A brokered convention is possible, though highly unlikely. Romney suspended his campaign, thus holding on to his delegates temporarily.
A brokered convention can lead to a completely different candidate than those who ran. It all depends on the smoke filled room negotiations. Romney (and Edwards at the other convention) can still have weight in the decision. If another candidate were available and agreed, he/she could be “brokered into” the nomination.
At this point we agree, there is no viable candidate to meet this challenge and the RinoNC ain’t gonna let it happen.
We have only politicians running for offices and in control of the RinoNC. What we need are citizen/statesmen to run for elected offices.
And finally, someone mentioned that the DNC superdelegate rules were set up for Carter. Actually they were set up because of McGovern in 1972.
The only influence I have left as a conservative is to hope for a brokered convention. In order to help this along, I must publicly state I will vote D for Prez come Nov. Of course in reality I won’t, but that threat is my last option as I see it.
I'm not going to telegraph any punches, try reverse psychology or do anything else to be sneaky (the GOP leadership seems to be doing enough of that for everyone), so when I say that I can't vote for John McCain, I mean it. He can fake right, he can run further left, or he can try and run the ball up the middle; since he has been very public in saying that he does not need my vote, I will be equally public about saying that he won't get my vote, no matter what strategy he and his coterie finally settle upon.
Mr. niteowl77 (an ex-Republican since February 2008, and neither proud nor ashamed of it)