[Hugin]

A suspicious person might think the GOP was holding this to release in order to knock Cruz out after he had won the caucuses where his organization gave him a good chance to win. Now there are a bunch of elections in northern states where they want Kasich to be the only alternative to Trump. Of course that would mean they were only using Trump to get an open convention so they could foist someone other than Trump or Cruz on us. Nah, that’s just paranoid.

[Hugin]

Above should read “only using Cruz”, not Trump. It’s late.

[spetznaz]

As I told another FREEPER, that was the plan all along and why the GOPe has been totally comfortable supporting Cruz as their tool to force a Contested Convention. They had two reasons - (1) Cruz was the only person who could, at whatever level, compete against Trump and (2) at a Contested Convention, they could then release detailed information on the (alleged) affairs and use that to take Cruz out of the running. Consequently, they could then put a third person that is neither Trump nor Cruz.

In a nutshell, this is why the GOPe were totally comfortable supporting Cruz. They had a poison pill prepared.

No matter what Romney and Bush might say, there was no way they'd support Cruz all the way. They always planned on having someone else get selected at a Brokered Convention, and thus the story was meant to come out the moment it was for certain that Trump had not breached the minimum cutoff.

For that matter, the GOPe would probably have blamed the leak on a sour Trump.

[novemberslady]

A suspicious person might think the GOP was holding this to release in order to knock Cruz out after he had won the caucuses where his organization gave him a good chance to win.
Now there are a bunch of elections in northern states where they want Kasich to be the only alternative to Trump.
Of course that would mean they were only using Cruz to get an open convention so they could foist someone other than Trump or Cruz on us.
Nah, that’s just paranoid.

And how 'bout those who knew this...and blackmailed Cruz once they had him where they wanted to...

Nah just more paranoia...
WHO COULD BE SO LOW?

I axsk you...

[johniegrad]

A suspicious person might think the GOP was holding this to release in order to knock Cruz out after he had won the caucuses where his organization gave him a good chance to win. Now there are a bunch of elections in northern states where they want Kasich to be the only alternative to Trump. Of course that would mean they were only using Trump to get an open convention so they could foist someone other than Trump or Cruz on us. Nah, that’s just paranoid.

I don't know if your last sentence was sarcastic or not, or if you're paranoid or not ;-), but I think your scenario is at least possible if not probable.

[TigerClaws]

I knew this when Romney endorsed Cruz one week, then Kasich the next. They are moving the piece on the board to block Trump.

Cruz doesn’t realize he will be tossed aside at the appropriate time with someone the GOPe finds acceptable.

Cruz at this point is strictly a block for Trump. He has zero chance of winning.

The affairs were kept out of the controlled state media until the approppriate time. However, after the shots on his wife Trump decided to drop the bomb.