Super Conservative "Weekly Standard" : William Kristol believes in a Republican Brokered Convention with many Deliberations, because no candidate has big support and enough delegates, or someone enters the race belatedly

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Super Republicans are worried about their presidential candidates. - It could turn out that the Republican Convention chooses, on a second or third or fourth ballot, a better nominee.

The Weekly Standard
A Deliberative Convention
By William Kristol
December 26, 2011


A Deliberative Convention


Some excerpts :

It could happen because it’s quite possible no one will emerge from the January primaries with a commanding lead in the delegate count, or a compelling surge in popular support. Four or more of the existing candidates could then continue to split votes—and delegates—through February and March. It would be even more likely to happen if someone new were to respond to a draft and enter the race belatedly, announcing his entry as early as mid-January or as late as early March—missing some primaries, to be sure, but getting on lots of ballots and getting lots of votes in April, May, and June. In any case, it might well happen that no candidate will have a majority of pledged delegates when Republicans enter the doors of the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa in late August.

And a deadlocked convention, which then became a deliberative convention, could be a good thing, because most sentient Republicans, and most conscientious conservatives, suspect we can do better than the current field.

It may not happen. The delegates in Tampa may end up doing what delegates at recent conventions have done, rubber-stamping a nominee and serving as props in a TV show. But a rush to judgment by political elites and premature closure of the nominating process hasn’t served Republicans, or conservatives, particularly well in the last several election cycles.

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