Posted on 07/04/2011 3:09:59 PM PDT by RussP
Perry scares me a bit. He could easily park between moderates and conservatives and pull votes from both - enough to command a lead.
Third, "winner take all" primaries, where all the delegates to the national convention go to the candidate with the largest vote, regardless of how low a percentage of the total vote that may be, should be banned! On the Republican side, this is a big help to RINOs, who are much more likely to finish first in a muti-candidate race and thereby take all the delegates. One party has burned badly by these primary rules already: the GOP in '08, when McCain was the nominee!
No true “Conservative” could vote for Mittens. He is a lying lefty Rhino with the same agenda as every other Progressive in the country.
I am VERY worried about the vote splitting. I think there is a high probability that we are going to nominate someone we really don’t want because we are splitting our votes.
That makes sense to me
By the way, I noticed that you changed my quote from “bitten” to “burned.” Actually, I like that better!
sry, I’m from Texas, Perry has had 12 yrs to pass an anti-illegal issue & hasn’t, plus his forcefulness with the TTC makes me say, “no, like McCain, I’ll abstain.”
I feel if the bloated field leads to Romney because of name recognition, I’ll abstain again.
WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER MCCAIN.
Perry/Bachmann could be a strong ticket. Perry’s not perfect, but Texas seems to be doing better than all the other states.
There is no problem of tea party conservatives splitting votes. Not one to even worry about at all at this time.
It will play out fine. The tea party doesn’t need to be united going into Iowa and New Hampshire. Just look at the results after. It’s possible that all the tea party candidates will be exactly tied every time, but unlikely. These things just have a way of working themselves out.
It also appears that this year, the process isn’t front loaded, which makes it even easier for time to sort everything out.
“I am VERY worried about the vote splitting. I think there is a high probability that we are going to nominate someone we really don’t want because we are splitting our votes.”
Yes, I agree. Vote-splitting becomes an issue as soon as you have three candidates getting a significant portion of the votes. The larger the number of credible candidates, the more likely it becomes that the winner will not best represent the majority. That’s just a basic mathematical problem with our “plurality” voting system.
The other day I was listening to Mark Davis sitting in for Rush Limbaugh. He said something to the effect that the more candidates we have to choose from, the better. He’s a smart guy, but he obviously hasn’t thought this one through.
As I mentioned in the article, we really need to give some serious thought to Approval Voting.
Or maybe the “Tea Party” needs to have it’s own pre-primary primary. Could something like that perhaps be set up on FR?
If the economy is bad, the incumbent loses.
When the party in power has only been in power 1 term, the economy can be a little worse than 2, or 3 terms.
So that’s an advantage for Obama. But the economy is really really bad, and it doesn’t look like the economy is going to be anywhere near good enough to save Obamas job.
*cough* New Hampshire *cough*
We need a Paul Ryan, that tells it like it is & follows through.
I hope you’re right, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Let’s just hope those early states make good choices, or we could be in trouble.
We need a Paul Ryan, that tells it like it is & follows through.
I am MORE concerned that so few conservatives seem to be aware of these potential electoral problems in Senate and House races.
We can survive a RINO win in the presidential nomination, bad though it would be.
But RINO wins in the House and Senate would be a pure disaster- and we all know the Rinos (and Dems) are furious at those ‘10 conservatives!
They’ll do whatever it takes to remove them and/or to block new ones.
By the way, vote-splitting isn’t the only potential problem for conservatives in the Republican Primary election. With no primary challenge to Obama, Democrats are essentially free to register as Republicans and vote in the Republican primary. In states with “open” primaries, they don’t even need to register as Republicans
you are absolutely right, that is why I switched in texas to vote for Hillary barf barf
Gingrich has higher name recognition than Romney.
He seems to be making a calculated decision to not really seem like he’s trying hard at all to win. And that is causing his numbers to fall. Gingrich is fortunate that no votes are being cast now. Gingrich might just be saying to himself “I can’t get the front runner spot. Too expensive. I will just slide down the polls when the polls don’t matter. I’ll let the front runners run negative ads against each other. I’ll just sit there and watch them destroy each other, while they don’t mention me at all. I’m still more famous than all of them, and I’m the only one that has done something good and famous for Republicans. I might not be too many peoples first choice again, but after everybody knows everything about everybody else, people will be asking what exactly makes me, the architect of the Contract with America, so much worse than Romney, or Huntsman, or Perry or any of the other establishment candidates. When South Carolina comes around, which I’ve been saving my money for, and you see me beat Romney there, you might start hearing “comeback kid”.
Running for President on the Republican side really doesn’t make you famous enough to win that first year.
Yup, that was in 1988. Perry was also a state legislator, as a Democrat then. Sometime between 1988 and 1990, Karl Rove got Perry to switch from Democrat to Republican, and Karl Rove was Rick Perrys campaign manager for the Agriculture office.
The tea party will rally around one candidate when they need to. It doesn’t have to be before New Hampshire.
Here’s what seems to be happening. Someone is pushing Perry.
The elites, the Bilderbergs, Globalist NWO types.
I think that they think they’ve got a better chance to bully people before the primaries start than after. Let’s just see who the voters want before we decide anything.
Excellent observation!
The field right now resembles a fashion show of retreads, fakes, and some cheap imitations. The authentic 'real brand' has yet to enter the runway. When she does, everyone WILL NOTICE!
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