A brokered convention would be awesome. You'd have teabaggers and GOP establishment types slugging it out on the street.

Oh FFS. We haven't even had a primary yet. Here is how it will go down.

1: The Iowa Caucus will be dominated by the conservative candidate with the largest field organization in the state, which is Perry.
2: Romney will win New Hampshire because it's farking New Hampshire, Huntsman will finish a surprising second or third. Thus causing a week of "Omg could Huntsman win the nomination?"
3: After South Carolina, the race will be down to three or four candidates. Cain will gone, so will Newt, Bachmann, and Frothy. They will need money to play in several states at once and none of them will have it since they are all going after the same base, which is also the base Perry has.
4: As the primary season goes on, the Koch PACs and the Rove PACs will step in to pick sides. Thus beginning a proxy war between Teabaggers and old GOP. Both have large sums of money, but only the Teabaggers have the field manpower.
5: Huntsman will become a pest for Romney in the Northeast and Mormon areas, due to his moderate stances that appeal to that small section of GOP voters. We will have talk about Huntsman for VP since he appeals to moderates and democrats.
6: Super Tuesday shows that the GOP base now cares more about purity of thought then winning general elections, as was shown in the 2010 primaries across the country.
7: The dueling Super PACs will pull out all the stops in attacking the other side. Breaking the 11th Commandment
8: There will be several ballots at the convention. Names will be floated forcing the Rove camp to give in to the Teabaggers in order to keep them in the party. In order to broker a peace and salvage a ticket they will pick Perry with a moderate VP of the GOP institutional choosing. Thus hoping that they can out spend Obama with their combined wealth.

tallguywithglasseson: It's going to be Romney with a derp for VP.

If Romney on the ticket is what causes the Teabaggers to flee, what purpose would it serve to put him on the ticket? Teabaggers aren't going to be voting for a VP, they did that with Palin, and they got Obama. Try to put yourself in their shoes and view the ticket from there.

Humean_Nature: WTF Indeed, I like your scenario, but the logic falls apart. Cain will disappear before Perry? After last night's performance?

Politics on a national level is about multi-state field organization. Cain doesn't even have a single state organization. Cain is got into the race to boost his motivational speaking fee and to sell some books. What happened is that he is the only candidate that is putting forth ideas (moronic as they maybe) but they are ideas, and coupled with dissatisfaction with the other candidates, he rises to the top. Once the ACTUAL elections start happening, the weak will be pushed out as money and support flows to candidates that look like they can win the primary.

You are all stuck on this idea that Perry is done because he lost the "smart people who spend all their time watching debates and talking about politics." Since he never had those people to begin with, how could he lose them now?

Humean_Nature: Of course, we're trying to guess the behaviors of decidedly insane people, so whatever.

Think about it this way. In 2010, the GOP base of Delaware nominated Christine O'Donnell over the most beloved Republican in the state's history, the New York GOP base nominated Carl Paladino, the Nevada GOP Caucus nominated Sharon Angle over an incumbent senator. I could list dozens of House races, local races, as well. Those are the people that will be voting in the 2012 GOP primary. Not the media, not the PACs. That's the candidate's market, and may the craziest motherf*cker with the best field op win.

I'd love to see a broken convention in my lifetime. That would be great. The closest I'll probably come is watching the last season of West Wing.

You think if the GOP went '68 Democratic Convention style the cops would be busting teabagger skulls with batons?