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This notion that a brokered convention could be a healthy or “good” event just doesn’t ring true to me. I do not know why Palin thinks that it will be. I see no guarantee that such an event will lead to a conservative getting the nomination. Corrupt people always lift up other corrupt people. It is just as likely that we’ll get a RINO shoved down our throat than it is that Sarah Palin will get it, and this would happen with even less accountability than it would in just winning the delegates the old fashioned way. After all, there will be deals going on behind closed doors, conversations I will not be privy to. Right now, I can at least see what’s going on state by state. I can read the polls. I can debate with people and I can campaign in my home state, or on the internet in my limited way, or I can donate money to my candidate so they can keep on fighting. In the brokered convention... I lose all of that. It gets handed off to a small group of people who will be tackled directly by Establishment propaganda types.

This isn’t good for the country. We must do our best to avoid a brokered convention at all costs, and get a firm front runner immediately.

And as for Palin getting the nod. I don’t see how that can be seen as a good or bad thing. We already have candidates who can express conservatism. The question is, what will Palin’s platform be? If it’s as weak as Santorum’s or McCain’s, her personality itself simply won’t cut it. We need real change in this country, including tax reform, entitelment reform... measures must be taken that will strike a lasting blow against the leftist enemy and reinvigorate our failing country. Now is not the time for the usual solutions that never go anywhere. Now is the time to launch a bold initiative.

That’s another thing. Look at what names are getting shot around. People who are not going to be vetted the way this campaign season can vet them. People who are going to get nominated without a real discussion on their platform. They may not even have a platform when they win it. It would just degenerate into a pure personality contest. Unless I am wrong about how this brokered convention would work, that’s the only conclusion I can come to.

If Palin thinks this stuff is actually positive, perhaps the reason why she has been content to provide commentary as opposed to leadership is because she has bought into this idea of an upset win in a brokered convention when all the other conservatives have “failed”. She would therefore have “no choice” but to take it upon herself. In other words, she would take the spoils, without any of the toil. This is conspiracy theory, of course. But if this really did come to pass... Palin wouldn’t be the person we thought she was, and I wouldn’t support her.

But the fact of the matter is, I wouldn’t support any of the losers who emerged from this brokered process.

The more I think about it, the bigger the tragedy begins to look.

We must defeat Romney, and we must try our best to avoid a brokered convention. Unless I am horribly misguided as to how a brokered convention will work that is.