Brain Trust - Kevin McCullough

Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of The Kevin McCullough Show & Baldwin/McCullough Radio, and a blogger at Townhall. He joined The Matt Friedeman Show to discuss . Below are the "CliffsNotes" of his interview.

Do you have predictions for Iowa?

I don't know if anyone's paying attention, but Ron Paul has now taken the lead in six different polls. 

I think there's some real trouble to the Republican establishment there.

If Ron Paul ends up winning Iowa, it could really throw the race into a tailspin.

There's so many people that I have talked to in the primary states that say his foreign policy stance is so off-the-wall that he'll never chance. But Romney can't seem to get more than 22%.

If we don't see a leader come forward, Ron Paul might actually be the guy who is looked to as the non-Romney.

What's your take on Virginia's ballot?

Rick Perry's group is saying that Virginia changed the rules on them and didn't notify them. But in reality, you cannot expect to run a successful campaign if you don't pay attention to things like this.

Gingrich especially should know how important this is at the federal level.

What I want to know is that if someone who is not Mitt Romney wins Iowa and South Carolina, is Virginia really going to ban them?

Is there any possibility that someone like Bobby Jindal or Chris Christie could jump in?

I don't know if that's as much of a possibility, because you'd have to drum up an entire campaign staff and crew.

What I'm wondering is if we will see something like a brokered convention if this continues to splinter and be the fractured process that we've seen thus far

I think we've had too many debates. Romney has his core support, but no one else has anything sewn up.

And if, say, Bachmann wins Iowa, Paul wins South Carolina, and someone else wins Florida, and we get to the end and no one has secured the nomination, we might see something like a brokered convention.