Pressed-Oh-Change-Oh (You Can Still Say It But Don't)

Hot Air's Allahpundit did a bit of,…well, let's call it "creative political visualization," and TMR's most likely scenario was played out:

"Imagine that Jeb falls flat for dynastic reasons, Christie flames out because of Bridgegate, and Rubio can’t get traction as a last-ditch back-up establishment choice. Ted Cruz stuns the world in Iowa and New Hampshire and wins the nomination — and then he loses to Hillary. Where does the party go from there? The base’s longstanding thesis, that the GOP would surely recapture the White House if it put forth a loud-and-proud 'true conservative' as nominee, would be shattered,...I don’t know what happens to at that point,...The idea that the GOP would change fundamentally somehow in order to prevent it isn’t entirely out of left field." 

And - BOOM! - They're gone:

I love that "somehow" at the end, too, because only the most dense are missing these many "colorblind" euphemisms - for the racial obvious - while the rest of us are catching them in a bucket,…