Okay.  Just what the hell is supposed to happen if Speaker of the House Paul Ryan loses a Republican Primary to…

the man that the Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is more or less endorsing by default by not endorsing Paul Ryan…

… after the last first-in-land behind John Boehner, Eric Cantor lost to a primary challenger…

Like Brat, Nehlen boasts the support of some major conservative movement figures. Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has endorsed him, Sarah Palin promised to work on his behalf to defeat Ryan (though that has yet to materialize in any substantial way), and Ann Coulter is set to join Nehlen for a campaign rally in Wisconsin this Saturday.

Um.

Nehlen has fashioned himself after Trump in both substance and style, hoping to ride that same wave to his own unlikely victory. In one of his ads, Nehlen carries a box labeled “drugs” across the border and declares, “Cheap Mexican heroin is killing Americans in record numbers, and it has got to stop,” adding Ryan has “failed” at addressing the problem.

  Cool prop, bro!

Actually, watching this political ad, I’m struck by the concluding song.  “Change comes to town, Truth Resurrection”.  Sounds like a twangy Southern Christian Rock song… and it sends a signal to someone, doesn’t it?

Ponder this...

Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party’s presidential nominee dropped out?

Wishful thinking on Republican officials’ thoughts — and probably less likely than even Paul Ryan losing this rae, but since we’re in fabulist land here all around, imagine for a moment… Paul Ryan goes down (Hey!  It happened to Eric Cantor!)… and Donald Trump decides “nay” (Why?  He’s running for a reason, isn’t he?)

… Is Hillary Clinton the new Republican Party leader?

As per Paul Krugman’s attempt to coax disbelieving Republicans who despair of Trump but can’t get behind Clinton…

Oh, I believe it’s fair to say we’re still in “lesser of two evils” mode, and understand, from their point of view… the “evil” of Clinton is a heck of a lot more evil than Krugman is willing to allow.

“Imagine it were Sharpton Versus Santorum“.

And Trump always has the “Supreme Court!” as a “Trump” card.  Perhaps mostly for religious conservatives who steer off from the vulgarism of Trump, and perhaps one other card Trump has for an assortment of Republicans is the theory that the veep, Pence, will be the man really in charge.

Then again… From Alex Jonesland…
Obama is signaling that the globalists are losing and Hillary is falling too far behind for the technocrats to rig the election in her favor.
“The president implored Republicans to un-endorse him and asked what does it say about the Republican party that Trump is their standard bearer,” Real Clear Politics reported. “Obama called on Republicans to repudiate and condemn the party’s nominee.”
In other words, the president is the Wizard of Oz panicking after Trump pulled the curtain to expose the globalists as the evil they are – and not the saviors of humanity they portray themselves to be.

I love the logic of this… that, you know… like, somehow the other political idea — that the game being played by Obama isn’t to try to increase the tension in the Republican ranks, increase the fallout of controversy — for a nominee that cannot be dumped from the ballot — doesn’t slide into view.

Then again, we have an escape clause if everything goes wrong for Trump on Election Day…

The attempt by the establishment media to characterize Trump’s warning that Hillary plans to steal the election as some nebulous conspiracy theory that he has plucked out of thin air is an insult to objective reality.
Hillary and the Democratic Party establishment stole the nomination from Sanders. The fix was in from the very beginning.
Trump’s warning that Hillary will pull out all stops to do the same in the general election is not a conspiracy theory, it’s a pinpoint assessment of the most likely scenario.

I… think what we’re talking about is the establishment propaganda mill, inflecting  the minds of Americans against him.  Or maybe there’s more.  Or, we just roll into the age old diatribe against The System.

… rigged, as evidence by scattered “Establishments” sliding away — the Republicans for Clinton… those Democrats who decided Santorum is better than Sharpton after all — or…