Washington Post reporters Phillip Rucker and Robert Costa reported tonight that the Republican establishment is concerned about the potential for either Ben Carson or Donald Trump to actually receive the party's nomination.
While that isn't exactly news, they did succeed in causing many heads to turn with the following passage:
According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.
Again, this isn't exactly news, because Romney supporters have been anything but quiet in their attempts to entice the former Massachusetts Governor and two-time presidential candidate to take a third stab at a national campaign. However, these aren't normal political times.The Republican Party is deeply divided between fifteen different candidates, which include a self-financed multi-billionaire, several U.S. Senators, a member of the Bush family, and politically savvy outsiders who have thus far outlasted a sitting and former pair of governors.
With such a growing sentiment of despair among the party elite, it's no wonder Romney has been thrown around as some kind of saving grace, especially since a divided convention is well within the realm of possibility in Cleveland next July, and who better to save them....
....oh, according to Nate Silver:
