A Contested Convention Won’t Fix The GOP

[CanonRay]

Political conventions are meant to be unifying events, rallying voters around their party and their presidential nominee ahead of the general election.

If the GOP primary ends in a contested convention, though, pretty much any possible outcome will leave a sizable chunk of the party dispirited.

It’s not just that front-runner Donald Trump is startlingly unpopular for a leading candidate, with nearly half of voters in many state primaries saying they’d be unsatisfied to see him elected. If Trump fails to collect the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination outright, he may actually be the least-divisive option for the party.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-contested-convention-poll_us_56f30908e4b0c3ef5217d8e5

[sharp_stick]

1. I hope it's a bloodbath

If we're lucky this election cycle will cripple the GOP for years. Maybe even long enough that we can make some headway on retaking the house.

[hughee99]

2. For the GOP, Donald Trump isn't the real problem. The real issue is what lead their voters

to pick him.

[BillZBubb]

3. Yes! Trump and Cruz are both symptoms of how sick the republicans have become.

They are merely the expression of that sickness. For years the republicans used code words and dog whistles to get across their intent, but without saying it directly. Trump and Cruz vocalize what has been there all along. Their sin is saying out loud what the republicans really believe.

They are the end result of Faux News, hate radio, and the republican noise machine.

[Javaman]

4. the Humpty Dumpty party...

and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put dumpty back together again.

donald dumpty.

[KamaAina]

5. The only way to fix the GOP is to take it to the vet