The idea of a loss is difficult to accept. The reality is that Trump's scorched earth policy has not endeared him in the least to the other candidate's delegates. In fact, it has repelled them. They are far more likely to coalesce behind "anyone other than Trump." He could well go into the convention with a plurality and not win the nomination.
“The idea of a loss is difficult to accept. The reality is that Trump’s scorched earth policy has not endeared him in the least to the other candidate’s delegates. In fact, it has repelled them. They are far more likely to coalesce behind “anyone other than Trump.” He could well go into the convention with a plurality and not win the nomination.”
I hear you. Those hard feelings are hard to make go away. The way Romney treated the Ron Paul folks in 2012 was shameful and we lost a bunch of them forever to the conservative movement.
Either way, a large bunch of tea party/anti-establishment folks are going to come out of this convention severely butt-hurt. The reason feelings run so high is that we actually had a chance to elect a conservative this year in a wave election and we are probably going to blow it. It is the greatest political opportunity since 1980. And pretty much nothing will come of it, in my opinion.