A lot of the buzz now is about the possibility of a brokered Republican convention — the emergence of some kind of a new conservative political savior that’ll jump into the race and save the party from the often bumbling and unloved former Massachsetts Gov. Mitt Romney or the current anti-Romney favorite, former Senator Rick Santorum. Santorum has already got some GOPers wondering if he’ll prove to the Sharon Angle of 2012.
Is this likely to happen? Increasingly I think the answer is no — that Romney will be the nominee. And I say DITTO to this analysis as to why it won’t.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.