[A Texan]

I believe the brokered convention will end up yielding a Beast/Obama ticket. The dem party will try to push this to make sure they get the White House. In the end whether they are on the same ticket or not, the two are politically the same and the same votes that would vote for Obama won’t sit out just because it is the beast and vis versa.

The hippies and idealist effected the ‘68 and ‘72 conventions and no matter what dem ran in ‘80 they would have lost after Carter’s debacle as President. The dems want the presidency and while McCain is a “maverick” and may get some crossover votes it won’t be enough to over take the loss of Conservative votes (unless McCain picks a hell of a VP).

[Blood of Tyrants]

You are forgetting a couple of things.

First, there is practically no way that Hillary can win the nomination without getting a large majority of the super delegate vote. This would totally piss off the Obama voters; worse than the ‘Rats were pissed off in 2000 because this time they will KNOW that they have been screwed. By their own party, even. Under these conditions, there would be very little chance Obama would accept the VP slot.

This would possibly cause Obama to go third party, taking a huge number of ‘Rats with him.

This is good for the GOP.

Second, I don’t think that the Beast would be second to ANYONE. If she was pushing for VP slot, she would have pulled out weeks ago with a behind the doors deal with Obama. No, she is in it to win it by hook or by crook. And she is in tight with a bunch of crooks.