A CAN OF WORMS

If you want to know why the Republican Party is headed for extinction, here's why. Their willingness to stop at nothing to stop the Donald shows you how scared and pathetic they are. But way more important, they're telling all those who support Trump what they want doesn't matter. Besides that, they are calling all who disagree with them ignoramuses, xenophobes, hate mongers, racists and any other nasty epithets they think up.

This should help carry a long memory. This is indeed a watershed moment. They are now showing their true colors. It's their way or no way. Ask yourself if you want to belong to a party like that? And for all you independents and others who get the Trump message or simply want something different from the bores of the past in both parties, understand what this is, a frontal in-your-face assault on your liberty and your freedom of choice.

You can lay down and roll over on your back with all four paws in the air they way they want you to or you stand up fence-post straight, look them steady in their pupils, something they can't do, and let them know you're going to be heard. You're not going anywhere. This indeed is your can of worms. Let's get it opened.

As for the good campaign manager's concern about setting the party back, it would be difficult to set a party back a generation that hasn't been inclusive since Abraham Lincoln. In their conceit and arrogance they never expected this. Note the term "unlikely rise" in the story. They took you and your franchise for granted. 

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Donald Trump’s rivals are joining forces to deny him the necessary delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination, the latest display of strife in a convulsive 2016 GOP race.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich issued near-simultaneous statements Sunday outlining an extraordinary compact that may be unprecedented in modern American politics. Under the arrangement, the Kasich campaign will give Cruz “a clear path in Indiana.” In return, the Cruz campaign will “clear the path” for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico.

The arrangement does not address the five Northeastern states set to vote on Tuesday, where Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead. Kasich and Cruz had already retreated to Indiana, which holds its primary on May 3. Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to halt the former reality television star’s unlikely rise.

“Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans,” Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said in a statement explaining the new plans. “Not only would Trump get blown out by Clinton or Sanders, but having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation.”