[AmericanInTokyo]

There is NO STEALING going on here. Only NO FULL UTILIZATION of the Rules by Team Trump. To their detriment. And they are scurrying with Manafort on the county and state levels now to get in the game that Ted Cruz knows from politics, but that Trump apparently was oblivious to coming from a non political background. SUN TZU said in the Art of War, first one must know the terrain of battle. Can he catch up though?

[central_va]

Cruz is Mitt’s sock puppet and the GOPe’s butt boy. Next Cruz will be stroking Mitch McConnell.

[Defiant]

Did Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole and Bush have to hire people to get the delegates they won in state primaries sent to the national convention? Or are these "rules" you and other cruzbots keep referring to really a way of saying that the Republican party controls national, state and county parties, and so can overcome the will of the voters of their party by shenanigans that an upstart could never do anything about? Isn't that what you really mean?

They can play this game if they want, but it will end in the destruction of the Republican party. The voters want to take it over and kick out all the bums, but the party apparently has controls in place so that the rubes who vote for Republicans can't do that.

I have heard what Trump is doing compared to a hostile takeover of a corporation, but others have said it is more of a shareholder revolt to replace the board of directors. I think the latter is more apt. However, this corporation has a board that has ways to tell the shareholders to take a hike and go to hell. Of course, by doing that, the corporation will go under, but the board doesn't care, they have all been guaranteed huge golden parachutes.