AT YOUR OWN PERIL

They call it "The Republican Predicament" as if it's new or unique to this election.

It isn't. But that's what the on-the-ropes mainstream Republican party wants voters to believe.
More on that later.

These people love to cite polls but only those they like and those that buttress their point. So in their less-than-up-front attempt to derail Trump, they cite a recent poll supposedly saying their last straw of a hope, Ohio Governor John Kasich, is the only one who can beat Hillary head-to-head in November.

Though they do admit in a rare flash of honesty that polls change, they claim she is a weak candidate. That's pure opinion and nothing more. She'll carry California and New York in the blink of a big yawn. Kasich would go over in California like an overcast, cloudy day at the beach. His crowds would be even smaller. He's still trying to find charisma in Webster's.

With the exception of the well-despised Reagan, the last candidate the Grand Old Party had with charisma was Abraham Lincoln. The point here being: if you have the conviction to vote Trump, vote it. If you don't, vote it. But whatever you do don't stand idle or voiceless if at the convention they try some shenanigans to stifle your voice assuming he garners the necessary delegates.

Like it or not Trump is playing by the house rules and that's what irritates them so much. He besting them at their own Party concocted game. That would anger a lot of preachers if there are any left.

Here's one of their brilliant paragraphs: "Our point is, after the last three months, whoever wins the nomination will inherit a divided GOP and have a reduced chance if winning." (What's new. The GOP has been divide at least going back to Goldwater.) This again is part and package of their arrogance and contempt. They think they're only ones who can read

The editorialist concludes with this piece of work. "Then again, if the nomination goes to an open convention (You can almost hear the writer praying in background.), and if neither Mr. Cruz nor Mr. Trump can get a majority, perhaps (On that perhaps we thought we heard the sound of some Rosary beads.), the GOP delegates will want to consider a nominee who can beat Mrs. Clinton"

If they had that don't you think they would have rolled him or her out by now.

Here is his final gem. "Sounds crazy, we know, but isn't the purpose of a political party to win elections?"

Yes, it is but not by steamrolling the system because you dislike the guy who won playing by your rules, not to mention the millions of voters, like them or not, who voted their choice.

Maybe it's time, like many are suggesting, for the Grand Old Party to be honored with a grand old New Orleans style funeral. If that happens, it ought not be that long before a similar procession takes place for the Donkey crowd.

And that's really to millions of decent Americans--call them whatever names you want--what this election is really about. Drop the ball at your own peril.