[Dean's World] Dave Price: A Rudy McRompson Administration?

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Posted by Dave Price:
A Rudy McRompson Administration?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1200511273.shtml


   In an increasingly likely brokered GOP convention, it could happen,
   [1]says Jay Cost:

     Another complicating factor is that patronage is no longer an
     emollient. For instance, how would you "buy off" 500 or so die-hard
     Romney delegates? In this age, the party lacks patronage resources
     to give them consolation prizes. And, for that matter, Romney
     delegates would probably not want anything except a Romney
     nomination. It is unclear to me how one candidate could negotiate
     any deals except by offering the vice-presidency to one of the
     losers - which probably would do little good if the delegates are
     split roughly equal among three or more candidates. It is easy to
     envision a cycle. The Romney people buy off the Guiliani people by
     making Guiliani the vice-presidential nominee. That leaves the
     McCain people out in the cold, so they offer Guliani the
     presidential nomination if he makes McCain the secretary of state.
     The Romney people respond by offering McCain the top spot if Romney
     can have the veep position. And so on.

   That would certainly make for a weird general election.
   Read the whole thing. There's some great detail there on the arcane
   delegation process as well.

References

   1. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2008/01/looking_ahead_to_the_republica.html