Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump

[KamaAina]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/politics/gop-trump.html

The recording that emerged on Friday revealing Donald J. Trump speaking in vulgar and demeaning terms about women prompted extraordinary backlash from Democrats and Republicans, raising questions about whether the Republican Party could dump its nominee at the last minute and find someone more viable a month before Election Day.

While the idea of replacing Mr. Trump has been a fantasy for some “Never Trump” Republicans for months, the reality is that removing him from the ticket at this point would be exceedingly complicated....

“It’s the equivalent of a triple bank shot, really,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a lawyer at Jones Day who was national counsel for the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush.

Mr. Ginsberg said that the Republican Party did not have a mechanism to replace a nominee just because it wants to. The party’s rules state that “the Republican National Committee is hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, declination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate for president of the United States.”

[Warpy]

1. Too late for a lot of places to have paper ballots reprinted

in sufficient quantity for a general election. While they GOP could conceivably flip the ticket, Pence on top and Trump for life insurance/VP, they're not likely to do so.

Here in NM, Gary Johnson will likely get the GOP vote, anyway. He didn't screw up the state as governor and people here despise everything Trump is.

We're living in interesting times, that's for certain. While other elections have been as nasty or even nastier, this one takes the prize for sheer lunacy.