Posted on 01/22/2008 8:38:59 PM PST by neverdem
Well I think we need to wait and see if someone has enough delegates after all the state elections first. First one to 1078 will be the nominee. Can’t really change the rules after they are made. If a person does not have enough delegates then a convention is the way to go.
BTTT for later.
Vote in the primaries so that none of them have the required number. These guys are for the birds.
Well, if you are social conservative, why would you vote for any of the three frontrunners?
It’s like the GOP has decided they can safely diss their most motivated and cohesive voting bloc....and it’s going to come back and bite them.
Wasted rant.
There will NOT be a brokered convention. No point pining for it, as it would end up just getting Hillary elected anyway. We are better off without it.
But it won’t happen. Here’s why.
Florida is winner take all. McCain is in the lead, Romney is #2. If Romney wins, he will have a clear majority of delegates so far and will have the momentum to take many states including California, and will have the money to effectively be the only one funding a candidacy through the latter primaries. With no competition, he can easily rack up the needed wins.
If McCain wins, he wont have a majority of delegates immediately, but will sweep the board on Feb 5th and get enough to be on the way to a majority.
Either Mitt Romney or John McCain will pick up most of the delegates by March and will be the nominee.
Oh, and Huck has zero chance and Rudy has zero chance. They are fading in polls as we speak and as people recognize that this is a two man race soon to be a 1 man race.
Pick the better of those two and stand by your man. One of them will be the nominee.
End of story.
"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?"
Thompson exuded diffidence.
Where is the updated list of delegates each candidate has so far? I can’t find the link I had for it....thanks in advance
Romney will be fine, despite the hysterics of some blinded Romney-haters on FR.
He has more conservative support in the media, on TV, talk radio, and in the Republican base than anyone else.
He is already leading the popular vote, the delegate vote, and the number of state wins.
So, he made a few dumb statements two decades ago which have been twisted and distorted by hysterical romney-haters. Big Deal.
Just think if all conservatives demanded purity from birth till today --- the conservative movement would be dead in the water because NO ONE is 100% acceptable to everyone else.
Romney will attract women, minorities, the intelligent, whites, blacks, Hispanics, and everyone else -- especially once people get a whiff of Hillary or Bomb-o Brack-a.
No need to apologize. You made good points.
However, I fear a brokered convention for one reason. A losing candidate (or their supporters) will likely go public, claiming that the nomination was finagled (sp?) away from them via unseemly methods.
The MSM will jump on that story like white on rice or stink on...well, you know what I mean. I see them trying to portray our nominee as someone who won via underhanded methods which therefore taints them from the start.
Combine that with the possibility of masses of anti-war (and anti-GOP) protestors outside possibly fighting with the police and/or engaging in civil disobedience - and it’ll be like Chicago 1968 all over again.
I have been hoping for a brokered convention for nearly a month now. Best option the GOP has right now...JFK
A brokered convention is where a small group of zealots demands Duncan Hunter be appointed the Republican nominee.
Then the party does down to devastating defeat.
/sarc
“So, he made a few dumb statements two decades ago which have been twisted and distorted by hysterical romney-haters. Big Deal.”
No, he appointed some dumb liberal judges while he was governer. His history with judicial appointments does not bode well for somebody who is supposed to pick the next SCOTUS seat to become vacant. And social conservatives are all about the judges....
well that wonderful bloc kicked themselves in the foot by not going for Fred. He wasn’t super christian enough for them so now the best they can hope for is a mormon. That’s what happens.
Huckabee will be gone after Florida. Giuliani will soon follow (thank God!). Leaves McCain and Romney. Looks like Romney will be picking up the majority of the support from the dropped out conservatives Tancredo, Hunter and Thompson, but surprisingly, McCain is hanging in there. Question will be, which way will Huckabee’s Evangelicals break?
After all of what you have said is done, I still truly don’t see how the final GOP Presidential candidate succeeds in winning on November 4.
If Thompson wanted our votes he could have at least pretended to like us. He didn’t bother to go to the value voters debate - which is what got Huckabee’s momentum going btw - he came out against the Human Life Amendment, he blew off Dr. Dobson, and he made a big deal about not going to church. So, yeah, he ran away from us as hard as he could and we figured that if he is running from us during the primary there is no way we could trust him to be a strong social conservative while in office.
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