This particular instance is anti-American, but they have their counterparts globally, and they’re all on the same page.
These smart fellers must all need a calendar. Trump’s been in the race since June 2015 and has been winning for months. Only now they decide they have an emergency on their hands?
Short of the old ‘live boy/dead girl’ political disaster scenario, what do the mucky-mucks imagine they can do or say to stop Trump now? As Pat says, they have spent millions and spilled oceans of ink already to little effect. In fact, their smug preaching and snide insults have had the opposite of the intended effect. The GOPe is indistinguishable from the DNC in their sad, desperate, predictable use of tired old David Duke and KKK smears.
The talk of rigging the convention is just that - talk. Short Attention Span America is a problem but not in this case...they simply won’t stand for premeditated and obvious cheating no matter how many times DC talking heads explain it. On a practical level their only hope is Cruz and if Cruz goes along with it he risks a backlash and quite legitimate charges of hypocrisy. Surely he is clever enough to know that a rattlesnake curling around his leg isn’t there to give him a hug.
Note that the lefties aren’t moaning about Citizens United when all the dark money is spent on taking down the GOP frontrunner.
Buchanan, admittedly, has his own axes to grind with the GOP and the Bushies (possibly redundant) over his treatment in ‘92 in which he was the maverick candidate. But that only means he knows of that which he speaks.