I can definitely see where you are coming from but that move would have severe consequences.

Either Romney or Paul Ryan. I think it is already a done deal.

Choice 1: They have this train wreck of a candidate

Choice 2: They go against the will of the voters and piss their base the hell off. That will not go well.

Either way, it should be interesting.

I see almost zero chance of another outcome.

They're not going to tear their already fractured party to shreds by handing the nomination to somebody who didn't run. And they're certainly not going to hand it to Cruz, who they barely like any better than Trump.

Cleveland's distancing the protest groups so far from the arena.

and that all the attentions Dems spend on him is less they will have for the real candidate.

races. But they should be loudly rejecting Trump's outrageous statements and unendorsing him. By not doing so, they are going down with him.

Donald Dump is the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic party. I hope GOP Inc., will try to overthrow Dump. It will be a beautiful and joyous sight to see. It might just destroy their whole party!

and so they will take Trump and lump it.

You undermine your entire organization when you have someone win by using the process and then tell everyone who participated that it was just for funsies. They are stuck with him.

they likely are going to lose big this cycle, but can say "OK dumb asses, you got your guy, now get back in line" and find whatever bullshit they need to work against Hillary in the mid term.

But, if they take the nomination from the guy who has the most votes, delegates and states, by far, and even worse, someone with such a dumb ass volatile mentality, they will lose those pods, who have won them a LOT of elections for nearly half a century now, for a generation or so.

the alternatives they have are two losers for president, and the 16 dwarves that lost to tRump. You don't want to put someone out there that is a proven loser. Then you're left with a newcomer with no infrastructure. No I think they are going to take the humiliation and regroup for 2020. Albeit with some interesting primary rule changes. They may go back to party boss nominating.

If the republicans who support him can see in the polls that Clinton will be Trump, then i think they would not hesitate to replace him.

One way or the other, it won't be him on the top of the ticket.

If they dump him there could be a major explosion.

And it could be the whole Federal Republican party.

I('m sure all the state and local Republican lowbrows will still do just fine once again and keep control of the nation. )

Something like 10+ points regularly, like it was in march, and perhaps another episode of racist controversy for them to pull it off.

And that's the thing, why are we all assuming Trump is automatically going to lose in a landslide? Even after his disastrous 10 days he's still polling within 5 points of Hillary and is still competitive in swing states like Florida/Pennsylvania.

We need to stop making assumption that this is a automatic landslide win.

Lets not forget, we have nominated the most unpopular democratic nominee of all time, and would have had the worst favorables ever had Trump not won.

If the gop picks the right candidate ....

The mess of this primary is uncharted territory for both major parties. Personally, I've stopped worrying about it. The party I have worked within my entire adult life, has basically told me they don't give a shit about me and don't want to hear what I have to say. Loyalty is a two way street or it's not at all.

They will cringe at his open racism (to them, racism needs to be more carefully coded), but ultimately they don;t have a problem supporting a racist if he gives them some of what they want.

I expect a rules change at their convention.

somehow as Trump tanks their party, he (Trump) will make multi millions out of it.

To me this is a win-win-win!

Why wouldn't they want him to be their candidate?

If they boot him, with whom will they replace him? Paul "Nope" Ryan? Ted Cruz, the man with all the charisma of day-old roadkill? They're stuck with him and they know it.

I've been saying Romney on the third or maybe even sixth ballot. I had Jeb and Clinton at first but Trump is exceeding my expectations every day

I could see that.

That is if it is true that the current rules of their convention expire once it starts. But that wouldn't make any sense.