Who wants slaves to the GOPe picking RINOs for the nominee?
Those "non-Republicans" are independents who burned their Republican cards, only to come back when they saw Trump was running. If Republicans acted like Republicans, then yes, we should have closed primaries.
This is all true, but not relevant. The Republican Party is a club all are invited to. Only those that accepted the invitation should have a say in that part of the process.
Independents can hope for an outcome. If they were never part of the fold, they should have no say. If they walked away they said to the fold they were no longer interested in having a say. If they now like the Party, let them rejoin and make sure good guys control the Congress. They can still contribute. Replace guys like Ryan and McCain with conservatives if they get the chance.
These days I'm all in for Trump. If I was independent, now that Trump has all the marbles, I could find my way into a polling place this November and vote for him.
I don't...never did. Nevertheless, that's something for Republicans to decide.
GOPe can do whatever they like. Regardless, in every political convention I ever attended the delegates had full authority to make convention rules and pick any nominee they chose.
I don't know or care how the Democrats do things. I have only attended GOP conventions for the last 30 years.
I have never been a delegate at the National convention, but I will bet sawbucks to lock washers that the delegates in Cleveland have the authority to overrule anything GOPe wants to do as long as a leader organizes them in some direction.
Trump owns the convention. Nevertheless, it says right here, if the delegates all conspired to nominate some homeless guy who lives under a bridge in spaghetti junction, the delegates have that right. The delegates, in the end, control each and every rule at a convention.