. And after a self-imposed period of mostly lurking, I have decided to focus on what must happen to thwart the plans of the party establishment; that being a Trump-Cruz alliance. Recall that a version of that worked to thin out the herd.
It is up to these two to unite in getting a Rules Package to the floor that assures that ONLY one of the two's names may be put into nomination. That locks the door on the Rove/Romney strategy.
How an alliance works out in the long run is uncertain to my mind. But, it is clear to me that a war to the death between the two pretty much leaves the establishment calling all the shots.
We at the base need to be smarter than our preferred candidate have shown themselves to be so far.