[SnakeDoctor]

I don’t buy it. Paul’s fanatics always seem to have this secret foolproof strategy for winning even though they lost.

On the off chance this is legit ... it ain’t a good thing. I don’t like Romney or Paul — but neither will beat Barack Obama if the Republican Party looks like a banana republic. International embarrassment doesn’t help electoral prospects.

SnakeDoc

[wolfman23601]

A GOP Brokered Convention isn’t nearly the “international embarassment” of what Obama has put us through.

[Vigilanteman]

Ron Paul supporters think they are going to do for the GOP what McGovern supporters did to the Democrat party back in 1972.

Unfortunately, there is one big difference: McGovern actually won a number of primaries back in 1972.

Ron Paul didn't manage to with single primary with the possible exception of the irrelevant state of Maine.

Still, it would be good theater and possibly force the GOP to adopt a couple of overdue rules changes:

1. If delegates wish to abstain from voting for whomever it was they were elected to support on the first ballot, then they forfeit their position as a delegate and are replaced by an alternate. They get to make their statement, but they also get to pay a price for violating their pledge.
   
2. Delegate allocation rules should be changed to award a lot more to states which regularly deliver electoral votes to the GOP at the expense of those which seldom, if ever, do. DC, for instance, deserves fewer delegates than American Samoa since there is a remote chance that American Samoa might someday become a state and actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP. There is zero chance DC ever will.