[irishjuggler]

Liberal heads will explode if Burke is elected. It'd be something akin to the time Jim Buckley won the New York Senate seat on the Conservative ticket (i.e., an uber-conservative, dream candidate somehow pulling off a surprise victory)... times 100.

Do I think it could happen? I don't know. It's not as unlikely as some think, though. This is a more conservative, traditionalist-leaning conclave than the one that elected B16.

[Biggirl]

.....And the old common wisdom rules of not electing a Pope from a “superpower”, even a fading one could simply just NOT apply anymore.