{"id":4623,"date":"2012-02-28T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2012-02-28T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:13:51","slug":"the-threat-of-a-brokered-republican-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-threat-of-a-brokered-republican-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"The threat of a brokered Republican convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been fearing this for some time. Last weekend, Maureen Dowd said there is talk of a Republican savior emerging. When I mention Jeb Bush, my liberal friends think Duhbya destroyed the brand (as he nearly did America), but look at the loons the party has taken all-too-seriously so far. A friend thinks it might be a general, a hero. Leaving less than 2 months to find the skeletons before the election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/27\/147488008\/michigan-arizona-prepare-for-tuesdays-primaries?ft=1&amp;f=2101090\">Michigan, Arizona Prepare For Tuesday&#8217;s Primaries : NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ROBERTS: Now, I don&#8217;t think most Americans think their kids shouldn&#8217;t go to college for ideological reasons. The effect of all of this, David, is that people in the party &#8211; the governors who were here in Washington this weekend &#8211; are beginning to say maybe we need another candidate; maybe we need a brokered convention &#8211; a wide open convention. Now, those things tend not to happen. But there&#8217;s a tremendous amount of nervousness, particularly with a new poll out today showing President Obama beating any Republican handily and doing very well with independents.<\/p>\n<p>GREENE: There&#8217;s still a chance for a fresh face in the time that we have left, is political commentator Cokie Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/27\/147488008\/michigan-arizona-prepare-for-tuesdays-primaries?ft=1&amp;f=2101090\">Michigan, Arizona Prepare For Tuesday&#8217;s Primaries : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been fearing this for some time. Last weekend, Maureen Dowd said there is talk of a Republican savior emerging. When I mention Jeb Bush, my liberal friends think Duhbya destroyed the brand (as he nearly did America), but look at the loons the party has taken all-too-seriously so far. A friend thinks it might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-threat-of-a-brokered-republican-convention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The threat of a brokered Republican convention<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}