Nice sentiment. "...everyone needs to forgive the negativity and mend fences..." Really.
Is accusing Cruz' father of being involved in JFK's assassination, on the morning of the Indiana Primary, just "negativity?" Is this just a big joke, and something to be laughed off so Trump can expect the 60% of the GOP voters who DIDN'T vote for him to just fall in line like good Hitler youth?
Trump has ripped the entrails out of my former party. Whatever happens now will be on him. And you. And the rest of his supporters.
Stan I get the disappointment, I do.
But Trump is a symptom not the cause, IMO. The RNC and the Establishment brought this on themselves through their mismanagement of the last several campaigns and a complete failure to do anything positive with recent historic electoral victories. Boehner, McConnell, now even Ryan - they have failed to effectively oppose Obama and the Dem's - and the average Joe and Jill Six-pack have simply had enough. That is why I left the party a year or so ago, spineless weenies. So I get the aggravation and disappointment.
Whatever happens now will be on all of us, what we do or don't do, what we say or don't say - just like it was yesterday, and the day before that - and that includes you, Jihad Jeff and everyone else. If you stay home, or vote 3rd party it is just as much on you as if you voted for Hillary, same as if I stayed at home if your guy had won the nomination and I wasn't happy - or when I (and millions of others) voted Perot the 1st time. And you know if Cruz stayed in and somehow managed to pull ahead on the 3rd or 4th vote in a contested convention you and others would make the same demand of Trump's supporters. Since I have plainly stated I might stay home if Cruz were to 'steal' the nomination I get it, and I am not passing judgement, we each have to act in accordance with our conscience.
Make no mistake though, your guy failed to close the deal with enough Primary voters to secure the nomination or even have any direct legitimate path to the nomination, and that is in the party that by any measure is the best match to Cruz's strengths - that is on him and his campaign and they'll have ample time to conduct a post-mortem.
The only thing I would urge you or others is to not lash out at the voters themselves, they made their choices based on the information they had and in the context of their beliefs, hopes and aspirations - the failure or success, such as it is, is on the campaigns for being able to recognize and speak to those beliefs, hopes and aspirations, or not.
'Gimp