The Very Presumptive/Presumptuous Nominee, and 3rd Party Gambit -- Touché!
Contents 1. 4/27/16 Hopes Still High 2. 5/3/16 Day of the Indiana Primary – Trump Trash 3. Cruz Drops Out 4. What Now? 5. 5/4/16 Prager, Kristol & Hannity Weigh In 6. 5/5/16 Paul Ryan & the “Presumptive” Nominee 7. On the Democrat Side Executive Summary In this post (including 39 political cartoons to help the medicine go down) I discuss a momentous week, from elevated hopes with Cruz picking Carly as running mate, to the Indiana primary that resulted in the despair of Cruz & Kasich dropping out. With Trump now the “presumptive nominee,” I discuss the dilemma of whether to support such a deficient and left-leaning character. A choice between the indecent and the unindicted. Is it possible to at least influence the GOP nominee towards conservatism? While he seems to insist that the GOP must unify by conservatives getting onboard the Trump train, without any compromise on his part, I am reminded of