re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

“We’ll drop him like a hot rock.”

Except that rock is tied around the GOP’s neck…

A third-party run by Trump is paradoxically the best the GOP could hope for at this point in time. The Presidency is lost to them but having Trump as their official candidate drags down all the other GOP races. If he’s running a third-party campaign against a sacrificial lamb (Ryan will probably say no but McCain is enough of an egotist that he would probably bite, or Palin maybe as top of the ticket) the GOP faithful will vote for them and the down-ticket races, as will some or most of the 3rd-party Trump voters. What they don’t want is an energised anti-Trump opposition who will pull the Dem lever reflexively on everything else after voting “Hell, NO!” to GOP nominee Trump.