Nice little party you’ve got there…
by digby
Rich Lowry lays out the choices before the GOP right now:
Since it seems unlikely that Cruz can overtake Trump in the delegate count, the most favorable non-Trump scenario is that Cruz beats him on a second ballot at a convention and has enough anti-establishment credibility to take the edge off the inevitable revolt of the Trump forces. But surely Trump would do all he could to destroy Cruz and the GOP in retribution for denying him the nomination—lawsuits, innuendo and lies would all be ready and familiar tools at Trump’s disposal, even if he didn’t try to mount a late independent bid.
Trump’s implicit threat is almost certainly lose with me in a simulacrum of a normal process (and lose your integrity and principles along the way), or almost certainly lose without me in an intraparty cataclysm I will make as spectacular as possible. Either way, the GOP is now managing bad outcomes.
It’s a bitch having someone hold you hostage and threaten to blow up the whole thing unless you get your way, isn’t it? I wonder where he got the idea?