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And it bothers you. Why?

Because it would totally splinter the party and hand Hillary the election.

Please explain for us any scenario, now that Ted Cruz has been mathematically eliminated from securing the nomination, wherein Ted Cruz steals the nomination from Donald Trump, that doesn't splinter the party.

You're not thinking this through. There is absolutely nothing positive that could come out of Cruz usurping the nomination from the clear frontrunner.

If Cruz and Trump were close or tied, things would be different.

But instead, Cruz's foolish pride risks destroying all the voter enthusiasm that Trump has generated, splintering the party, causing millions of Trump voters to stay home, and guaranteeing a loss to Hillary in the general election.

There is absolutely no upside to a contested convention scenario, unless the logical thing happened and Trump won anyway. Without that, the only outcome would be a fractured party, with a displaced frontrunner.

It's totally insane. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. The only solution would be for the GOPe to go "off the board" and select some reliable insider like Kasich or Jeb, which would still wreck the party's chances in November.

The GOPe has engineered a situation, with their toxic character assassination campaign against Donald Trump, that guarantees a Hillary win should he be displaced.

It's a simple as that, and the current state of affairs is entirely the fault of the GOPe and Ted Cruz's ego and narcissism, which now dwarfs that of Donald Trump.

Step back for a moment and think things through as an American. I know Cruz is your man. He is Jeff Head's man too, but Jeff Head sees what will happen should we have a contested convention and Trump not win. That's why he authored his open letter to Senator Cruz, which presents a compelling argument supporting the scenario I've outlined.

Now Ted Cruz's delegate deficit is (and will be) so large that it's very likely that Donald Trump would still get the nomination at a contested convention.

But the risk to the party and the country if that didn't happen is simply too great.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no benefit to doing so.

If you think millions of Donald Trump voters are going to let themselves be disenfranchised by a conspiracy to deny him the nomination (and that's exactly what has been going on, though it appears it will fail) then you must be smoking something both potent and illegal in most states. For medial reasons, no doubt.

As I said: set aside your blind devotion to Ted Cruz for just a moment, and think about what would happen. Suppose Cruz got the nomination at a contested convention. There's simply no realistic scenario that would save the party from splintering irreparably. None.

The strategy makes no sense. It's literally insane!

Do you really want to win the battle, only to lose the war? That is the overwhelmingly likely scenario which you're hoping for.

Essentially, you want to roll the dice with the future of the party and the country, because of your fanatical devotion to Ted Cruz. And that's what Ted Cruz is willing to do, too, which is yet another clear sign that he's not ready to be President.

Donald Trump supporters have nothing on Cruz fanboys when it comes to fanatical devotion, even to the detriment of the party and the country.

I'd like ANY Cruz supporter to explain ANY plausible scenario where this insane tactic doesn't splinter the party and destroy its chances in November.

As far as I'm aware, our leaders don't have those high-tech zapper pens like they had in "Men In Black", which erased a person's memory, and, barring a device like that being used on every Trump voter, a splintered, discouraged, unenthusiastic GOP electorate is the only possible outcome of the nomination being stolen from Donald Trump.

I anxiously await the presentation of any plausible alternative scenario to the contrary.

There is none, because Ted Cruz will arrive at the convention with little more than 700 delegates or so, at best.

There could have been other plausible outcomes, had the "NeverTrump" conspiracy never been launched and executed, but with the way things are, having hopelessly poisoned the well, the GOPe has made its bed, and now it must sleep in it.

And that means that Donald Trump must be the GOP nominee if there's to be any chance of avoiding an electoral disaster in November.

A blind man could see it with a cane.

If the situation between the two candidates were reversed, I would be advocating for Donald Trump to step aside for the good of the party and the country.

Be honest with yourself. You know that is the right thing to do for Ted Cruz. If it's not, then it's incumbent on you provide an argument for that. You can't just cross your fingers and hope and pray for a miracle. That's not fair to the voters, the party, or the nation, and it risks everything.

So fire away...

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