“The obvious path in this strategy is for the insurgent delegates to hijack the rules committee and strip many of the Trump delegates of their credentials. They don’t have to create a first round victory for Not Trump, they merely have to deny Trump a victory. If this happens, Trump and his clown posse will leave the convention in a huff, Roger Stone’s flying monkeys will get a well deserved wood shampoo from Cleveland’s finest and then an actual nominee will be selected.
Once Trump is gone, then the real dogfight starts. Cruz may or may not prevail. And Cruz undoubtedly knows this. If he isn’t able to win on a second ballot then the doors are wide open to a compromise candidate. That will not be some go-along-get-along apparatchik anointed by the GOP leadership. Delegates that have carried off this coup will never, ever agree to that. We could see Rubio reemerge as a contender. Or Rick Perry. Or Scott Walker. Or someone else but whoever it is will be a quantum leap over Donald Trump.”
This is what I have thought will happen for a long time.
I have said for a long time that Cruz is being used as a tool to stop Trump. Just as the media is. Just as the party bosses are.
The candidate will be either Trump or someone acceptable to the GOPe.
My thought is they will strip some Trump delegates of their credentials. They will hold the first ballot at a time and place when delegates can not be there. Perhaps work with the Soros thugs to block traffic.
After the first ballot the new narrative will be that Republicans need a “dream team” to unify the party and defeat Hillary.
The narrative will be that the party needs to put the bad blood behind them from the ugly, divisive and distasteful primaries and find a fresh intelligent candidate who can unite the party and win. I think the Cruz delegates are starting to realize that they are being used. They are realizing that there are those scheming to disenfranchise the voters and let Hillary Clinton win in the general election. The delegates do not want to have to go back to their home states and have to explain why they have been a part of this scheming. They do not want to be a part of this.
Well, my thought is this is all bluster, that it will never happen. Trump will secure the nomination on the first ballot because of support from most factions of the GOP. #nevertrump will be the ones leaving the convention. In my view, they should never be let in and allowed any time at all talking about how Trump blows up the world if he wins in the General Election.
They are making their "black lists" and so forth, I say let them leave and run their 3rd party candidate, OR, suck it up and LOSE finally. It will be hard for them, they just can't stand it, so they just might have to pack the scarf and put it on the stick and move on down the tracks. But so what. Good riddance already, I'm way tired of being called deaf, dumb, and blind.