Donald Trump, has shown the bulk of the Republican party that they do not have to follow the same old script for which the press has their stories all most fully written when they come to the hall. The NBC talking heads went on and on about how they "can't believe that people in charge could have known that Cruse was not going to endorse Trump and still let him go on stage". I believe they had no choice. Had they not let him go on anti Trump people (including the "progressives" on this board people would have made a hero out of Cruse. Cruse had a choice swallow hard, and get on board and have a place in the party or commit what the majority of the delegates seemed to see as party treason, He chose the latter. The question is now can he ever recover? Not January, maybe by 2020 or 2024. If Cruse is as smart as many believe, by breakfast he needs to be saying - Why was Gingrich the only one to understand what I said?
And as for all the chatter about Trump leaving the stage and not parading Pence around like is usually done, I thought it showed that Donald Trump does not think of Pence as a little league player who just scored for the first time. In other words, he got out of the way and let an adult man have his moment in the spotlight.
Also I think the republicans may be wearing out the "dirty Hillery is a crook" theme", of course when the primaries started I was almost ready to commit to her.