The two current frontrunners for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency are Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.  Marco Rubio is a distant third or fourth, depending on the primary.  The GOP establishment has not hidden its intention to thwart Donald Trump from securing the party’s nomination.  The latest attempt was to bring out Mitt Romney to speculate out loud that Trump is hiding a bombshell in his taxes.  Romney followed up with a scathing public rebuke of Trump in a speech where he laid out his indictment against Trump.  However, missing from his indictment was his endorsement of one of the remaining candidates.  Also missing from Romney’s speech was what it was that turned him against Trump, since just four years earlier, he sought Trump’s endorsement and sang his praises. The second effort being discussed to prevent Trump from securing the party’s nomination is the so-called nuclear option.  It is the option...(Read Full Post)