Prediction: Someone Else will Swoop in, Nab GOP Nomination (Guess who he means?)

Opposing Views ^ | February 1, 2012 | Mark Berman

[Sea Parrot]

Does the term, “Brokered Convention” have any meaning to you?

That is the way nominations were fought out for decades, so primary coronations be damned.

[Campion]

I can imagine, with great difficulty, holding my nose and voting for Romney in the general.

I won't vote for Bloomberg for anything, even if Obama is the other candidate.

[nascarnation]

holding my nose and voting for Romney in the general.

agree

better a Mormon than a Muzzie

[Political Junkie Too]

...one of the candidates, likely Romney, will have enough delegates to clinch the nomination by April or May.

Then it's clinched, right?

How does one swoop in and take away a clinched nomination? You only go to a brokered convention if nobody wins a majority by the time of the convention, right? Unless the winner of the primaries decides to drop out before the convention, I guess.

-PJ

[2ndDivisionVet]

After the first ballot, a convention can make SpongeBob Squarepants the nominee.

[Bellflower]

We must have someone who is willing to undo what Obama has already done. I can't picture Romney doing that. Newt might. Whatever happens we need a person who will undo the damage Obama has already done, not just someone who will coast over the top of it and cause us to get the fallout when the roosters come home to roost from all of Obama's horrible America destroying decisions. If The USA is to be saved we MUST have someone dedicated to undoing Obama and also capable of taking us forward.

[RoosterRedux]

Might be wrong there...but read this and comment...

Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy

[reasonisfaith]

The guy doesn’t say how he thinks Newt will fall. Newt is red hot right now. He won’t just wither away.

[mbarker12474]

Sheer fantasy. I dunno. If the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate their own Obamacare candidate, they are stupid enough to nominate Bloomburg. First form a circle......

[mbarker12474]

Sheer fantasy.

I dunno. If the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate their own Obamacare candidate, they are stupid enough to nominate Bloomburg.

First form a circle......

[hinckley buzzard]

one of the candidates, likely Romney, will have enough delegates to clinch the nomination by April or May. That’s plenty of time before the convention in late August for Republican leaders and their flock to determine that nobody really likes Romney and there is no possible way that he can beat President Obama. They will go looking for someone else,

Unless someone changes the rules, which would signal open warfare, delegates are required to cast their vote for the designated candidate on the first ballot.

That would be it. Ballgame.

It is mathematically possible that Mitt and Newt could be so close in delegates that the balance of power would be held by Santorum and Paul. In that case we would have a brokered convention, as the first ballot would not yield a majority.

[expat2]

I’m afraid women do not like Sarah Palin, so she is unelectable.

[X-spurt]

Berman must be Tommy Chong in disguise.

[Hildy]

Ridiculous. Romney is winning, fair and square.

[Cicero]

About the only person he mentions as a possibility whom I could support is Sarah Palin.

But I simply cannot imagine that a brokered convention of Republican hacks would choose her.

I think the only way she could enter the race is with a new Second Party supported by the Tea Party, assuming that the GOP convention will probably come up with the worst possible candidate.

Maybe I’m wrong, but the GOP seems to be getting more and more and more resolute about committing suicide, if it possibly can.

I do think it’s true that almost anything could happen this time around, because the Republican hacks are being exceptionally stupid this time—even worse than they have in almost every election over the past several decades—and the base simply will not put up with it again. Not with our country on the edge of destruction.

Well, we’ll see. Meantime, keep praying for a good outcome.

[Toespi]

Romney is acting like a girl who was just named homecoming queen. (looks like one too)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Which means he’s a typical presstitute.

[Tanniker Smith]

At a brokered convention, Palin would come in just after Joe Lieberman with the rank and file and the elites of the party. The Powers That Be have been ripping her for four years, they aren’t going to pick her now.

[Hildy]

So what? After what our system puts people through...he should gloat. And I am no Romney fan.

Why don’t we just put them into the Thunderdome and be done with it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Funny you should mention that. John McCain wanted Joe as his running mate in 2008 and had to be talked out of it by his staff. Then Bill Kristol talked up Sarah Palin.