The front runner is the guy on top. If the convention replaces the front runner with someone who had less popular support?
That’s why they are getting riot gear in place ...
Cleveland Stocking Up On Riot Gear Ahead Of Republican National Convention...
http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/03/cleveland_seeking_to_buy_riot.html
IF CRUZ WERE A STATESMAN, he would fight to be front runner himself and not utter word one about being ‘fine’ with ousting the front runner. He could simply refuse to even consider it.
He blew it. Cruz exposed himself as being more ambitious than patriotic.
Who give’s a rat’s patootie whom you annount with the term “frontrunner”? If moderate Mitt Romney hadn’t gotten a *majority* of delegates for the 2012 Convention, I would have fought tooth and nail for Rick Santorum to have been nominated, since MAJORITY RULES and if Santorum had gotten a majority of delegates at tbe convention (by adding delegatesfor him, Newt and other conservatives) then it would mean that SANTORUM WOULD HAVE HAD MAJORITY SUPPORT. Why the heck wouldn’t we have wanted a nominee that was more conservative and who was supported by a majority of delegates (whether on the first or second ballot)? And how would it be “undemocratic” for the choice of the majority of delegates (elected by GOP primary voters for the purpose of nominating the president and VP) to win the nomination?
I see no reason to allow a liberal like Trump—who is *far* more liberal than Romney on most issues, *including immigration* (remember, Trump criticized Romney *from the left* on immigration—to get the nomination if he doesn’t have a majority of delegates. I suspect that he’ll try to make a deal with Kasich (the second most liberal Republican in the race, after Romney) to get Kasich delegates to vote for Trump and maybe get a majority that way, and it’s Trump’s right to do so, but such a result would mean that liberal Republicans, pissed-off (but liberal) Democrats and a few bamboozled conservatives would have taken over the party and nominated the most liberal candidate out there (probably with the second most liberal, Kasich, as his runningmate). I will be on the other camp, fighting to nominate conservative Ted Cruz—by far the most conservative Republican since at least Robert A. Taft to win GOP presidential primaries (yes, Cruz is more conservative than even my heroes Barry Goldwater and Ronaldus Maximus)—even if he entered the Convention lacking even more delegates than Romney to reach a majority. I would hope that all conservatives would come to their senses and back the conservative in the race.