Trumps Got the GOP by the Balls - Daily Beast

Deflating as it is, the likely Donald Trump scenario is this: He burns hot for a little while longer. he says something really out there in the first debate that roils up the base but makes Reince Priebus and Karl Rove break out in canker sores. but by the time of the baseball playoffs maybe, his act gets old, and somebody else becomes the Herman Cain of October. He’s not going to be all that competitive in Iowa, so it’s New Hampshire where he’ll need to deliver something. But Trump is different from Bachmann, and even from fellow entrepreneur Cain, in one major respect: He doesn’t give a crap about the Republican Party. He cares about Trump. And don’t forget he has the power singlehandedly to make Hillary Clinton president. He knows it, and you better believe Priebus knows it, and it is this fact that establishes a power dynamic between Trump and the GOP in which Trump totally has the upper hand and can make mischief in the party for months. One, they lack the enormous amount of money needed to pursue that path (pay the lawyers to get them on 50 state ballots, etc. Two, they have a sense of proportion and decency, and they figure that if primary voters rejected them, it’s time to go home. Well, Trump has the dough and lacks the decency. Source: www.thedailybeast.com