Those are the rules. Not whim. Not plurality. The MAJORITY. Those are the rules.
Theo, Theo, Theo, you are parsing words the same way Cruz does in an attempt to intentionally mislead people. You know much better than that. Trump does not need to get to 1237 before the convention to win on the first ballot. The leadership has control over hundreds of “unbound delegates” if Trump is a little short they will steer enough of them his way for him to be the nominee. The only way this wouldn't happen is if Trump were to falter big time before the convention or if he signaled to them that he was going to be extremely disruptive to the party.
We are seeing a lot of posturing from the party leadership, Cruz and Trump. The leadership appears to have aligned themselves with Cruz and completely infiltrated his campaign team, but they have the same amount of dedication to him as Romney did to Kasich. Cruz has been used as a tool for the leadership to pry delegates away from Trump. But they are doing this not to defeat Trump but to flex their muscle and to try and get Trump under their control. It has all been a form of negotiation.
The party leadership is perfectly happy to go with the narrative that Cruz has won delegates in Colorado, Wyoming, and elsewhere where the voters had no real input because of his “superior ground game”. Wyoming is a perfect example. The Cruz campaign actually invested very little time, effort, or money in Wyoming. The party leadership had complete control over the Wyoming process. They gave the delegates to Cruz as a way to show Trump the type of control that they have over the process. Cruz has become just a hapless pawn in this game.
The more delegates the leadership can siphon off before the convention, the more control they will be able to negotiate away from Trump. You don't seem to get that Cruz lost the game around a month ago. The only real hope that he had is that Trump would falter big time before the convention.
We have just seen the last big push by the establishment in Utah, Wisconsin, Colorado and Wyoming. That was their big show. For the most part the remaining states before the convention heavily favor Trump. The polls show that Trump is starting to surge again. Cruz tried to take credit for muscle flexing by the party leadership in Colorado and Wyoming. But this has hurt more than helped him. It played right into the Lyin’ Ted narrative, especially when he went on national TV and referred to Colorado and Wyoming as 11 victories in a row or whatever it was he said. It just made him look stupid and even more dishonest.
It is becoming more and more obvious every day that the GOP insiders who have now completely infiltrated Cruz's campaign team could not care less about Cruz's image or his future. He is now being used like I have never been seen before. They are now making him look like a caricature of himself. It is not an accident, I don't think at this point he has any control left over what is going on with his campaign. Cruz is too smart to be making the types of public relations mistakes he has been making lately. His image and career are being destroyed, sadly his dedicated followers such as yourself can't even see it.
We’ll see.