If their goal is to keep Trump’s voters from voting, then they can accomplish that by shoving someone I don’t support down my throat. If Trump or Cruz are not at the top of the ticket, then for the first time in my voting life, I will sit this election out, because my doing so will not affect the outcome of the general at all. There is no way on God’s green earth that any limp-wristed GOPe lackey is going to beat Hillary, it won’t happen, because there is hardly any support for any of them, even within the Republican party, much less outside of it. They won’t win any Dem crossovers, or many independents/blacks/Hispanics - and the Dems will come out to be “part of history” to have the first woman, regardless of what a lying, scheming, self-interested, evil piece of excrement she is. Therefor, this time, if the GOPe subverts the will of their constituents to serve their own purposes, they will get a major comeuppance not just from me, I suspect, but from most of those whose back they’ll have left daggers in.
“If Trump or Cruz are not at the top of the ticket, then for the first time in my voting life, I will sit this election out”
Same here, though I’ll probably write-in Trump not just for President, but on EVERY race as a message. That actually would be fun: start a movement to write-in Trump on every ballot for every race in the event the GOPe manages to nuke Trump.