I like to propose scenarios that would make good discussions…..

Let’s talk about the upcoming GOP convention.  I know….kinda early for that conversation…..but it is looking like it will be an epic convention…..why?

Easy…as of today our man Donald appears to be unstoppable……

One clear theme seems to be emerging after Thursday night’s debate: Donald Trump is looking stronger than ever:

• Sure, Jeb Bush may have challenged Trump’s idea to ban Muslims during Thursday’s debate, but he did so almost as a “supplicant,” meekly asking Trump to reconsider, writes Jonathan Chait at New York. It’s emblematic of something larger: “Those of us who believed Republican elites would kill Trump’s candidacy out of self-preservation have to face the increasingly plausible prospect that, for whatever reason, they may lay down their arms before a shot has been fired.”

• “That was the question left hanging at the conclusion: Have they all missed their chance to take down Trump?” writes Cathleen Decker at the Los Angeles Times.
• “What was unthinkable a few months ago no longer is,” writes Dan Balz at the Washington Post. “Trump’s durability in national polls and his standing in the early states have forced GOP leaders—and all his rivals—to confront the possibility that the New York billionaire and reality TV star could end up leading the party into the fall campaign against the Democrats.”
• Ted Cruz may have gotten the better of his exchange with Trump over Cruz’s eligibility, but the very fact that Cruz was answering the question at all is a testament to how thoroughly Trump has dictated this primary season, writes Rick Klein at ABC News. He may yet lose, but the debate “revealed the extent to which Trump has already won.”
• “All in all, it was a very good evening for Trump. This late in the game, a single debate is unlikely to drastically change the existing dynamics,” writes Josh Voorhees at Slate. “That, of course, will be just fine with Trump.”

I remember the beginning of the 2016 process…..when was that?  Has it been that long?  Sorry.  In the beginning the media was slobbering all over JEB!….they gave a nod to Rubio and Paul…..but they really felt that it would be a easy ride for the Bush family……they were dead wrong….and now the GOP is sitting there worried that they will have another hung convention…..

Republican strategists who had spoken of a smooth nomination process just a few months ago are now braced for a battle royal at the Quicken Loans Arena. Insiders tell the Washington Post that GOP bigwigs gathered Monday and discussed the possibility of a brokered convention in Cleveland in July. The party hasn’t entered a convention without a clear nominee since 1976, when Gerald Ford narrowly defeated conservative insurgent Ronald Reagan on the first ballot. The Post’s sources say the GOP leaders discussed strategies in case there is no clear nominee this time around and no winner on the first ballot, allowing delegates to shift allegiances in what Reuters reports would be the first brokered GOP convention since Thomas Dewey was nominated in 1948.

A source tells the Post that some GOP strategists argued for a strategy to make sure there was a clear alternative to Donald Trump in the event of a brokered convention, though another official present at the meeting tells Reuters that Trump wasn’t the focus of the discussion. “It was more logistical in nature, not strategic,” he says. “It was more like ‘are you planning for a hurricane?'” A former Mitt Romney adviser agrees that with the field still crowded, talk of a brokered convention goes beyond Trump. “What you’re seeing is the party bracing for a potential Hunger Games scenario where you have a different person win each of the first four primaries and they all have the resources to slug it out until the convention,” he tells the Post.

A contested nomination?  Damn….the media would be jerking off…..they have not had an interesting convention in 40+ years……

Okay people…..would a contested nomination be a good thing…..or just more political games at the expense of the voter?

What say you?