[TheRealThing]

Granny, Kasich has no chance of winning the nomination, so it really makes no sense for anybody to endorse him at this point. Kasich is probably staying in the race and hoping for a contested convention, so that he can bargain for the No. 2 spot on somebody's ticket.

Kasich failed to turn in enough valid signatures to qualify for the Pennsylvania and Illinois ballots. A Rubio supporter filed a protest in Pennsylvania but did so at 5:13 PM on the filing deadline. Nobody protested his candidacy in Illinois, where he was hundreds of signatures short.

I will be very disappointed if Cruz agreed to be Trump's running mate. A Trump presidency would be a disaster for this country and being the VP for a dopey president will not help anybody's political career.

I told my family months ago that there is no way that Trump is ever going to agree to debate Cruz one-on-one and, sure enough, Trump is already talking about the debates being "boring" and stating that there have been enough debates already. He was clueless last night.

Somebody tweeted last night that anybody who was playing a drinking game where they had to take a drink whenever Trump said "deal" was probably already dead.

As bad as I believe a Trump presidency would be, if the establishment maneuvers to deny the nomination to anybody who wins a plurality of votes will set the Republican Party back decades, IMO. Voters will not unite behind Romney or anybody else who has not campaigned and won the most votes going into the convention. If the delegate leader is Trump or Cruz, Reince Priebus and company better not try to rob them of the nomination.

The debates are boring, and they remind me of arm wrestling contests at work or a bar somewhere. Invariably, when you take somebody down, they look all surprised and insist on doing it again. And inevitably they go down again. And it was not Trump who raised his voice in asking "how many debates are enough?" I had been hearing that idea kicked around for at least a week prior to his having mentioned it. But early on, the debates did serve a valuable purpose this time around.

For example, had it not been for Trump, Republicans would yet be groveling in fear of a direct question about any social issue whatever. The non-existent war on women, illegal immigrants, Radical Islamic psycho's who want to kill us, or any of the nauseatingly numerous layers of political correctness in general. For that alone, we owe Trump a debt of gratitude and our respect. And let us not forget, the sudden courage shown by the other candidates along those and other lines of dispute, was modeled first by Mr Trump for them to see and then to emulate.

From what I have seen from those who actually think for themselves and are not just another example of some think tank's pet parrot, there are as many credible supporters of Trump as there are detractors. I don't see how categorical predictions of doom can be attributable to a Trump Presidency at this point.

The plan to steal or otherwise scheme away a Trump nomination is as Hoot mentioned, no doubt extremely ill advised. These little columnists and media types from "The National Review," and the "We'll Tell You What to Think Magazine" will pay the ultimate price in the end. Readership will go the way of the dodo, along with any credibility as perceived by the public, or any respect I may have had for them. I mean, move over Glen Beck, cause company is a comin! The one's behind the attempt to disenfranchise the voters are the same bozo's who were too timid to make a peep when the Dems were steering this ship of state onto the rocks. I've learned my lesson you know, fool me once.