Oh, good. The convention in Cleveland is already looking to be as much fun as a border clash in the Balkans. Who gets to be Franz Ferdinand is my question.

"But I can tell you, if we didn't, and if we're 20 votes short or if we're 100 short, and we're at 1100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400, cause we're way ahead of everybody—I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. I think it would be, I think you'd have riots. I think you'd have riots. You know we have, I'm representing a tremendous—many, many millions of people, in many cases first time voters."

He's not recommending this, of course. He's just observing. Nice little convention you've got there, Reince. Be a shame if something happened to it. And then there's this meeting of the minds, so to speak.

Trump and Cruz are betting that their dual dominance in the delegate hunt will permanently box out the Ohio governor, who has no mathematical path to the nomination and is openly pursuing a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. And their aides say Kasich won't even make it to the floor.

I would remind them that John Kasich is the governor of Ohio and, as such, he's the commander-in-chief of the Ohio National Guard of long historical memory. If he wants to get to the floor, he'll get to the floor. Seriously, though, if they think they can ram Paul Ryan through in the face of what's coming, then obvious anagram Reince Priebus has departed for the Land of Nod, never to return.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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