The Twelfth Ammendment

Happy President's Day to you.
I entered military service on President's day weekend, and got out the same four years later. Hey! USAF is military. I shot a gun. Full auto even.

Hopefully, this day next year, we can celebrate having a president we can be proud of.
How we get that president will be interesting.

I was at dinner the other day with the head of the Willow Run Tea Party Caucus, Dennis Moore.
Actually he sat at the table next to Scherie and me at the Big Sky Diner, a situation that has happened frequently, leading to discussions of politics, church and food.
We talked about some of the political activists we knew in common. Dennis carries some weight.

Then we talked about the General Election.
I mentioned brokered conventions, particularly of the Democrat variety, should Sanders and Clinton tie, or should Biden be called on to enter the fray as Sanders rises in the polls.
Should there be three strong Dem rivals splitting the primaries (Superdelegates aside!), the Dems could have a brokered convention.
Who would emerge? I don't know.

As an aside, I believe that the Dems are damaging themselves with Clinton/Sanders as the candidate.
Whichever prevails, the general electorate will not support to the degree the Repubs will rally around their candidate. I could be wrong.

But this talk of a brokered convention brought on another concern of Dennises. Dennis's, Dennis', that Dennis has.

Suppose that Trump ran independent, Or Bloomberg.
Suppose because of a confluence of candidacies that none of the candidates in the general get a majority.
According to the 12th Amendment, should this happen, the House chooses the President and the Senate chooses the Veep.
And they don't have to be among the candidates that ran.
EDIT: Silverfiddle, in comments, corrected me on this.
See his comment below.

Now I generally believe that this would work to our advantage since both chambers are Republican controlled and would probably choose the Republican candidate, as opposed to the liberal candidate.

If the chambers were to change majority party in that next election (heaven forbid),
imagine the call of Democrats to ask us to wait until the next Congress is seated to reflect the will of the electorate, just as we are asking (and rightly so) the Republican Chy to populat (thusambers to wait until the next president can appoint Scalia's successor.

EDIT: BTW, this didn't happen with Clinton/Bush/Perot because although Perot presumably took popular votes from  Bush, he carried no electoral college votes himself.

Any thoughts?