JEB! 2016 coronation would be in America's "convention hell"

If you are looking to hold your sales convention in a city that desperately needs the convention business, and where you can get it cheap, Cleveland is the quintessential choice. The city is trying to gentrify its old, combustible image with microbreweries, and renovated downtown warehouse apartments, etc., but the standard joke has been, "who would go to Cleveland unless they had to."

In 2016 all the tea party rubes, and the flower of the GOP establishment will have go there to sample the local brews, and perhaps nominate the third Bush for president.  There is a story here.  The GOP met in Cleveland back in 1936 to nominate a pliable establishment alternative to Franklin Roosevelt, and got one of the worst electoral drubbings in party history.  JEB! is certain to outperform Alf Landon in 2016, but a third Bush could conceivably turn in the worst GOP showing since Barry Goldwater in 1964, if recent polling is any indicator.

For GOP, specter of 1936 hovers over Cleveland 2016