[jetpilot]

More insults, more emotion, and more opinions with nothing to back them up. If you want to take an inventory of who has consistently linked references to support his opinions, you might be surprised at how little evidence you have cited to back your opinions in the Trump threads.

Every state has its own rules on delegate selection. In rare cases, winning candidates get to choose a few of their their own delegates, but that is the exception. In most cases, delegates are selected at state conventions or other meetings of party activists. That is where the Cruz campaign has run circles around Trump. If Trump loses the nomination, it will be because he failed to recognize the importance of a strong national ground organization. Had Cruz skipped state conventions and failed to organize at the state level in advance of conventions, he would be out of the running.

If neither Trump nor Cruz had worked to get their delegates seated, it would have been easy for the establishment to have filled those slots, changed the rules, and allowed Ryan to be nominated. As it is, Cruz will probably control the rules committee and will be able to block rules changed.

If Trump is unsure about being able to win 1,237 delegates before the California primary, then, if I am not mistaken, Kasich could withdraw from the race and his delegates would be committed to Trump on the first ballot because of Ohio's primary rules.

There is no conspiracy to steal anything from Trump. The rules are the same for everybody, Trump just did not bother to learn them. He relied heavily on his name recognition and free media coverage. If he wins on the first ballot, then he well look like a genius but if he loses on the second ballot, then it will be nobody's fault but his own for not preparing for the contingency of a contested convention.

I have no idea what planet you are on. Everyone seems to know there is except you. Tell it to Colorado voters. :eyeroll: The party establishment controls the nominee and not the voters. If you want to say the party establishment can do whatever it wants and it's okay that is something different. Stop having primaries and acting like voters have a voice and faking a democracy and tell voters what they are finding out - their votes don't matter. People are waking up and they don't want the process left in the hands of a few corrupt, incompetent political hacks.