December 12, 2007
The risks of a brokered GOP convention
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
The good news is that none of the Republicans currently running for President is actually a plausible President, and that each of them seems to have something about him that's a clear dealbreaker in terms of getting the nomination: Giuliani's women, vulgar corruption, and lack of culture war-cred, Romney's religion and flip-flopping, McCain's positions on immigration and campaign finance, Huckabee's protectionism.
The bad news is that this could lead to a brokered convention. The Republicans could come out of a smoke-filled room with a candidate who could never get past the primaries but would be formidable in November: Danforth, Lugar, Whitman, or Kean, for example.
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