He's pumped! He's ready! It's his turn!
1, The first thing that will be said is that Trump and Cruz are too divisive. The wise statesmen in the party will claim that the party must unify if it is to win. Cruz will be portrayed as a right wing extremist who is unpopular and therefore incapable of leading the party. Trump will be portrayed as a racist and a crude, bombastic hater who will not gain the votes of independents. The media will say that the Republican Party needs a statesman. The media will say the Republicans need a true conservative who appeals to all people like Ronald Reagan.
2. The media will then identify people who fit the role as uniter, statesmen and true conservative. The candidates that they say fit that description will be Jeb!, Lindsey Graham, Romney, Carly Fiorino and maybe Paul Ryan. Conservatives will object. The media will then say conservatives are too emotional and trying to split the party and lose the election. Democrats will say that they want to run against Trump but fear Romney, Jeb! and Lindsey Graham.
3. Next, for the good of the party Jeb! will announce he will selflessly back out. Jeb! will be portrayed by the media as a brave, unselfish hero who is totally different from the racist haters who support Trump.
4. Finally, a compromise will be reached. I am guessing Romney and Rubio but perhaps Ryan and Rubio or Romney and Ryan. The media will applaud the new found wisdom of the Republican Party in rejecting the right wing extremist Cruz and the racist demagogue Trump.
5. The Republicans will lose the general election in a landslide. The media and the Republican elites will blame Trump and his supporters. The GOPe will vow to change the direction of the party and eliminate racism and border security and right wing extremism from the party.
If Cruz wants to keep his anti-establishment cred, he should form a unity ticket with Trump to defeat the GOP-e.
Self serving POS
Possible but unlikely.
Someone is going to amass the needed delegates and it would likely be Trump.
For the party to shove him aside would be committing political suicide.
Even people opposed to Trump would never accept a candidate the elites might foist on the party already rejected by the voters.
They have to work with the front-runner and nominee apparent whether they like it or not.
The guy who played second fiddle to Willard Romney and got his clock cleaned at a debate against Joe Biden?
The GOPe will hand it to Hillery before they let Trump or Cruz take it
You will see half of the base leave the Party.
If it is any combination of those you opine, besides being a “will not vote for,” there will also be some very bad down-ticket hell for the Republicans in general. I know I’m done with them, that’s for sure.
Ryan was even the guy who allowed himself to be tagged with losing a VP debate to Obama’s Court Jester Joe Biden, who gave a moronic debate performance and made a grinning fool of himself but still beat Ryan like a drum and claimed victory over Ryan and made it stick.
That was pathetic and embarrassing
Ryan is not ready for prime time as a national candidate, much less President of the United States
This was made clear by his performance as Romney's VP and is reinforced by his performance as House Speaker .
Whatever. It’s Trump or dump the GOP as far as I’m concerned. However I don’t really believe it will happen. Politicians are too cowardly. All those Trump voters live in their districts and they will hear from them if they persist. The officeholders who are talking about stopping Trump will start to peel away faced with a tsunami of voter outrage. First a few, then in bunches, like a losing army breaking when it realizes they are about to be overrun.
HOW BAD COULD IT POSSIBLY GET!?!?
Just think, little Eddie Munster as our president. It was bad enough having to look at Obama for all of these years but little Eddie!
The GOPe has clearly shown that it never represented the working class Americans....Ever!
So in 1852 who played Paul Ryan's part at the Whig convention?
If Trump is even close to the required number of delegates, then he simply won’t concede anything. He’d sooner carpet bomb downtown Cleveland from his 757.
You do understand that rule changes and the candidate will still require a majority of the delegates? And that around 2000 of those delegates will have been elected to support Trump or Cruz?
Any compromise will be between Trump and Cruz supporters. The establishment will get no say-so.
The establishment broker talk is just a scheme by Rove and Diaz, et al, to scam a few more millions from foolish big donors.
Piss on Ryan!!!!
If anyone but Trump or Cruz is the nominee..the GOP is over..finished..kaput..
FUPR!
The RNC/GOP do not care if they lose.
Their purpose is to block the citizens from electing a President that will stop The Cheap Labor Express
Both parties are committed to keeping the borders open and the laws unenforced.
We will not be allowed to keep the rule of law or our country.
The fact that Paul Ryan would even suggest that he may reach for the nomination in a contested convention (on the night of Trump’s massive win) is evidence of just how far he and the GOPe are disassociated from reality.
It should clue Trump in to how many long knives in the GOPe establishment are out to get him.
After he defeats them, Hillary will be a cakewalk.
Ryan is toxic to his base right now. He is worse than Rubio!