You’re overlooking a lot of what I wrote. Media attention for our convention would be an enormous plus. Remember how popular Palin became after her convention speech, even though she came out of the blue? With this much drama at our convention, the ratings would only go up and if we gave good speeches we’d get more benefit from that.
The media will always portray us badly. I don’t base my strategy on how to make the media portray me better, because that’s a pipe dream. But the convention is where we define ourselves without a filter, and a bigger audience for it counts for a lot.
Our candidates are already defining themselves and speaking to the issues. A long primary only helps us do more of that. It helps us in every way imaginable. It makes it much easier for our candidates to give speeches, travel the country and give interviews. All the candidates should simply keep doing that between June and August. Mitt is the only guy who might not do it since he cowardly runs from the media whenever he can, but he’s a bad candidate. Prolonging the process to try and get rid of him is a good thing no matter how we do it.
All this exposure may also give us a better idea of which candidate we should run by the time the convention rolls around. If we pick him now, by August the media could have destroyed him and we would have nowhere to go. All the candidates will be well known by August. Newt is already succeeding at attacking Obama on energy and has him on the ropes. The final nominee doesn’t need to be picked to do all the things you’re saying.
Again, you are making the big assumption that a brokered convention will go smoothly. The dog fights and backstabbing and insider dealing will be all excellent fodder for the media, tabloids and all.The emerging candidate will be bruised and the bruises will show. This thing needs to end and as Gingrich himself and others have said we’d in the end all unite with the one who has the magic number of delegates. As what happens, third candidates release their delegates. Someone needs to get to the 1440 mark soon. The Palin example you cite simply doesn’t apply here. That was an open seat to the WH. Now we have to deal with the power of incumbency and a fawning media that supports Obama. Despite all the debates and media focus, our prime candidates -Romney and Santorum still trail Obama by 7-9 points and Gingrich falls out of the rear view mirror. Things have changed for 2012.