[SierraWasp]

I don't believe anybody is interested in a "Brokered" convention. In my view conservatives are fervently wishing for something as simple as a "Contested" convention. "Brokered" wreaks of cigarette and cigar smoke in back rooms far away from any semblance of "Transparency!"

I further see the truth being better served by the white hot light of pitched contest right out on the convention floor and a chairperson running the microphone with an iron clad sense of fairness!!!

[smoothsailing]

From the posts on this thread and others on the subject, freepers appear split between brokered and contested, but leaning toward brokered.

A contested convention is much more likely than a brokered one,IMHO, assuming of course that Romney falls short of 1144 on the first ballot.