That Wacky Wacky GOP Posted by Michael Cohen

I have pledged to my fellow DA bloggers that after my recent sojourn to snowy New Hampshire I would return to Very Serious Foreign Policy Blogging. But with the possibility of a Mitt Romney, AKA Plastic Man, victory in Michigan tonight I had to have one last hurrah. You see as a political junkie, when I dream at night it is not of world peace or even Dana Perino, but instead of a brokered Republican convention. (Just typing the words gives me goosebumps.)

If the Mittster wins tonight you will have three contested primaries/caucuses won by three different candidates. With Rudy and Thompson still alive in the South the chances of a consensus frontrunner emerging on February 5th seems slim indeed. Let's say hypothetically that Rudy win Florida or maybe New York and McCain, Romney and Huckabee split the rest of the states voting on the 5th. With no frontrunner, a brokered convention becomes a real possibility And can you imagine Romney dropping out for the good of the party or McCain stepping down so his bete noire Plastic Man can get the nomination or the GOP establishment acquiescing to the Huckster?

I better stop typing before I get lightheaded . . . GO MITTSTER: make my dreams come true!