"It is going to be a contested convention," Cruz said

It will be fairly easy for Ted Cruz's, Canadian Cuban Navy to invade Cleveland by Lake Erie, let drug cartel leader el Chapo behead Trump, and capture the GOP nomination.

Admiral Cruz, Canadian Cubano Navy

That worked for him in the Senate for awhile. But then it stopped working. Cruz forced the Senate to listen to him. They did. They remained unconvinced, and then when he kept trying to do the same thing procedurally, they overrode the procedures and moved on.

It's fine to play procedural games, when you're in the minority, to a certain point, to make your point. But once you've made your point, been heard and still not persuaded, to persist with it to try to literally force a minority position on a majority - that doesn't work. It doesn't work because the majority can play the same game, and simply change the rules or disregard the old rule - who will STOP them - to prevent the angry and vocal minority from effecting a hijack.

Cruz cannot take over the GOP from within and drive out the majority. The majority will change the rules and expel Cruz and his people first.

The handwriting is already on the wall. Once Trump wins Indiana all hope of stopping him will evaporate among all realistic people. Cruz can doggedly seek to take over the process from within, but he'll fail and he'll alienate the new President.

As things stand, were Cruz to leave now, Trump will have plenty to focus on. But if Cruz stays and tries to disrupt everything, Trump will add changing the party so this cannot happen again - same thing that the Senate did to Cruz, to stop him from periodically disrupting everything.

The problem with signing onto the Cruz kamikaze mission against Trump is that what is going to happen is that the people who do that, who lash their causes to stopping Trump, are the most outlying causes in the Republican camp. If they lash themselves to go after Trump, they will not stop him from getting the nomination, and they won't stop him from winning the White House - huge number of middle class blue collar workers will vote Trump for economic reasons, and Trump's success will reorient the Republican Party to be a nationalist, white working class party, leaving the Democrat party with blacks, Hispanics, Jews, feminists, gays, transgenders, and a bunch of other minoritarian interests that won't be able to hold.

The Republicans cannot do that NOW because it is skewed too far to the rich, and to minoritarian arch-conservative interests.

Those interests are coalescing around Cruz. The billionaires are not stupid enough to ride the Cruz train into destruction, so they're already bending the knee to Trump, just like they did to Ike when Ike refused to repudiate the New Deal. Half a loaf is better than none.

But the causes that rally around Cruz are, like Cruz, the most absolutely unyielding, uncompromising and off-putting in the party. They are the unappeasable purists. But they've lost control. They MUST compromise somewhat, with Trump, to have a seat at the table. If instead they sign on with Cruz to go full kamikaze on Trump - and then Trump wins anyway with the blue collar crossovers, what that will MEAN is that pleasing middle and working class Democrat crossovers is the way to victory, and Trump will change the Republican Party to appeal to that broad middle.

The Democrats will be left with the minorities and the sexual lunatics, and the Cruzites will be left with the most hardcore bitter enders, and they'll be out of the party and out of power, and lose their ability to shape anything.

For my part, I think it would be better to keep the right wing fringe in the party. As a tactical matter the rape and incest exceptions on abortion are, for me, an unhappy but necessary compromise. I would like to have the right there as the conscience of the party, so that once Roe is overturned by a Trump court, and the country gets used to restricting abortion, that the majority for dealing with those exceptions is built.

But truth is the moment is rapidly coming where those who sign onto the Cruz ship will end up shoved out of the party once Trump clinches the win against their resistance.

"Yet Cruz's campaign has repeatedly shown superior organization and understanding when it comes to the arcane delegate-selection process ..."

That's right! We don't want a delegate who reflects the wishes of the majority. We want one who knows how to game the system.

Trump has won the most state primaries

Which earned him delegates' pledged votes for the first round (or more in some states) - nothing more. tRump thinks he's still on reality TV.

Trumps POPULAR VOTE is so vast, even the electoral college system won't defeat the popular vote.

Who would vote for Trump? Oh, thats right ... lazy, socialist Americans that want mexico to pay for a wall that has been on the books for almost a decade without Congressional funding. But, Trump is going to build the wall ... haw? charge Mexico because Congress won't pay for it?

Stupid Americans fall for the silliest things.

The people are sick and tired of politicians.... Including that shithead Ron Paultard.

Sorry to spoil your fun - but Ron Paul hasn't been a politician for 3 years.

The Trump support among the bound delegates is real soft.

Don't tell anyone about that wittle, itsie-bitsie teenie, tiny detail especially nolu chan....

Sorry to spoil your fun - but Ron Paul hasn't been a politician for 3 years.

I'm sorry to bring you to reality, but that's because Ron Pailtard was as popular as a mayor from a city with a population of 50,000

So shut your Paultard polisher.

Sorry to spoil your fun - but Ron Paul hasn't been a politician for 3 years.

True. Last I heard he was crapping his diapers in some Port Arthur retirement home while blaming America and the neocons about his awful rice pudding.

Ron Pailtard was as popular as

I'm sorry to bring you to reality, but here are the results from Paul's last congressional primary:

U. S. Representative District 14
John Gay REP 3,004 5.28%
Tim Graney REP 5,499 9.66%
Ron Paul(I) REP 45,990 80.77%
Gerald D. Wall REP 2,448 4.30%
- elections.sos.s tate.tx.us/elchist148_state.htm

and from the general election:

U. S. Representative District 14
Ron Paul(I) REP 140,623 75.99%
Robert Pruett DEM 44,431 24.01%
- elections.s os.state.tx.us/elchist154_state.htm

In April 2013, Paul founded the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, a foreign policy think tank that seeks to promote his non-interventionist views.[199] The institute is part of his larger foundation Foundation for Rational Economics and Education.

In the same month, he began to offer the Ron Paul Curriculum, a homeschool online curriculum developed by Gary North and taught from a "free market and Christian" perspective; it is free from grades kindergarten–5 and available to paid members from 6–12.[200]

In May 2015, Ron Paul started a new internet broadcast called the Ron Paul Liberty Report.

I'm sorry to bring you to reality, but here are the results from Paul's last congressional primary:

Didn't the douche bag lose 3 presidential primaries?

Now shake your head YES, dummy. Paultard is just a 6% LOOSER.

Cruz's delegate wins could be merely symbolic, though, if Trump secures the 1,237 delegates needed win the party's presidential nomination.

Yay!

Cruz's delegate "wins" are meaningless on the first round.

As was observed, last week was the nail in the coffin. Indiana will be when Cruz realizes he is in the coffin. There won't be a second round.

Didn't the douche bag lose 3 presidential primaries?

No, 2 - after the first of which he continued to easily win congressional nomination and election, proving that his no longer being a politician has nothing to do with lack of popularity, contrary to your loudly ignorant claim in post #10. But please continue braying for my amusement as I'm sure you will.

lose 3 presidential primaries?

Dr. Ron Paul won the Libertarian Party nomination in '88 and ran against Herbie "Grassy Knoll" Bush and Mike Dukakis.

But please continue braying for my amusement

I was amused to remind you that he will die before he wins presidency. The same goes for that other politician that's followed by an asshole cult too, Commie Sanders.

Now, say it. PRESIDENT TRUMP.

I'm sorry to bring you to reality

GI, How about his reality?

Of the 620 bills sponsored by Ron Paul during his long career in the House of Representatives, only four have ever made it to a vote on the House floor and only one of those became an actual law. An analysis by The Washington Post shows that Paul's success rate of 0.2 percent falls far below that of most legislators, as Paul has chosen to stand up for his personal crusades, rather that build coalitions for more popular, but less ambitious, proposals.

Now, let us all say: PRESIDENT TRUMP!

"Winning" is not the same as "winning the first vote."

Losing is losing.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=delegate+count&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN

Bing projects Trump will win Indiana and go to the convention with 1,364 delegates (Cruz 635, Kasich 185).

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Of the 620 bills sponsored by Ron Paul during his long career in the House of Representatives

Your factoid has nothing to do with anything previously discussed. But feel free to babble away.

Chan, Que the Roy Orbison - "It's Over" from Black and White Night - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M

Say it everyone, all together now: PRESIDENT TRUMP!

he will die before he wins presidency

Still leaves your loudly ignorant claim in post #10 a smoldering ruin. Better put some ice on that.

Ron Paul was the master of babble.

GO TRUMP.

He ain't popular enough to win shit

Except congressional nomination and election over and over again. Lack of national success is not why he's no longer a politician. Your claim is crap.

The same goes for that other politician that's followed by an asshole cult too, Commie Sanders.

ConservingFreedom defends as Ron Paul as aggressively as TooConservative.

Ron Paul is out of the political equation, pal. Get over it. Your problem is simple: elect Trump and find all of campaign promises to be pure, unadulterated bullshit. It is kinda like Bernie Sanders giving away everything: pure bullshit.

Ron Paul is out of the political equation

But unfortunately his asshole 6% rabid fan base isn't retired to piss in a bedpan. We must endure them here, bitching about Trump and staying quiet about commie "free shit" sanders and KILLary "bullshit" Clinton.

ConservingFreedom defends as [sic] Ron Paul as aggressively

No, I simply point out that GrandIsland is still beating an absent horse, then point out the flaws in his claim about why the horse is absent, then note your dragging in off-topic Paul factoids. If anyone's "aggressive" about Paul it's the two of you.

staying quiet about commie "free shit" sanders and KILLary "bullshit" Clinton.

I thought it went without saying that they each suck the sweat off dead goats' balls - despite tRump's statement that KILLary would make a great president.

Including that shithead Ron Paultard.

Still suffering from (Ron) Paul Derangement Syndrome are ya?

Unlike many other illnesses, PDS isn’t at all difficult to identify. The Paulophobe’s discourse on all matters pertaining to Ron Paul, or at least to Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy, is replete with, not just inconsistencies, but glaring inconsistencies, contradictions that are so profound that even a college freshman enrolled in an introductory logic course couldn’t help but to be pained by them.

To anyone remotely attuned to reality or possessed of a modicum of reason, the Paulophobe’s utterances can’t but sound like the babblings of a baby: indecipherable noises intending to signify we know not what.

If anyone's "aggressive" about Paul it's the two of you.

From way back at Liberty Post, they'd post up 20 anti Ron Paul articles on the sidebar, and then complain about "Paultards" hogging the site.

Those two are the reason that Paultards were invented.

From way back at Liberty Post, they'd post up 20 anti Ron Paul articles on the sidebar, and then complain about "Paultards" hogging the site.

Yeah, I remember that particular thread.

Gatlin and his merry band of pseudo-intellectuals (remember when Gatlin was caught plagiarizing several times?) were all guilty of spamming the site with dozens of hit pieces from obscure, slanted blogs, left wing websites, and even tried to use a disgraced former Paul Staffer (Eric Dondero) as a legitimate source several times.

I posted 2 or three pro-Paul articles, yet I had my posting privileges reduced to 5 a day.

They pulled the same crap in 2008.