It looks obvious

Fred Thompson’s dropping from the Presidential race was expected and unfortunate. It is unfortunate that the kind of conservatism - the type that brought Reagan to the White House and the GOP to win the majority doesn’t have enough appeal in the GOP. It will be more unfortunate if Thompson’s dropping will help to solidified a frontrunner next week. I am looking, with a lot of hope, for a brokered convention and a frontrunner isn’t serving this hope.

I said it in the past, and although I have a good record of wrong predictions I still think that regardless of who the GOP will nominate the next President will be a Democrat. The GOP needs to start building itself, defining its core believes and re-pledge its allegiance to the ideals that attracted the American voters to join the Reagan coalition. A brokered convention, and the need to find a compromise candidate can help starting such process. 

But my interest in such convention isn’t only ideological. Think how fascinating and wonderful display of politic a brokered convention is. Today, with the help of Tzvika, I was found the magnificent story of the 1920 GOP brokered convention - were Harding was nominated after ten rounds,after having support of only 6.7% of the delegates in the first round. Such convention will be much more interesting than the staged conventions we saw in previous elections.

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