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Is A Brokered Convention In The GOP's Future?
TalkingSides.com ^ | 01/20/12 | CaroleL

Posted on 01/20/2012 10:42:47 AM PST by CaroleL

The GOP primary process isn't going according to the usual script. Longtime frontrunner Mitt Romney is stumbling at just the wrong time and no longer looks like the presumptive nominee, Newt Gingrich is surging again but after so many ups and downs, his prospects seem as unstable as his temperament. Ron Paul keeps raising enough money to remain in the race and play a serious spoiler role in state after state. And Rick Santorum, buoyed by the recent news that he actually won in Iowa, has become the anti-Newt in the race to be the anti-Romney. Could these characters and their campaigns be just the opening scenes in what may be a summer blockbuster - a brokered Republican Convention?

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; mittromney; newtgingrich; sarahpalin
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To: CaroleL
"Ron Paul keeps raising enough money…"


21 posted on 01/20/2012 1:20:24 PM PST by bksanders (Â…tagline redacted by SOPA)
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To: Patrick1
Retro is in!
22 posted on 01/20/2012 1:29:52 PM PST by bksanders (Â…tagline redacted by SOPA)
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To: SuzyQue

Nope. Google it.


23 posted on 01/20/2012 2:26:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: CaroleL
A brokered convention is the last refuge of sour grapes.
24 posted on 01/20/2012 4:15:38 PM PST by Joe the Pimpernel
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To: SuzyQue

Jindal’s parents weren’t naturalized until after he was born. Neither he nor Rubio is a NBC.


25 posted on 01/20/2012 4:19:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: little jeremiah; 2ndDivisionVet

Then we shouldn’t advance either of them as potential candidates.

Thanks for the info.


26 posted on 01/20/2012 6:02:16 PM PST by SuzyQue (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: vooch

Paul is not a constituionalist. He thinks states should be able to allow the unborn to be slaughtered. That is a gross misunderstanding of the Constitution. He also voted for homos in the military, another unconstituional as well as leftist POV. Paul will never win, although he could be a spoiler.


27 posted on 01/20/2012 6:32:51 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: SuzyQue

Even if one of them were the Pefect Candidate, it’s not worth messing with the constitution.


28 posted on 01/20/2012 6:33:54 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: little jeremiah

I completely agree. Rubio in particular, enjoys a lot of support here.


29 posted on 01/20/2012 6:39:06 PM PST by SuzyQue (Don't believe everything you think.)
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