Today in GOP Mayhem

++Paul Ryan said maybe he didn't want the nomination.

++Tomorrow,conservatives meet in D.C. to discuss the possibility of a conservative running as an independent. Bill Kristol says this would say that the GOP made a temporary mistake with Trump and allow the party to get back to normal.

++Business Insider writes that actually Trump has a clear path to the number of delegates to win the nomination because he will be rewarded more than his % of the vote in delegates in the upcoming primaries.

++The Right is going nuts saying the RNC will choose who they want at the convention. This coming was generated because a RNC member said that the media caused the whole problem because the voters don't select the nominee, true party does. Rush Limbaugh fanned this on the Right talk shows.

++In its innocuous meaning it's like saying the American voter doesn't elect the President because they elect electors who then elect the President.

++At its worst, it means the RNC will ignore the choices made in the primaries and select the candidate they want. The donors are actually trying to figure this out.

++Business Insider had a graph showing that Kasich is as dead as Rubio and has no way home. For that manner,Cruz is lightly more alive but not by much.

++President Obama's Supreme Court pick is politics as its simplest--pick the best and most qualified and smoke the opposition out. I wouldn't have selected Marrick Garland but almost everyone would. He is a serious judge who writes meticulous briefs. He really is a moderate and no one really knows how he would decide. Orrin Hatch loves him,he is the cousin of the Republican governor of Iowa, and Grassley used to love him. He has been at the top of the list in Obama's two previous picks. 

++Nina Totenberg says that President Obama made a deal with the Senate Republicans that he would nominate a moderate and they can appoint him or her at the lame duck session after the election. 

++But this has already confused the GOP because Lindsey Graham says you can't have it both ways. The GOP really doesn't have a leg to stand on. 14 Supreme Court judges has been approved in a President's last year in office.

++The vow not to even meet with Garland has  quickly cracked. Mitch McConnell told Garland he wouldn't meet with him or move his nomination to the floor. Grassley says he will meet with him. Collins and Flake said they would m,set with him. Childish really.

++For Garland it's OK because his office is just down the street from the Senate buildings and he doesn't have far to go for his meetings.

++The New Yorker has a nice piece on him by a friend. He writes meticulous briefs and is a conscientious judge. In pre-9/11 days, he would have been approved unanimously. At the age of 62,a major accolade to be nominated--even if you don't make it.