On another note...should this go to convention the question is who are the delegates?..... How much money and deals will be swung around like a lottery winning.....
We are in sad condition when the highest bidder can buy anyone....and everyone has a price.
I saw enough trouble at our local county caucus in Missouri to see firsthand what a brokered convention on a national level would look like — in a county where Santorum won our primary by a huge majority, the Romney people won a majority of the delegates to our district convention because the Santorum people were split and the Ron Paul people managed to divide the vote between moderate Santorum supporters, including most of the county party leadership, and more radical people who had a lot in common with Ron Paul. In St. Charles County, things got so bad that the police were called and the caucus was shut down. The end result is the way delegates voted may have had little to do with the preferences of the people who elected them.
Gingrich is a student of history. He knew what he was talking about when he reminded people of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood's failed bid to become the 1920 Republican nominee. I knew about that uproar long ago because I live outside Fort Leonard Wood and I do my research, but Gingrich was presumably preparing people to understand just what kind of a knock-down drag-out fight a brokered convention would look like.
The chaos at the Reform Party convention with Pat Buchanan is the only parallel we have had in modern politics, and that wasn't even close to what a brokered Republican Party (or for that matter, Democratic Party) convention would be like. The Reform Party convention was a circus sideshow that people knew meant very little. To have that kind of chaos at a major party convention would be a very different thing.
There are reasons why the Democrats pushed so hard to get Obama enough superdelegates to prevent a 2008 brokered convention. The Democrats avoided the debacle of a brokered convention — barely — and Republican leaders have understandable reasons for trying to prevent that now.