This week's primaries for the GOP: Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii . . . . . all four on Tuesday the 8th.

I am not one who touts the accuracy of polling information,  but I must admit that,  while the polling have been off their marks much of the time,  there have been few surprises when compared to polling results. 

If the polls hold true for tomorrow, the 8th,  Trump is up on Kasich in Michigan . . . . .  bad news for the governor.  Understand that the negative talk over the weekend was all about Rubio,  and,d admittedly,  he did not have a goosd weekend.  BUT !!!  Kasich's weekend was an unmitigated disaster,  coming in 4th in three primaries and third in the remaining. 

Clearly,  this is a three man race (some will argue for a "two man" race) but,  whatever,  Kasich does not have a chance in 800 hells.  His plan is to manipulate the rules of the convention and steal the nomination.  Kascih will angrily argue that "we are a nation of rules,  and if the rules of the convention give me the nomination,  so be it. "  Understand that "process" has Trump on tract to dominate the selection process in the primaries.  It is much more difficult to manipulate "process" than rules.  Of course,  rules dictate process,  but,  to manipulate process,  you must first change the rules. 

Here is a little known fact:  the rules as currently written,  prevent a challenge to Trump (in this case) by any candidate who has not won at least eight primary contests.  Kasich will not mnet that criteria.  Sadly,  Rubio is in the same danger for going forward. 

Nothing is written in stone,  however.  There is a rules meeting before the convention,  and those rules could very well be changed.  If that happens,  know that the party elites still believe they are in power,  that their opinions matter more than the people's,  that they know best. 

I am no Trump supporter and may not vote for him should he win the nomination.  But I am an "independent" and have no allegiance to the Grand Old Party.  If nothing else,  I will waste my vote on a libertarian choice.  That will be easy for me, "wasting my vote,"   because I live in California where my conservative choice does not matter anyway.  Having said all that, I do expect the GOP to play fair.  If Trump wins their primary process,  they should honor that reality.  The GOP has no good alternatives, here.  If they change the rules to get theiur desired candidate,  they simply will have committed political suicide. 

I have long believed that something happens to the synapse process in the brain when one declares herself a liberal.   Well,  obviously,  that opinion is far too partisan to be true.  Apparently you cannot serve as the people's representative and believe that their collective opinion matters. 

Take Obama.  If he has worked for 100 different issues over the years,  90 of them have been against the collective will of the folks.  And that is a demonstrable fact.  Assuming this to be true,  for the sake of argument,  how is it that he is less a leader than what we have seen in GOP leadership since Newt in 1992?  If you are an informed citizen,  you know that the conservative voter has been trashed (not just "ignored") by GOP leadership throughout the Bush 43 years and, especially,  the Obama term. 

Voters have finally reached a breaking point and,  shockingly,  the leadership has no clue as to why they are facing the current revolt,  but,  if they do "get it,"  they simply do not care.