A brokered GOP Convention – a political party playing Russian Roulette with 5 cylinders loaded.

As the caucus process has went along, Donald Trump has taken more and more states. He seems poised to take the majority of delegates to become the GOP nominee about anytime. And so, recently, there has been increasing talk among the establishment Republicans about a brokered convention. Why? Because “they” don’t want Donald Trump to be the Party’s nominee.

Now, if it so happens that Donald Trump does get the majority of delegates out of the primary process, then – good or bad – isn’t that the will of the majority of Republican voters?

And if that is the case, I could think of no better way for the GOP to disenfranchise its voters than to nullify their votes with a brokered or a challenged convention and try to slip in some GOP establishment twerp like Romney as the “approved” candidate. To do so would send voters a message that their votes really don’t matter after all. Such an action would be saying, if you don’t choose someone we the party bosses agree with, well, we’ll just install someone whom we do.

First of all, to attempt such skullduggery, while perhaps ‘legal’ per election rules, would be as healthy for the GOP as it would for an individual to play Russian Roulette with a bullet in five of the six chambers of the revolver’s cylinder. Secondly, such an action would boldly demonstrate for all the world just how clueless the GOP establishment has become where it concerns its conservative base. Get a clue, GOP; it’s your ineffective leadership these past eight years (at least) that has created the Trump popularity.

It would seem to me that if the GOP desires to simply be a part of the past like their predecessors the Whigs, then a brokered or challenged convention would be the way to go. But, if instead, the GOP is serious about staying a relevant factor in American politics and truly making America great again, then it should give up the idea of fracturing the party even more than it already has been and give up the idea of a challenged or brokered convention.